New Zealand wins their 1st ICC World Cup 2011 match

The Kiwi player are really happy after they blasted in the all the departments of the match.

No doubt, they lost the toss, but it really did not affect the result of the match.

They bowl first and Kiwi bowlers performed a super show down the ground and helped to bowl out Kenya at just 69 runs on the board.

The bowling department was lead by Jacob Oram, and HK Bennett.

During the presentation ceremony:-

Bennett is named out as the Man of the Match: he said, “Been tough for us after the India game. I have been working on the yorker a lot, especially for the Powerplays. Hopefully it won't get much hotter than this for the rest of the tournament. It is pretty tough to get used to.”

The winning captain from New Zealand Vettori said, “Wicket had a bit of variable bounce, which our seamers exploited. some big games coming up, good to start like this. With Mills coming back, there might be some changes for the next game. Nathan has done brilliantly as well for us.”

However, the loosing captain from Kenya Kamande, “Don;t think it was the wicket. It was the areas NZ bowled. We got to be more positive in whatever we do. NZ came very hard at us. We have to learn from this performance today. There are some more games coming up for us.”

New Zealand Beat Kenya by 10 wickets

Here, at the second match played between New Zealand and Kenya, has come to an end.

The results were the as expected earlier. The New Zealand team won the match by 10 wickets.

Earlier, they lost the toss and bowl to the Kenyan player, but thighs were not in the favour of the Kenya.

HK Bennett, the Kiwi bowler, was the most successful bowler of the team, he took four wickets of just 16 runs in his five over spell.

On the other hand, three wickets were taken by JDB Oram and Tim Southee.

Jacob Oram tokk 3 wickets of just 2 runs in his 2.5 overs spell, and Tim Southee took 3 wickets of 13 runs in his 6 overs spell.

From the start of the match, Kiwi bowler were in the attacking mood, and they finally bowled out the Kenya team at just the total of 69 runs.

With just 69 runs on the board, Kenya were never tried to play for win.

And the job was really very easy for the Kiwi openers, Martin Guptill and Brendon McCullum did the rest of the job.

Guptill hit 39 runs with the help of 5x4 and 2x6.

McCullum hit 26 runs with the help of four hits on the boundary line.

New Zealand bowls out Kenya at 69

During the second match of the ICC World Cup 2011, New Zealand bowlers had done o beautiful job after bowling out all the Kenya batsmen for 69 today during the second match of World Cup 2011 at Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.

However, Kenya captain Jimmy Kamande won the toss and elected to bat first against New Zealand in both teams' opening Group A fixture. Kamande said after that toss that the heat was not going to be a problem at the M. A. Chidambaram stadium.

New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori said he expects the track to deteriorate over the day. The Kiwis have chosen to omit Kyle Mills for this match, while Hamish Bennett and Tim Southee are the two frontline seamers.

New Zealand has had a tough time in one-day internationals recently, winning only two of its previous 14 series games. Kenya goes into the game after warning rivals it was aiming to cause a few upsets at the tournament, having memorably reached the semifinals in 2003.

Teams:

Kenya: Alex Obanda, Seren Waters, Collins Obuya, Steve Tikolo, Morris Ouma, Rakep Patel, Jimmy Kamande, Thomas Odoyo, Nehemiah Odhiambo, Shem Ngoche, Elijah Otieno

New Zealand: Daniel Vettori (captain), Hamish Bennett, James Franklin, Brendon McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder, Tim Southee, Scott Styris, Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor.