365WCX_1999JUN06

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Sunday, June 6, 1999. World Cup Edition No. 21

IN THIS EDITION:

* Match Report: New Zealand v Zimbabwe * Quotes * Magic Moment * Quick Singles * Full scorecard * Super Six Points Table * Monday's fixture

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FRACTURED WEATHER PATTERNS AND GRIM REALITY FOR ZIMBABWE AND KIWIS

By Trevor Chesterfield

Leeds (England) - England's dodgy weather, not one of the happier blithe commentary points even in this often stirring, if stoic corner of the kingdom where the occasional shower of sleet in June has been known to end a day's play early, may yet claim its first World Cup victim.

While Zimbabwe and New Zealand may be regarded as Super Six lightweights the thought that both can have what slim advantage they have achieved in run rate affected by miserable conditions looms. Messrs Duckworth and Lewis may, today, make their long awaited tournament debut.

Going into the match Zimbabwe had a handsome enough run rate profit of +0.33 while the Kiwis were in the red at -0.40. For the Kiwis the plan was, as it were, to get into the black. When play was curtailed in typical Headingley gloom around 7pm, they were 70 for three, needing a further 106 off 35.1 overs to win.

Should play resume as late as 4.30pm, under D/L reckoning the reduction in overs should be a further 10, meaning New Zealand will have to score at a rate of around 4.70 an over to get the 92 runs needed to win. Rough calculations, agreed, but if Sunday's rain-affected county slog between Glamorgan and Derbyshire can be taken as a guide, anything is possible under D/L.

How can a side can be asked to score one run less off six balls fewer to win a match judge whether the system is fair or not? In any event, under the D/L formula the game was declared a tie. Imagine that happening at Leeds today. Almost as bad as the FLC (fixed line camera) problems which arose in the first round.

And World Cup organising committee bossman Michael Browning knows all about that as well. After weeks of telling the South African firm which invented, designed and marketed the camera system it was too expensive an operation to mount, a month before World Cup '99 was launched Browning had a British company install their own equipment, thumbing his nose at South African expertise. So much for the esoteric background to this argument.

What we are looking at after a day of play that became as flawed and as unpleasant as the Yorkshire weather was a Zimbabwe total out of keeping with their last performance, against South Africa at Chelmsford.

As with their game against England, the Zim batsmen seemed to lose the flair and bubble which was so evident against South Africa.

It was a fractured batting performance: 175 in 49.3 overs with Grant Flower's run out in the third over by Matthew Horne, as nifty a bit of fielding as you are going to see this tournament. The batting followed a similar patchy fashion. Murray Goodwin fashioned a half-century and the skipper Alistair Campbell put together a tidy 40 odd, but the side failed to recover from the moment Neil Johnson was bowled by Geoff Allott.

This bustling Kiwi fast bowler with three wickets added to his growing World Cup haul and reputation and with the speed gun clocking him at 91 mph he was up there with the big names of fire and pace Pretty good stuff for the Kiwis still searching for a replacement for Sir Richard Hadlee; that will have to wait until the next millennium though.

But three for 24 for Allott and Chris Cairns with similar figures at least gave the Kiwis the edge and Allott the tournament's leading wicket-taker with 18 to his credit and a smile or two extra in the dressing room from this hard-working New Zealander.

As for Monday, we will have to wait and see what the weather does.

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QUOTES

Geoff Allott on becoming the joint leading wicket taker in a World Cup tournament: 'Obviously I'm wrapt, but there's a long way to go and certainly my job's not over yet. I'm going out there expecting to get a couple of wickets early,and I've been lucky enough to get that. Also the support from the other guys is great, they're doing the hard work at the other end creating pressure'.

Zimbabwe captain Alistair Campbell on the game situation: 'We're a little bit behind, obviously we didn't bat very well, you have poor days, and obviously its up to us to try and get it back with the ball'.

Campbell on winning the toss and batting: 'It looked a very good deck if you look at the first few overs it was a beautiful batting wicket, so the decision was justified we didn't play particularly well'.

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MAGIC MOMENT

The last ball of the tenth over seemed to be destined for the boundary off Astle's bat. But Heath Streak dived in the covers to his left and took the ball just above the ground two handed. A fantastic catch that has given Zimbabwe a sliver of a chance of winning this game.

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QUICK SINGLES

* Sunil Gavaskar has popped his head above the (presumably short) parapet and fired the first salvo in the war of words before Tuesday's clash between India and Pakistan. Uncharacteristically, mild-mannered Sunny has wound up the Pakistani camp by blaming crowd trouble at Trent Bridge on drunken Pakistanis. CricInfo 365 wouldn't deign to comment on the matter, suffice to say that reader Simon Walker reported that the best thing about last Monday's game at Northamptonshire between Pakistan and Bangladesh was the marked lack of queues at any of the bars.

