Afridi bamboozles Kenya as Pakistan romp home

Shahid Afridi took his maiden five-wicket World Cup haul as Pakistan crushed sloppy Kenya by 205 runs in a one-sided Group A match played on Wednesday.

In reply to Pakistan's total of 317-7, Kenya were bundled out for 112 in 33.1 overs.

The Kenyan batsmen had no answer to captain Afridi's tantalising leg-spinners as he ended up with figures of five for 16 off eight overs.

Top scorer for Kenya was Collins Obuya with 47 off 58 balls including three sixes and their highest partnership was the 37 runs struck by openers Maurice Ouma and Seren Waters.

Pakistan, with a little help from a massive extras total, got their batting into top gear to reach a big score.

Akmal brothers Kamran and Umar, Younus Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq all made contrasting half-centuries after Pakistan had got off to an unsteady beginning, stuttering to 12-2.

Thomas Odoyo was the most successful bowler for the Africans with figures of three for 41 but he was also responsible for sending down 20 of the 37 wides bowled by Kenya out of a huge total of 46 extras.
 
Their in-form opener Ahmed Shehzad was dismissed for one and his partner Mohammad Hafeez made nine before Pakistan were able to stage some kind of recovery.

Kamran Akmal and former captain Younus put together a stand of 98 off 110 balls to get the innings back on track.

Kamran scored a steady 55 off 67 balls with five fours and Younus 50 off the same number of balls, reaching the boundary only twice.

The innings was given momentum by Misbah-ul-Haq and Umar Akmal who added 118 for the fifth wicket off 80 balls.

Misbah on his World Cup debut got off the mark with a six off Steve Tikolo and was dropped off the next ball by wicketkeeper Ouma.

He made use of that lapse to hit one more six and a four before holing out to long-on for 65 made off 69 balls.

Umar continued to attack the Kenyan bowling and made maximum use of the batting powerplay when 72 runs were scored for the loss of one wicket.

His attractive innings ended on 71 when he slogged once too often and was held at long-on. He faced 52 balls and hit one six and eight fours.

Scorecard
Pakistan innings
Mohammad Hafeez c Waters b Otieno 9
Ahmed Shehzad c Kamande b Odoyo 1
Kamran Akmal st Ouma b Ngoche 55
Younus Khan lbw b Tikolo 50
Misbah-ul-Haq c Otieno b Kamande 65
Umar Akmal c Obuya b Odoyo 71
Shahid Afridi lbw b Odoyo 7
Abdul Razzaq not out 8
Abdur Rehman not out 5
Extras: (lb 3 w 37 nb 6) 46
Total: (for seven wickets; 50 overs) 317
Fall of wickets: 1-11 2-12 3-110 4-155 5-273 6-289 7-289
Did not bat: Umar Gul, Shoaib Akhtar
Bowling: Odoyo 7-2-41-3 (5w), Otieno 9-1-49-1 (2nb),
Odhiambo 7-0-65-0 (3nb, 3w), Ngoche 10-0-46-1 (1w), Kamande
7-0-64-1 (4w), Tikolo 9-0-44-1 (1nb), Obuya 1-0-5-0

Kenya innings
M. Ouma c Kamran Akmal b Umar Gul 16
S. Waters run out 17
C. Obuya c Ahmed Shehzad b Shahid Afridi 47
S. Tikolo b Shahid Afridi 13
T. Mishra lbw b Shahid Afridi 6
R. Patel c Umar Akmal b Mohammad Hafeez 0
J. Kamande lbw b Shahid Afridi 2
T. Odoyo lbw b Shahid Afridi 0
N. Odhiambo run out 0
S. Ngoche b Umar Gul 0
E. Otieno not out 0
Extras (b 4 lb 3 w 3 nb 1) 11
Total (all out; 33.1 overs) 112
Fall of wickets: 1-37 2-43 3-73 4-79 5-85 6-87 7-101 8-112
9-112
Bowling: Shoaib Akhtar 5-1-10-0 (1w), Abdul Razzaq 5-1-23-0,
Umar Gul 4.1-0-12-2 (1nb, 1w), Abdur Rehman 7-1-18-0, Shahid
Afridi 8-3-16-5, Mohammad Hafeez 4-1-26-1 (1w).
Result: Pakistan won by 205 runs
Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

