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Match abandoned due to rain
KINGSTON, Jamaica: The first One-day International between New Zealand and West Indies was abandoned for the day at Sabina Park here on Wednesday.
Electing to bat first, the tourists had scored 176 off 49.4 overs. Craig McMillan was the leading scorer from the tourists side with a blazing knock of 69, punctuated with five boundaries off 99 deliveries. Pedro Collins grabbed three wickets by giving away 27 runs.
June 05, 2002 - GMT
NZ post 176 v WI
KINGSTON, Jamaica: Electing to bat first, New Zealand collected 176 runs for the loss of 49.4 overs in the first One-day International against West Indies at Sabina Park here on Wednesday.
Craig McMillan was the leading scorer from the tourists side with a blazing knock of 69, punctuated with five boundaries off 99 deliveries. Pedro Collins grabbed three wickets by giving away 27 runs.
June 05, 2002 - GMT
MacMillan leads NZ revival after shaky start
KINGSTON, Jamaica: Hard-hitting batsman Craig McMillan initiated a recovery after New Zealand had been reduced to a shaky 14 for three by West Indies in the opening one-day international at Sabina Park on Wednesday.
McMillan hit three fours in 75 balls for an unbeaten 49 to lift his side to 93 for four after 30 overs. In partnership with Lou Vincent, who was not out 19, he had shared in a fifth-wicket stand of 56 in 14 overs.
New Zealand had got off to a disastrous start after winning the toss as West Indies fast bowlers Mervyn Dillon and Cameron Cuffy tore through their top-order batsmen on a moist pitch.
Dillon generated both pace and movement off the seam to remove openers Nathan Astle, for one, and captain Stephen Fleming, for no score, in the third and fifth overs respectively.
Astle edged a lifting delivery to West Indies captain Carl Hooper at second slip while Fleming mistimed an attempted pull to Ryan Hinds at square leg. Cuffy then dismissed Nevin in the eighth over, via a catch to Ramnaresh Sawan, before McMillan and all-rounder Chris Harris steadied the innings with a fourth-wicket stand of 23 in eight overs.
But Harris, determined to up the run-rate even further, was then removed by the off-spin of Chris Gayle, mistiming a sweep to Pedro Collins to backward square leg, to leave New Zealand at 37 for four in the 16th over.
June 05, 2002 - 1445 GMT
New Zealand win toss, bat v West Indies
KINGSTON, Jamaica: New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat in the first of five one-day internationals against the West Indies on Wednesday at Sabina Park.
West Indies omitted seamer Corey Collymore while New Zealand gave an international debut to 27-year-old all-rounder Paul Hitchcock.
West Indies: Chris Gayle, Wavell Hinds, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Brian Lara, Carl Hooper (captain), Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ryan Hinds, Ridley Jacobs, Pedro Collins, Merv Dillon, Cameron Cuffy.
New Zealand: Stephen Fleming (captain), Nathan Astle, Chris Nevin, Craig McMillan, Lou Vincent, Chris Harris, Scott Styris, Daniel Vettori, Paul Hitchcock, Daryl Tuffey, Shane Bond.
Umpires: Asoka da Silva (Sri Lanka) Billy Doctrove (West Indies)
Match referee: Wasim Raja (Pakistan)
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