* Poor Shoaib Akhtar. Blamed by his captain in a post match interview for Pakistan's defeat his figures tell a different tale. CricInfo's analysis of Shoaib's bowling shows that if he did bowl short he wasn't punished by South African right handers on the leg side, or left handers on the off side at all. He conceded only a total of 2 per cent of total runs conceded through the leg side in front of the wicket to right handers and the offside in front of the wicket to left handers. He was most expensive through midwicket to left handers and to third man to the right handers, which suggests that Wasim's field placings were not all they could have been. Hansie Cronje might like to take note too. 59% of Pakistan's runs were Made behind the wicket.

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SCORECARD

ODI # 1475 ICC World Cup, 1999, 3rd Super Six Match New Zealand v Zimbabwe Headingley, Leeds 6,7 June 1999 (50-over match)

Result: Points:

Toss: Zimbabwe Umpires: DL Orchard (SA) and S Venkataraghavan (Ind) TV Umpire: RE Koertzen (SA) Match Referee: PJP Burge (Aus) Man of the Match:

Close of Play: Day 1: Zimbabwe 175, New Zealand 70/3 (Fleming 9*, Twose 0*, 15 ov)

Zimbabwe innings (50 overs maximum) R B 4 6 NC Johnson b Allott 25 32 5 0 GW Flower run out (Horne) 1 9 0 0 MW Goodwin c Parore b Harris 57 90 6 0 +A Flower c McMillan b Allott 0 2 0 0 *ADR Campbell c Nash b Larsen 40 101 2 0 GJ Whittall c Astle b Allott 21 34 1 0 SV Carlisle c McMillan b Astle 2 11 0 0 HH Streak b Cairns 4 13 0 0 AR Whittall c Astle b Cairns 3 6 0 0 HK Olonga not out 1 1 0 0 AG Huckle c Twose b Cairns 0 1 0 0 Extras (b 4, lb 11, w 3, nb 3) 21 Total (all out, 49.3 overs) 175

FoW: 1-10 (GW Flower, 2.5 ov), 2-35 (Johnson, 8.5 ov), 3-45 (A Flower, 10.1 ov), 4-136 (Goodwin, 36.3 ov), 5-148 (Campbell, 41.4 ov), 6-154 (Carlisle, 44.5 ov), 7-163 (Streak, 47.2 ov), 8-174 (GJ Whittall, 48.6 ov), 9-174 (Huckle, 49.1 ov), 10-175 (AR Whittall, 49.3 ov).

Bowling O M R W Allott 10 1 24 3 (1nb) Nash 10 2 48 0 (1nb) Larsen 10 0 27 1 Cairns 6.3 2 24 3 (1nb, 3w) Harris 4 0 12 1 Astle 9 0 25 1

New Zealand innings (target: 176 runs from 50 overs) R B 4 6 MJ Horne lbw b GJ Whittall 35 35 6 0 NJ Astle c Streak b Olonga 20 28 4 0 CD McMillan lbw b Streak 1 9 0 0 *SP Fleming not out 9 17 1 0 RG Twose not out 0 5 0 0 Extras (lb 1, nb 4) 5 Total (3 wickets, 15 overs) 70

To Bat: CL Cairns, +AC Parore, CZ Harris, GR Larsen, DJ Nash, GI Allott.

FoW: 1-58 (Horne, 8.6 ov), 2-59 (Astle, 9.6 ov), 3-65 (McMillan, 12.3 ov).

Bowling O M R W Johnson 3 0 21 0 (1nb) Streak 5 0 25 1 GJ Whittall 3 0 9 1 Olonga 4 1 14 1 (3nb)

Reserve match referee: CW Smith (WI) 4th (reserve) umpire: JC Balderstone Rain stopped play from 11:32am to 2:00pm. An early lunch break was taken during this time. Zimbabwe at this stage were 47/3 off 10.4 overs.

MW Goodwin 50 off 83 balls, 5x4 0x6 Rain made a further interruption to play from 3:39pm to 4:45pm. Zimbabwe were 134/3 off 36 overs. Bad light then stopped play at 7:06pm. The umpires called off play at 7:30 and play would continue on the reserve day.

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World Cup 1999 Super Six Points Table:

P W L NR T Pts Net-RR PCF Pakistan 3 2 1 - - 4 +0.44 4 Zimbabwe 2 2 - - - 4 +0.33 4 South Africa 3 2 1 - - 4 -0.20 2 Australia 3 1 2 - - 2 +0.29 0 South Africa 3 2 1 - - 4 -0.20 2 New Zealand 2 1 1 - - 2 -0.40 2 India 3 - 3 - - 0 -0.51 0

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WORLD CUP - MONDAY'S FIXTURES:

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