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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Guptill sends WI packing

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New Zealand's Mar­tin Gup­till re-wrote the record books and the West In­dies was at the wrong end of it, as the re­gion­al side crashed out of the ICC Crick­et World Cup at the quar­ter-fi­nal stage in Welling­ton, yes­ter­day.

Gup­till scored the high­est in­di­vid­ual score in a World Cup in­nings, get­ting an un­beat­en 237 to lead New Zealand to an amaz­ing 393 for six off their 50 overs. The West In­dies in re­ply had no an­swer and fold­ed for 250 off 30.3 overs - los­ing by 143 runs and they will be re­turn­ing to the Caribbean.

New Zealand mean­while will be mov­ing on to the se­mi-fi­nals, where they host South Africa at Auck­land to­mor­row evening. Gup­till broke Chris Gayle's record of 215 on his way to his amaz­ing knock off just 163 balls with 24 fours and 11 six­es.

Gayle, nurs­ing an in­jured back re­tal­i­at­ed for a while when the West In­dies bat­ted and slammed eight six­es and two fours in a knock of 61 that came off on­ly 33 balls but it was not enough.

Trent Boult open­ing the bowl­ing for New Zealand scalped the first four bats­men to kill off any hopes the West In­dies har­boured of even get­ting close to their score. The West In­dies pan­icked and did not have a plan to chase the huge score and at the end of the in­nings - they need­ed an­oth­er 143 runs with 19.3 overs in the bank.

Ear­li­er, Mc­Cul­lum won the toss and de­cid­ed to take first strike, know­ing ful­ly well that the best part of bat­ting will come dur­ing the day­time. He and Gup­till start­ed off in a rush and Mc­Cul­lum was snapped up won­der­ful­ly well by the lanky Ja­son Hold­er for 12. The cel­e­bra­tion was en­er­getic by the West In­di­ans be­cause the Ki­wi en­gine had been stalled.

Samuels then put down Gup­till a straight­for­ward low catch at square leg with his score on four. This proved to be a very cost­ly mis­take be­cause it did two things, one it made Gup­till play straight from that point and al­so de­mor­alised bowler Jerome Tay­lor.

Gup­till start­ed to feel leather on wil­low and the sweet sound be­came con­ta­gious as Kane Williamson on the oth­er end joined in. They added 62 runs for the sec­ond wick­et to en­sure that the home team suf­fered no hic­cups af­ter their leader was gone. All the while they were build­ing to­wards a fan­tas­tic fin­ish. Williamson left for 33 off 35 balls with five fours and all of a sud­den the West In­dies had got­ten rid of the two south­ern stars on the Ki­wi line-up.

They how­ev­er did not cater for Gup­till as he was fo­cussed on a plan and stuck to it. Re­build­ing start­ed again with an­oth­er ar­chi­tect in the form of Ross Tay­lor and the dream fin­ish was on the minds of the New Zealan­ders again. Tay­lor who found the field­s­men on more oc­ca­sion than he found the gap, stayed with Gup­till and con­tributed 42 runs in a part­ner­ship of 143 runs off 22.3 overs. He got his runs off 61 balls with just two fours but his greater val­ue would have been the com­pa­ny he kept Gup­till.

The right-hand­ed Gup­till with his wife Do­ra watch­ing on from the stands, brought up his sec­ond suc­ces­sive cen­tu­ry of this World Cup off 111 balls with 12 hits to the fence. The pro­mot­ed Corey An­der­son came and went quick­ly for 15 and Gup­till found a great al­ly in Grant El­liot, who looked on fire from ball one. They rat­tled off 55 runs off 19 balls in the may­hem to­wards the end.

Gup­till rushed to his first dou­ble cen­tu­ry in ODIs dur­ing this stand off 152 balls with 21 fours and eight six­es. He then mo­tored on past Chris Gayle's fresh­ly or­gan­ised high­est World Cup score of 215 and to­wards the end put the ic­ing on the "Cake Tin" by be­com­ing on­ly the sec­ond man af­ter Mark Richard­son to hit the roof of the venue.

High­est Crick­et World Cup Scores

237x_Mar­tin Gup­till, New Zealand vs. West In­dies, Welling­ton, 2015

215_Chris Gayle, West In­dies vs. Zim­bab­we, Can­ber­ra, 2015

188x_Gary Kirsten, South Africa vs. Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, Rawalpin­di, 1996

183_Sourav Gan­gu­ly, In­dia vs. Sri Lan­ka, Taunton, 1999

181_Viv Richards, West In­dies vs. Sri Lan­ka, Karachi, 1987

178_David Warn­er, Aus­tralia vs. Afghanistan, Perth, 2015

175x_Kapil Dev, In­dia vs. Zim­bab­we, Tun­bridge Wells, 1983

175_Viren­der Se­hwag, In­dia vs. Bangladesh, Dha­ka, 2011

172x_Craig Wishart, Zim­bab­we vs. Namib­ia, Harare, 2003

171x_Glenn Turn­er, New Zealand vs. East Africa, Birm­ing­ham, 1975

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Score­board

West In­dies vs New Zealand

New Zealand inns

M Gup­till not out 237

B Mc­Cul­lum c Hold­er b Tay­lor 12

K Williamson c Gayle b Rus­sell 33

R Tay­lor run out 42

C An­der­son c Gayle b Rus­sell 15

G El­liott lbw Tay­lor 27

L Ronchi c Benn b Tay­lor 9

D Vet­tori not out 8

Ex­tras: (lb2, w7, nb1) 10

To­tal: (for 6 wk­ts) 393

Fall of wk­ts: 27, 89, 232, 278, 333, 365.

Bowl­ing: J Tay­lor 7-0-71-3, J Hold­er 8-0-76-0, S Benn 10-1-66-0, A Rus­sell 10-0-96-2, D Sam­my 8-0-38-0, M Samuels 7-0-44-0.

West In­dies inns

J Charles b Boult 3

C Gayle b Milne 61

L Sim­mons c Gup­till b Boult 12

M Samuels c Vet­tori b Boult 27

D Ramdin lbw Boult 0

J Carter b Vet­tori 32

D Sam­my c Ronchi b An­der­son 27

A Rus­sell b Southee 20

J Hold­er c An­der­son b Vet­tori 42

J Tay­lor c Gup­till b Southee 11

S Benn not out 9

Ex­tras: (w6) 6

To­tal: (all out; 30.3ovs) 250

Fall of wk­ts: 4, 27, 80, 80, 120, 166, 173, 201, 221, 250.

Bowl­ing: T Southee 8-1-82-2, T Boult 10-3-44-4, D Vet­tori 6.3-0-58-2, A Milne 4-0-42-1, C An­der­son 2-0-24-1.

Re­sult: New Zealand won by 143 runs.

Man of the match: Mar­tin Gup­till.

New Zealand progress to semi­fi­nals.


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