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Friday, May 28, 1999. World Cup Edition No. 15

IN THIS EDITION:

* Match Report: Pakistan v New Zealand * Magic Moment * Full scorecard * Points table * Tomorrow's fixture

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PAKISTAN TAKE 4 POINTS TO THE SUPER SIX STAGE

By John Polack

Inspired, indomitable and indefatigable it seems, that in today's Group B Match, at this seventh World Cup of cricket, Pakistan's cricketers have yet again destroyed the opposition. The rival on this occasion was New Zealand and the venue was the tiny Derby ground, but such is their level of skill and confidence that minor details like who and where seem to make only the barest differences to the Pakistanis' capacity to triumph.

This was indeed another tremendous day among many for Pakistani cricket in this seventh World Cup. Under a thick, persistently grey layer of Derby sky and in the midst of cold and blustery conditions, they had a topsy-turvy morning with the bat (Inzamam-ul-Haq with a belligerent unbeaten 73, and Ijaz Ahmed an impudent 51 the main contributors), but followed it up with an inspired afternoon session with the ball. Indeed, from the moment that the twin wickets of Cairns and Parore fell to Azhar Mahmood (38/3 from his ten fine overs) in the twentieth over and probably even long before that, a Pakistani win was never in doubt. It was merely the exact size of victory (ultimately 62 runs) which remained the major focus of the afternoon's exertions. Their lethal new ball combination of Wasim Akram and Shoaib Akhtar was again magnificent - the latter perhaps even the more impressive of the two today, his effort in removing openers Nathan Astle (0) and Matthew Horne (1) inside his first three overs reducing New Zealand to a sorry early predicament from which they were unlikely to recover.

Bedevilled by their opponents' spirit and ever-increasing level of confidence, the New Zealanders - by contrast - turned in another disheartening batting effort today. Earlier in the day, it had been an encouraging performance from their bowlers and fielders and they appeared far from out of the game at the halfway mark in conditions - for all of their wintery appearance - which seemed to favour batsmen. Whilst he was far more expensive than usual, Geoff Allott again underlined his value to his team, collecting another four wickets - the timing of all of them proving beneficial to the Kiwis' efforts to frustrate and slow their opponents' scoring rate. But the closest they came to getting anywhere near on level terms with the bat came when Stephen Fleming (69) and Chris Harris (42) added 83 runs for the seventh wicket - by which time the match had essentially long eluded their grasp. The effort of their openers and most of their upper order was again woefully inadequate today, and they face a real conundrum in knowing how to go about repairing what is becoming an all too serious problem at just the wrong time.

Accordingly, it is Pakistan which emerges from this match with the two points, secures first place in Group B, and condemns New Zealand to the uncertainty of a desperate scramble with both West Indies and Australia for the other two qualifying spots which remain available. The Pakistanis, having almost completely reinvented themselves over recent months since Wasim Akram's return to the captaincy, are truly in glorious form. They are men on a mission here and they are now raising real hopes among their understandably jubilant supporters that there may be even more to celebrate in a matter of three weeks' time. What certainly does seem clear tonight is that they will take a power of beating if they are to be denied the opportunity to claim their second World Cup at that particular moment in cricketing history.

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MAGIC MOMENT

Today's magic moment was undoubtedly seeing Shahid Afridi whip his first ball faced, and Dion Nash's forth ball, sailing over backward square leg for a six.

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SCORECARDS

ODI # 1466 ICC World Cup, 1999, 24th Match New Zealand v Pakistan, Group B County Ground, Derby 28 May 1999 (50-over match)

Result: Pakistan won by 62 runs Points: Pakistan 2, New Zealand 0

Toss: New Zealand Umpires: KT Francis (SL) and RE Koertzen (SA) TV Umpire: P Willey Match Referee: RS Madugalle (SL) Man of the Match: Inzamam-ul-Haq

Pakistan innings (50 overs maximum) R B 4 6 Saeed Anwar b Allott 28 25 4 0 Shahid Afridi c Parore b Allott 17 22 2 1 Abdur Razzaq run out (Astle) 33 82 4 0 Ijaz Ahmed run out (Harris) 51 68 0 0 Inzamam-ul-Haq not out 73 61 7 0 Saleem Malik b Allott 8 9 1 0 +Moin Khan c McMillan b Astle 19 17 3 0 *Wasim Akram lbw b Cairns 1 7 0 0 Azhar Mahmood c Twose b Allott 14 12 2 0 Saqlain Mushtaq not out 0 0 0 0 Extras (b 4, lb 10, w 8, nb 3) 25 Total (8 wickets, 50 overs) 269

DNB: Shoaib Akhtar.

FoW: 1-40 (Shahid Afridi, 5.3 ov), 2-51 (Saeed Anwar, 9.5 ov), 3-127 (Abdur Razzaq, 28.3 ov), 4-163 (Ijaz Ahmed, 36.2 ov), 5-180 (Saleem Malik, 38.5 ov), 6-221 (Moin Khan, 43.4 ov), 7-226 (Wasim Akram, 45.2 ov), 8-255 (Azhar Mahmood, 48.6 ov).

Bowling O M R W Nash 10 1 36 0 (1nb) Allott 10 0 64 4 (2nb, 5w) Larsen 10 0 35 0 Cairns 7 0 46 1 (1w) Harris 8 0 47 0 (1w) Astle 5 0 27 1 (1w)

New Zealand innings (target: 270 runs from 50 overs) R B 4 6 MJ Horne c Moin Khan b Shoaib Akhtar 1 20 0 0 NJ Astle c Moin Khan b Shoaib Akhtar 0 6 0 0 CD McMillan c Saleem Malik b Wasim Akram 20 25 3 0 *SP Fleming c Wasim Akram b Azhar Mahmood 69 100 4 0 RG Twose c Inzamam-ul-Haq b Saqlain Mushtaq 13 25 0 1 CL Cairns lbw b Azhar Mahmood 0 4 0 0 +AC Parore lbw b Azhar Mahmood 0 1 0 0 CZ Harris c Abdur Razzaq b Saqlain Mushtaq 45 96 0 0 DJ Nash not out 21 32 0 0 GR Larsen not out 3 4 0 0 Extras (lb 12, w 13, nb 10) 35 Total (8 wickets, 50 overs) 207

DNB: GI Allott.

FoW: 1-2 (Astle, 1.5 ov), 2-12 (Horne, 5.1 ov), 3-35 (McMillan, 10.4 ov), 4-70 (Twose, 18.4 ov), 5-71 (Cairns, 19.4 ov), 6-71 (Parore, 19.5 ov), 7-154 (Fleming, 38.5 ov), 8-200 (Harris, 48.6 ov).

Bowling O M R W Wasim Akram 9 0 28 1 (5nb, 2w) Shoaib Akhtar 7 1 31 2 (4nb, 1w) Azhar Mahmood 10 0 38 3 (2w) Saqlain Mushtaq 10 1 37 2 (1nb, 1w) Shahid Afridi 6 1 27 0 (2nb, 1w) Abdur Razzaq 8 0 36 0 (2w)

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POINTS TABLE

Group B Played Won Lost NR Tied Points Net RR For Against Pakistan 4 4 - - - 8 +0.944 1034/200 841/199 West Indies 4 3 1 - - 6 +0.885 613/151 635/200 New Zealand 4 2 2 - - 4 +0.001 694/178.2 756/194.2 Australia 4 2 - - - 4 +0.766 841/164.4 848/195.2 Bangladesh 4 1 3 - - 2 -1.007 661/200 644/149.2 Scotland 4 - 4 - - 0 -1.594 579/199 698/155

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