World Cup results, standings

Group A
New Zealand 1 1 0 0 0 2 +7.620
Sri Lanka 1 1 0 0 0 2 +4.200
Pakistan 1 1 0 0 0 2 +4.100
Australia 1 1 0 0 0 2 +1.820
Zimbabwe 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1.820
Canada 1 0 1 0 0 0 -4.200
Kenya 2 0 2 0 0 0 -4.897

Group B
India 1 1 0 0 0 2 +1.740
England 1 1 0 0 0 2 +0.242
Netherlands 1 0 1 0 0 0 -0.242
Bangladesh 1 0 1 0 0 0 -1.740
South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 -----
West Indies 0 0 0 0 0 0 -----
Ireland 0 0 0 0 0 0 -----

Still to play:
Feb 24: South Africa v West Indies, New Delhi (0900)
Feb 25: Australia v New Zealand, Nagpur (0400)
Feb 25: Bangladesh v Ireland, Dhaka (0830)
Feb 26: Sri Lanka v Pakistan, Colombo (0900)
Feb 27: India v England, Bangalore (0900)
Feb 28: Zimbabwe v Canada, Nagpur (0400)
Feb 28: West Indies v Netherlands, New Delhi (0900)
Mar 1 : Sri Lanka v Kenya, Colombo (0900)
Mar 2 : England v Ireland, Bangalore (0900)
Mar 3 : South Africa v Netherlands, Mohali (0400)
Mar 3 : Pakistan v Canada, Colombo (0900)
Mar 4 : Bangladesh v West Indies, Dhaka (0830)
Mar 4 : New Zealand v Zimbabwe, Ahmedabad (0400)
Mar 5 : Sri Lanka v Australia, Colombo (0900)
Mar 6 : England v South Africa, Chennai (0400)
Mar 6 : India v Ireland, Bangalore (0900)
Mar 7 : Kenya v Canada, New Delhi (0900)
Mar 8 : Pakistan v New Zealand, Pallekele (0900)
Mar 9 : India v Netherlands, New Delhi (0900)
Mar 10: Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe, Pallekele (0900)
Mar 11: West Indies v Ireland, Mohali (0400)
Mar 11: Bangladesh v England, Chittagong (0830)
Mar 12: India v South Africa, Nagpur (0900)
Mar 13: New Zealand v Canada, Mumbai (0400)
Mar 13: Australia v Kenya, Bangalore (0900)
Mar 14: Bangladesh v Netherlands, Chittagong (0330)
Mar 14: Pakistan v Zimbabwe, Pallekele (0900)
Mar 15: South Africa v Ireland, Kolkata (0900)
Mar 16: Australia v Canada, Bangalore (0900)
Mar 17: England v West Indies, Chennai (0900)
Mar 18: Ireland v Netherlands, Kolkata (0400)
Mar 18: Sri Lanka v New Zealand, Mumbai (0900)
Mar 19: Bangladesh v South Africa, Dhaka (0330)
Mar 19: Australia v Pakistan, Colombo (0900)
Mar 20: Zimbabwe v Kenya, Kolkata (0400)
Mar 20: India v West Indies, Chennai (0900)
Mar 23: First quarter-final, A1 v B4, Dhaka (0830)
Mar 24: Second quarter-final, A2 v B3, Ahmedabad (0900)
Mar 25: Third quarter-final, A3 v B2, Dhaka (0830)
Mar 26: Fourth quarter-final, A4 v B1, Colombo (0900)
Mar 29: First semi-final, Colombo (0900)
Mar 30: Second semi-final, Mohali (0900)
Apr 2 : Final, Mumbai (0900)