ICC World Cup 2015: New Zealand vs West Indies 4th quarter-final

ICC World Cup 2015: New Zealand vs West Indies 4th quarter-final - Stats of the match

Modified Mar 21, 2015 14:48 IST

New Zealand have set up a semi-final clash against South Africa in the ICC World Cup with an easy 143-win against West Indies at Westpac Stadium, Wellington, today. Batting first, the Kiwis, powered by an unbeaten 163-ball 237 from Martin Guptill, posted a mammoth 393 runs on the board; in reply, the Caribbeans could only manage 250 runs before being all out in the 31st over. Here are the most important numbers from the match:

#1 Highest wicket taker in WC 2015 - Trent Boult

With 19 scalps to his name, New Zealand’s Trent Boult is now at the top of the wicket-taking charts in the 2015 World Cup. The left-arm pacer picked up the first 4 West Indian wickets – Johnson Charles, Lendl Simmons, Marlon Samuels and Denesh Ramdin – to fall on the day.

Although Chris Gayle was going all guns blazing at the other end, Boult’s unbroken spell of 10-3-44-4 effectively sealed the game in the favour of the home team.

Here is the list of top 5 leading wicket-takers of WC 2015 so far:

Player	Country	Matches	Wickets
Trent Boult	New Zealand	7	19
Mitchell Starc	Australia	6	18
Mohammed Shami	India	6	17
Jerome Taylor	West Indies	7	17
Wahab Riaz	Pakistan	7	16

#2 All time leading WC six-hitter - Chris Gayle

With 26 sixes in 6 matches, Chris Gayle tops the list of six-hitters in this World Cup. He is followed by AB de Villiers at the second spot with 20 sixes.

Player	Country	Matches	Sixes
Chris Gayle	West Indies	6	26
AB de Villiers	South Africa	6	20
Martin Guptill	New Zealand	7	14
Glenn Maxwell	Australia	5	13
Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	5	13
Brendan Taylor	Zimbabwe	7	12

More sixes, More records

Gayle, who hit 8 sixes today, has also displaced De Villiers from the top spot in the list of all-time leading six hitters in ODI World Cup history. Gayle now has 37 to his name as against De Villiers’ 36.

However, in all probability, this should be Gayle’s last World Cup ODI, and with South Africa set to play New Zealand in the first semi-final of the tournament on Tuesday and with age on his side, it is only a matter of time before De Villiers goes past Gayle.

31 sixes were hit today, which is the highest number of sixes hit in a WC match and the second-highest ever in an ODI. At the top of the pile is the match between India and Australia at Bangalore in 2013, which saw 38 sixes being hit by both the sides.

#3 Highest margin of victory in a knockout match

West Indies were bowled out for 250 in 30.3 overs in a chase of 394. The 143-run victory at Wellington is the highest margin for a knockout victory ever in the history of ODI World Cup, beating Australia’s massive 125-run win against India in the 2003 World Cup final in Johannesburg - a match in which the Sourav Ganguly-led team was all out for 234 in response to Australia's 359.

#4 Martin Guptill\'s 200

Martin Guptill’s unbeaten 163-ball 237 is the second highest individual score in ODI cricket history, beating Virender Sehwag's 219 also coming against the West Indies, and the highest in a World Cup match. This is the sixth time a player has gone past the 200-run mark in ODIs; Rohit Sharma (2), Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar and Chris Gayle have done it before.

Guptill also became the only player to cross the 150-run mark in an ODI World Cup knockout match. The previous best was Adam Gilchrist’s 149, which came against Sri Lanka in the 2007 World Cup final at Barbados.

#5 153 runs in last 10 overs

153 runs were scored in the last 10 overs of the New Zealand innings – the highest in this World Cup. South Africa hold the record for the most number of runs ever scored in the last 10 overs of an innings – 163, against West Indies at Johannesburg in January 2015.

New Zealand’s 393 is the highest team score in a World Cup knockout match.

#6 Second highest run-scorer in WC 2015

With scores of 57, 105 and 237* in his last three innings, against Afghanistan, Bangladesh and West Indies respectively, Martin Guptill has turned around an underwhelming start to his World Cup campaign in style. The right-hander is now the second leading run-scorer in the tournament, behind only to Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara – who scored a record 4 centuries on the trot.