New Zealand beat West Indies by 5 runs in a high scoring thriller at Old Trafford in Manchester and registered their fifth win of this World Cup while West Indies suffered their fourth loss.
Earlier West Indies won the toss and opted to field first and Sheldon Cottrell gave them a perfect start by dismissing both Martin Guptill and Colin Munro for golden ducks in the first over itself. Inform Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor started rebuilding work and continued to score runs at a good rate and added 160 runs for the third wicket. Chris Gayle dismissed Ross Taylor for 69 runs and broke this stand. Williamson continued to score runs for fun and brought up his second consecutive World Cup hundred.
He changed his gears and played some good shots and got out after scoring 148 runs. In the end, Jimmy Neesham and Colin de Grandhomme's cameos helped New Zealand to post 291/8 on the board. Sheldon Cottrell took 4 wickets for West Indies.
In reply West Indies also had a poor start and lost Shai Hope and Nicholas Pooran off Trent Boult bowling and reduced to 20/2 in the 7th over. Chris Gayle and Shimron Hetmyer counter attacked and added 122 runs for the third wicket. Both the batsmen also brought up their fifties. Lockie Ferguson dismissed Hetmyer for 54 runs and triggered the collapse and in next 5 overs, West Indies lost 4 more wickets and reduced to 164/7 from 142/2. Carlos Brathwaite got set and kept scoring runs and added 47 runs with Kemar Roach and 34 runs with Cottrell and brought West Indies back into the match. In the final three overs, West Indies needed 33 runs and Carlos Brathwaite scored 25 of them in Henry's over and the equation came to 8 runs off 12 balls with 1 wicket in the hand.
Brathwaite brought up his maiden ODI ton and he wanted to finish the match with a six but couldn't cross the boundary line and Trent Boult took a good catch and thus West Indies bowled out for 286 runs in 49 overs and lost the match by just 5 runs.
All the major stats and facts from match 29 between West Indies and New Zealand in Manchester
2 - Kane Williamson became the sixth New Zealand batsman to score 2 World Cup hundreds.
Most World Cup hundreds for New Zealand -
2 - Kane Williamson
2 - Stephen Fleming
2 - Nathan Astle
2 - Scott Styris
2 - Martin Guptill
2 - Glenn Turner
5 - Runs win is the second smallest win for New Zealand in terms of runs in World Cups.
Smallest wins for New Zealand in World Cups (By runs) -
3 vs Zimbabwe at Hyderabad, 1987
5 vs West Indies at Manchester, 2019
11 vs England at Ahmedabad, 1996
20 vs West Indies at Port Elizabeth, 2003
29 - Number of ODI wickets Trent Boult has taken in 2019 - the most by any bowler.
Most ODI wickets in 2019 -
29 - Trent Boult
28 - Pat Cummins / Lockie Ferguson
24 - Yuzvendra Chahal / Bhuvneshwar Kumar
23 - Mohammad Shami / Kuldeep Yadav / Adam Zampa
101 - Carlos Brathwaite brought up his maiden ODI ton off just 80 balls. He scored 101 runs off 82 balls in his innings.
148 - Kane Williamson's 148 is his highest and joint seventh highest individual score by a captain in World Cups.
Highest ODI scores for Kane Williamson -
148 vs West Indies, 2019
145* vs South Africa, 2013
123 vs Pakistan, 2014
Highest scores by a captain in World Cups -
181 - Viv Richards vs SL, 1987
175* - Kapil Dev vs ZIM, 1983
171* - Glenn Turner vs East Africa, 1975
162* - AB de Villiers vs WI, 2015
158 - Andrew Strauss vs IND, 2011
153 - Aaron Finch vs SL, 2019
148 - Eoin Morgan vs AFG, 2019
148 - Kane Williamson vs WI, 2019
160 - Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor's 160 runs partnership is the third biggest partnership for any wicket for New Zealand in World Cups.
Highest World Cup partnerships for NZ -
168 - Lee Germon / Chris Harris vs AUS at Chennai, 1996
166* - Martin Guptill / Brendon McCullum vs Zimbabwe at Ahmedabad, 2011
160 - Ross Taylor / Kane Williamson vs West Indies at Manchester, 2019
1026 - Chris Gayle when on 61, completed 1000 ODI runs against New Zealand. He has scored a total of 1026 ODI runs against them.
