- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR6.3 Big, big appeal as Conway is caught in front of the sticks. Umpire Joel Wilson gives it a looong look, but says not out. Afghanistan have taken the review. Must say, this looks very close. Was the quicker fuller-length ball that caught Conway right in the crease. He was looking to defend, but the ball misses his bat and thuds into the pads. And the tracker confirms the ball would have crashed into the top of leg stump. Conway saw the first replay and knew he was a goner. Big wicket for Afghanistan first up. 30/120.6 Stunning take Ikram Alikhil diving to his left. He is confident, but the umpires are checking if the ball carried cleanly. If it has, then that is one heck of a grab from the keeper. Oh, it has carried cleanly. Full-length ball outside off stump. Young looks for a drive on the up, gets a thick inside-edge that flies to Alikhil's left. He anticipates well, moves to his left and plucks out a sensational catch one-handed low to his left. Omarzai has 2 for 1 in his first over. 110/320.2 Full, straight and through Ravindra! Ugly cross-batted swat that does not come off for the battter. Was a length ball on the stumps. Ravindra gets across looking to whack it away, misses and sees his middle stump flattened. 109/221.4 And another! What's happening? New Zealand are collapsing and how. Shorter length on the stumps. Michell goes back, hacks the pull but straight to midwicket, who takes a simple catch. New Zealand have lost three wickets in the last nine balls for one run. 110/447.3 Castled! Second wicket in the over for Naveen. What an over it is turning out to be for Afghanistan. Tom Latham tries to scoop this short ball angled into off stump over the keeper's head but can't execute the shot properly and sees his stumps getting rearranged behind. Two set batters back in the hut 255/647.1 Haha! Can you believe it? That's a harmless delivery, a juicy full-toss sprinkled with jelly beans outside off and he powers this downtown but didn't time it well and man at long-off settles underneath the skier, it's Rashid, and pouches it safely in his hands. Third umpire took a look at it but it's not that high so it will remain OUT 254/5Extras10 (lb 4, nb 1, w 5)TOTAL288/6 (50 Overs, RR: 5.76)Fall of wickets: 1-30 (Devon Conway, 6.3 ov), 2-109 (Rachin Ravindra, 20.2 ov), 3-110 (Will Young, 20.6 ov), 4-110 (Daryl Mitchell, 21.4 ov), 5-254 (Glenn Phillips, 47.1 ov), 6-255 (Tom Latham, 47.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Mujeeb Ur Rahman 10 0 57 1 5.70 32 4 2 1 0 Fazalhaq Farooqi 7 1 39 0 5.57 23 2 2 2 0 Naveen-ul-Haq 8 0 48 2 6.00 17 4 0 0 0 Mohammad Nabi 8 1 41 0 5.12 30 1 4 0 0 Rashid Khan 10 0 43 1 4.30 35 4 0 2 0 Azmatullah Omarzai 7 0 56 2 8.00 17 4 3 0 1
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR5.5 TIMBER! Matt Henry has his revenge and Gurbaz has to take the long walk back. On a length with a hint of seam movement into Gurbaz. He is not as forward as he would like to be and just meekly pushes at it. The ball catches the inside-edge of his bat and makes its way through to the stumps. Matt Henry is pumped and why not. He's just become the leading wicket-taker of the tournament. 27/16.1 Leading edge straight to cover. Both openers are out, and Zadran will not get his 1000th ODI run today. Length on middle stump. He was looking to turn it to the on-side but closed the bat face early and can only pop the simplest of catches to cover who runs forward and accepts it with glee. Replays show it was sort of wobble seam delivery bowled by Boult, not the conventional seam-up in-dipper 27/228.1 Caught and bowled? Latham and Ravindra are confident. But the umpire's want to check if that is a bump ball. This is a close one. Was tossed up and full on off. He jams it out but only as far as Ravindra. The third umpire deems the ball hit the ground first, then Rahmat's bat before going to Ravindra. There were multiple replays, split-screens required before umpire Illingworth reached his decision 107/513.6 Another frugal over comes to an end and Santner takes an absolute blinder, plucking it out of thin air. That's a well-directed short ball right onto the body and he goes for the pull, looking a bit ungainly, Santner leaps off his feet, keeping his eyes locked on the ball's flight, backpedaling and swooping to his left, falling like a shooting star and taking a one-handed stunner to send Afghanistan's captain back in the hut. 43/325.4 Boult returns and sends back Omarzai. Just what his captain would have hoped for. Banged in short aiming the body. Omarzai stays leg side of the ball and eyes a pull but is in no position for the shot. Manages only a thin edge through to the keeper Latham 97/430.4 100 ODI wickets for Santner and what an absolute ripper to get to the mark! The ball pitched on middle and leg, drifted just enough to beat Nabi's outside edge and thud into the stumps. Nabi can barely believe how he missed that. All guile and deception from Santner. 