HAMILTON, February 4: Career-best bowling figures by Daniel Vettori and a fine all-round performance by Chris Harris helped New Zealand to a comfortable 40-run win against Zimbabwe in their One-Day International cricket match today. In reply to New Zealand's 248 for seven, Zimbabwe were bowled out for 208 in the 49th over.SCOREBOARD
New Zealand: L Howell c&b Strang 24, Nathan Astle c G Flower b Strang 49, Adam Parore c Goodwin b Strang 14, Stephen Fleming c Rennie b Whittall 26, Craig McMillan b Whittall 16, Chris Cairns c Goodwin b Mbanqwa 43, Chris Harris not out 52, Dion Nash c Wishart b Streak 8, Simon Doull not out 0, Extras (lb 9, w 7): 16. Total (for seven wickets, in 50 overs): 248
Fall of wickets: 1-73, 2-91, 3-107, 4-144, 5-144, 6-219, 7-240
Bowling: Streak 10-0-42-1, Mbanqwa 9-1-63-1, Rennie 9-0-45-0, Strang 10-0-40-3, Whittall 10-0-39-2, Flower 2-0-10-0.
Zimbabwe: Grant Flower c&b Harris 32, Craig Wishart c Astle b Vettori 37, Mark Goodwin cAstle b Vettori 7, Andy Flower st Parore b Vettori 60, Guy Whittall c&b Harris 12, Alistar Campbell run out 22, Paul Strang c Vettori b Nash 5, Heath Streak not out 16, J Rennie run out 0, Andy Whittall b Vettori 0, M Mbangwa c Cairns b O'Connor 3, Extras (lb 8, nb 2, w 4): 14. Total (in 48.2 overs): 208
Fall of wickets: 1-75, 2-75, 3-90, 4-113, 5-170, 6-182, 7-189, 8-190, 9-191
Bowling: O'Connor 8.2-1-34-1 (w 1, nb 1), Cairns 4-1-10-0, Doull 5-0-21-0, Nash 7-0-24-1 (w 1, nb 1), Harris 10-0-47-2 (w 2), Vettori 10-0-49-4, Astle 4-0-15-0
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