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Sun Mar 8 AFG 186 (47.4 ov) NZ 188/4 (36.1 ov) Pool A, McLean Park, Napier L W DL Vettori

Samiullah Shenwari 54 (110) & Najibullah Zadran 56 (56) deserve to be knighted. When everyone around them was falling apart, these two gentlemen showed the others a thing or two about batting. 186 was never going to trouble the Kiwi batsmen. We are curious to know what McCullum 42(19) does after he finishes games early. Thankfully for Afghanistan they had their man in the 6th over (he had done enough damage already) else the New Zealand innings would have lasted only 15 overs than the 37 overs it actually did. Ross Taylor 24 (41) on his day could be deadly but nowadays is struggling for form. The McCullum blitz has been saving the middle order until now but come the knockout games and if Bazz fails opponents would fancy their chances against the Kiwis.

Afghanistan : 5 in 1 overs Afghanistan : 6 in 2 overs Afghanistan : 6 in 3 overs Afghanistan : 7 in 4 overs Afghanistan : 7 in 5 overs Afghanistan : 17 in 6 overs Afghanistan : 22 in 7 overs Afghanistan : 24 in 8 overs Afghanistan : 28 in 9 overs Afghanistan : 33 in 10 overs Afghanistan : 35 in 11 overs Afghanistan : 38 in 12 overs Afghanistan : 46 in 13 overs Afghanistan : 46 in 14 overs Afghanistan : 49 in 15 overs Afghanistan : 51 in 16 overs Afghanistan : 53 in 17 overs Afghanistan : 57 in 18 overs Afghanistan : 59 in 19 overs Afghanistan : 59 in 20 overs Afghanistan : 69 in 21 overs Afghanistan : 73 in 22 overs Afghanistan : 78 in 23 overs Afghanistan : 83 in 24 overs Afghanistan : 95 in 25 overs Afghanistan : 95 in 26 overs Afghanistan : 97 in 27 overs Afghanistan : 98 in 28 overs Afghanistan : 105 in 29 overs Afghanistan : 108 in 30 overs Afghanistan : 112 in 31 overs Afghanistan : 113 in 32 overs Afghanistan : 118 in 33 overs Afghanistan : 120 in 34 overs Afghanistan : 121 in 35 overs Afghanistan : 128 in 36 overs Afghanistan : 134 in 37 overs Afghanistan : 144 in 38 overs Afghanistan : 147 in 39 overs Afghanistan : 150 in 40 overs Afghanistan : 151 in 41 overs Afghanistan : 151 in 42 overs Afghanistan : 152 in 43 overs Afghanistan : 159 in 44 overs Afghanistan : 166 in 45 overs Afghanistan : 175 in 46 overs Afghanistan : 181 in 47 overs Afghanistan : 186 in 48 overs 10 20 30 40 50 50 100 150 50 100 150

Daniel Vettori seemed like an Einsteinian formula to the Afghan batsmen - they just couldn't figure him out.

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