125/633.3 Another one bites the dust. Fuller on rather just outside leg stump. Rashid clears his front leg and was looking to whack it over. Skews it of the outside edge of the bat as the ball spoons straight up. Mitchell sprints back from cover and completes a simple catch 134/733.6 Another breakthrough! Hurls down a nasty bouncer and follows him up as he shimmies down leg, he looks away and goes fishing at it, ball stays up for an eternity high into the night sky and then settles in the cozy, secure, big bucket hands of Will Young at deep fine leg 138/834.2 Afghanistan lose another as Naveen tries an adventurous reverse sweep and finds Chapman inside the ring who pockets the catch gleefully. Afghanistan are spiralling now and the resistance is melting away quickly like an ice-cream in blistering heat 139/934.4 Santner delivers the coup de grace! Tossed up on a length, keeping it nice and straight, getting a hint of turn, he doesn't account for the turn and plays an ugly hoick across the line, gets a thick outside edge and Mitchell gobbles it up sharply at first slip as New Zealand register an emphatic 149-run win over Afghanistan! This has been a disappointing show with the bat while New Zealand bowlers proved too hot to handle and broke partnerships at regular intervals 139/10Extras5 (w 5)TOTAL139 all out (34.4 Overs, RR: 4)Fall of wickets: 1-27 (Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 5.5 ov), 2-27 (Ibrahim Zadran, 6.1 ov), 3-43 (Hashmatullah Shahidi, 13.6 ov), 4-97 (Azmatullah Omarzai, 25.4 ov), 5-107 (Rahmat Shah, 28.1 ov), 6-125 (Mohammad Nabi, 30.4 ov), 7-134 (Rashid Khan, 33.3 ov), 8-138 (Mujeeb Ur Rahman, 33.6 ov), 9-139 (Naveen-ul-Haq, 34.2 ov), 10-139 (Fazalhaq Farooqi, 34.4 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB TA Boult 7 1 18 2 2.57 32 1 0 2 0 MJ Henry 5 2 16 1 3.20 22 1 1 0 0 MJ Santner 7.4 0 39 3 5.08 24 3 1 1 0 LH Ferguson 7 1 19 3 2.71 32 2 0 1 0 GD Phillips 3 0 13 0 4.33 7 0 0 1 0 R Ravindra 5 0 34 1 6.80 11 4 0 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Afghanistan , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
14.00 start, First Session 14.00-17.30, Interval 17.30-18.00, Second Session 18.00-21.30
Match days
18 October 2023 - day/night match (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
New Zealand 2, Afghanistan 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 10.0 (Mandatory - 43 runs, 1 wicket)
- Over 6.3: Review by Afghanistan (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - JS Wilson, Batter - DP Conway (Upheld)
- Powerplay 2: Overs 10.1 - 40.0 (Mandatory - 142 runs, 3 wickets)
- New Zealand: 50 runs in 11.4 overs (70 balls), Extras 1
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 50 balls (WA Young 34, R Ravindra 15, Ex 1)
- Drinks: New Zealand - 84/1 in 15.1 overs (WA Young 48, R Ravindra 15)
- WA Young: 50 off 57 balls (4 x 4, 3 x 6)
- New Zealand: 100 runs in 18.1 overs (109 balls), Extras 1
- Drinks: New Zealand - 142/4 in 31.0 overs (TWM Latham 12, GD Phillips 19)
- New Zealand: 150 runs in 32.3 overs (195 balls), Extras 4
- 5th Wicket: 50 runs in 75 balls (TWM Latham 24, GD Phillips 25, Ex 1)
- Over 36.3: Review by Afghanistan (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - JS Wilson, Batter - GD Phillips (Struck down - Umpires Call)
- Powerplay 3: Overs 40.1 - 50.0 (Mandatory - 103 runs, 2 wickets)
- New Zealand: 200 runs in 42.1 overs (253 balls), Extras 7
- GD Phillips: 50 off 69 balls (4 x 4, 2 x 6)
- 5th Wicket: 100 runs in 134 balls (TWM Latham 43, GD Phillips 53, Ex 4)
- TWM Latham: 50 off 67 balls (2 x 4)
- New Zealand: 250 runs in 46.5 overs (281 balls), Extras 8
- Innings Break: New Zealand - 288/6 in 50.0 overs (MS Chapman 25, MJ Santner 7)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 10.0 (Mandatory - 28 runs, 2 wickets)
- Over 0.5: Review by New Zealand (Bowling), Decision Challenged - Wicket, Umpire - P Wilson, Batter - Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Struck down)
- Powerplay 2: Overs 10.1 - 40.0 (Mandatory - 111 runs, 8 wickets)
- Afghanistan: 50 runs in 15.5 overs (95 balls), Extras 3
- Drinks: Afghanistan - 56/3 in 17.0 overs (Rahmat Shah 18, Azmatullah Omarzai 2)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 66 balls (Rahmat Shah 22, Azmatullah Omarzai 27, Ex 2)
- Afghanistan: 100 runs in 26.2 overs (158 balls), Extras 5
- Drinks: Afghanistan - 134/7 in 33.3 overs (Ikram Alikhil 18)
Match Coverage
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Mitchell Santner is only the second NZ spinner after his hero, Daniel Vettori, to 100 ODI wickets
New Zealand's do-it-all man Glenn Phillips shows he can play the waiting game
He can whack, he can bowl, he can keep, he can leap - and he can rebuild an innings on a slow track with his side under immense pressure too
NZ keep perfect record as Afghanistan fall apart in chase of 289
Fifties from Latham and Phillips lifted New Zealand to a competitive score and Afghanistan never really got going in their chase
New Zealand's six lives
It was a forgettable day in the field for Afghanistan with five catches (of which one was a really tough chance) and a stumping missed
Trott, Afghanistan lament sloppy fielding
Afghanistan squandered six opportunities - five catches and a stumping chance - in New Zealand's big win