Rain costs Kiwis a win
Sunday, June 27 2004
NatWest Series Match#2
New Zealand vs. West Indies
Edgbaston, Birmingham
June 26, 2004
New Zealand missed out on a win against West Indies in the second match of the NatWest series as rain abandoned play, at a stage when they needed only 43 runs off 44 balls, in a shortened match at Edgbaston on Thursday.
Persistent morning rain meant that the match couldn't get under way until 3 hours past the original scheduled time, the allocated overs resultantly reduced to 35, and eventually 21. New Zealand, however, made a match of it, by dashing their way to 97-2 chasing a revised target of 140 as per the Duckworth Lewis Method, before the final drizzle ruined possibility of a finish to the match.
Earlier, West Indies managed to reach 122-4 in their 21 overs, thanks to a cameo by Brian Lara, which included 23 runs off a single Jacob Oram over, after the openers couldn't get off to a blazing start required for such format of the game. Lara was dismissed is a bizarre way though, hitting his own stumps while attempting a flamboyant backward-facing shot.
The opening match of the series had been enitrely washed out, without a ball being bowled. The next match, the last one of the first round of a total of three to be played as qualifiers for the final between the three participating sides, will be played today between West Indies and England at Trent Bridge.
Match Summary:
West Indies: 122-4 in 21 overs.
BC Lara 36(22), CH Gayle 30(49)
CL Cairns 18-1(4), SB Styris 12-2(2)
Target: 140 in 21 overs (by Duckworth Lewis Method)
New Zealand: 97-2 in 13.4 overs.
HJ Marshall 24*(27), SB Styris 26*(26)
JJC Lawson 17-2(3)
Result: No Result
Posted by Sudeep
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