da 888： Roger Twose, New Zealand’s transplanted Englishman, will be a little sorryto see the back of Zimbabwe after his adopted country’s 64 run win in thequarter-finals of the ICC KnockOut at the Nairobi Gymkhana Club on Monday
da fazobetai： Peter Robinson09-Oct-2000Roger Twose, New Zealand’s transplanted Englishman, will be a little sorryto see the back of Zimbabwe after his adopted country’s 64 run win in thequarter-finals of the ICC KnockOut at the Nairobi Gymkhana Club on Monday.In four one-day innings played against Zimbabwe over the past few weeks,Twose has moved progressively through 70 not out in Harare, 64 and 63 inBulawayo to his 85 in Nairobi. It was an innings that won him theman-of-the-match award and set up New Zealand’s 265 for seven, a total whichproved just too much for Zimbabwe who were bowled out for 201 in 42.2 overs.Afterwards New Zealand’s Stephen Fleming became the second captain insidethree days to suggest that a score of around 300 might be par for thisground with its close boundaries, perfect batting strip and slick outfield.Australia’s Steve Waugh made the claim on Saturday and Fleming echoed hisviews.”We thought 260-odd might not be enough,” said Fleming. “With the size ofthe ground and the boundary, 280-300’s a score that’s going to placepressure.”Interestingly, though, Sri Lanka’s 287 for six against the West Indies hasbeen the highest total posted in six matches in the tournament and is theonly score to go above the 260s.Whatever Fleming’s concerns, though, the target set for Zimbabwe was enough.Despite a second-wicket stand of 64 between Alistair Campbell, who timed theball beautifully for his 47 before he was given out leg before to ChrisHarris – much to his evident disgust – Zimbabwe lost wickets too regularlyto mount an effective chase.New Zealand – Adam Parore, mainly – had taken 19 off Henry Olonga’s lastover of the innings, and Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak picked out two mainreasons for defeat.”I think one thing was the last over,” he said. “I think we should havecontained them to about 250 and we lost wickets consistently.”While Carlisle was there, Zimbabwe just about kept themselves in the match,but his dismissal for 67 at 168 for six put New Zealand in the box seat.Fleming, however, was still not confident of victory.”Captaining the side, I thought it was close all the way through,” he said.”It only takes a cameo of five overs of clean hitting and Heath Streak’sshown he can do it. From that point of view it was always game on until itwas over.”In a tournament that has suited batsmen, off spinner Paul Wiseman picked upthe first four wicket haul. Apart from dismissing Carlisle, he also claimedthe key wickets of the Flower brothers and ended things off when MlulekiNkala tried to hit him all the way to the coast.New Zealand’s reward is a meeting with Pakistan on Wednesday in a repeat oflast year’s World Cup semi-final. On that occasion Pakistan swept NewZealand aside, and Fleming picked Moin Khan’s team as the slickest outfit tohave gone on show so far.We shall see whether New Zealand have learned from last year’s mistakes.
