Watch the highlights of New Zealand vs West Indies 21st Match Benson & Hedges World Cup 1992 - Benson & Hedges World Cup tournament of the 21st ODI match played between West Indies and New Zealand at Eden Park, Auckland on 08th March 1992.
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| Martin Crowe celebrates his half-century © ICC / Digital Cricket TV |
Captain Martin Crowe's superb unbeaten 81 and opener Mark Greatbatch's half-century leads to New Zealand convincing five-wicket victory West Indies and make it 5 wins in a row in the 21st match of a Benson and Hedges World Cup.
West Indies scored 203-7 in 50 overs with top scorer by Brian Lara cracked a 52 off 81-balls including 7-fours.
Keith Arthurton struck 40 off 54-balls including 3-fours, David Williams blasted a unbeaten 32 off 24-balls included 5-fours with strike rate of 133.33.
Richie Richardson cracked a 29 off 54-balls included a boundary and Desmond Haynes scored 22 off 61-balls contained a four.
New Zealand best bowler by Chris Harris, Gavin Larsen both captured 2-wickets, Dipak Patel, Danny Morrison and Willie Watson each took one-wickets.
New Zealand chase down the target of 204, finishing at 206 for 5 in 48.3 overs with top scorer by Martin Crowe hit a run-a-ball 81-runs.
Mark Greatbatch struck 63 off 77-balls including 7-fours & 3-sixes and Rod Latham scored 14 off 27-balls included a boundary.
West Indies best bowler by Winston Benjamin, Anderson Cummins both took 2-wickets and one for Curtly Ambrose.
Martin Crowe named Player of the match for his match-winning captain innings of run-a-ball unbeaten 81-runs including 12-fours.
This match reported by REUTERS via The Canberra Times
New Zealand, led by an audacious 67 from Mark Greatbatch and a grandiose 81 from captain Martin Crowe, beat West Indies by five wickets, virtually assuring its berth in the World Cup cricket semi- finals.
Greatbatch's 77-ball innings was fol- lowed by a supremely confident 81 from Crowe as New Zealand overhauled West Indies' modest total of 7-203 with 1.3 overs to spare.
West Indies, which has won the World Cup twice, is now struggling to reach the last four of the competition, with only four points from five matches and three more round-robin games to play.
New Zealand, recording its fifth victory in five matches, has never looked so confident. It started slowly against a New Zealand attack made up mainly of slow-medium seamers, but their pinpoint accuracy has frustrated opponents into throwing away wickets.
Chris Harris, with 2-32, and Gavin Larsen, with 2-41, played key roles but it was the off-spin of Dipak Patel that really shackled the West Indians, his 10 overs costing only 19 runs.
Greatbatch, again beginning the batting instead of regular opener John Wright, who missed the last two games through injury, provided a repeat of the flying start that had stunned South Afri- ca last weekend.
During his assault he had angry words with West Indies fast bowler Curtly Ambrose shortly after smashing him for a straight six.
The left-hander continued his battering until Rod Latham, quiet at the non- striking end, edged an Anderson Cum- mins ball to wicket-keeper David Wil- liams with the score on 67.
Andrew Jones scored just 10 before he edged a catch to Williams, this time off the bowling of Benjamin.
Benjamin struck again three balls later to remove Greatbatch. With the score at 3-100, West Indies was back in with a chance but had not counted on the confi- dence of Crowe.
The West Indies fielding fell apart in the last 30 minutes, with three or four run-out opportunities missed as the 30,000-strong crowd roared every New Zealand run.
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