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| Scotland's Ryan Watson plays a shot during the ICC World Twenty20 cricket match against New Zealand. REUTERS |
New Zealand warded off an unexpected challenge from rank outsiders Scotland in an rain curtailed seven over cameo in their T20 World Cup tie at the Oval here today.
Put into bat Scotland ran out to score an imposing 89 for 4 in their allotted seven overs at an average of 12.71 runs per over. It all began with Scottish opener Ryan Watson scoring 27 runs in just ten balls while taking 18 runs off Ian O’Brien’s opening over.
However the much experienced New Zealand batsmen planned out their innings against a below par Scottish bowling attack and reached home with six balls to spare making 90 for 3. New Zealand scored 22 runs off J.H. Sanders’ penultimate over.
Scotland 89 for 4 in 7 overs (R.R. Watson 27, N.S. Poonia 27, K.J. Coetzer 33, Ian Butler 3 for 19)
New Zealand 90 for 3 in 6 overs (Brendon McCullum 18, Jessie Ryder 31, Ross Taylor 21)
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