DHAKA: Debutant Afghanistan are facing favorite New Zealand bowling attacks in the teams’ ICC World Cup Pool A match at McLean Park in Napier on Sunday morning.

Afghanistan scored 146 runs for seven in 38.4 overs till filling this report.

Javed Ahmadi and Usman Ghani began the Afghan’s innings. Afghanistan began losing early wickets.

Nawroz Mangal contributed 27 off 46 balls. Najibullah Zadran scored 56 runs off 56 balls. He built his innings with seven fours and a pair of sixes.

Samiullah Shenwari and Dawlat Zadran are on the crease now with 35 and 1 runs respectively.
 
Earlier, Afghanistan captain Mohammad Nabi won the toss and decided to field. The match kicked off at 4:00am.

New Zealand, meanwhile, have already progressed to the quarter-finals with four wins in a row. They are playing the match with an unchanged XI

Teams

New Zealand
1 Martin Guptill, 2 Brendon McCullum (capt), 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Ross Taylor, 5 Grant Elliott, 6 Corey Anderson, 7 Luke Ronchi (wk), 8 Daniel Vettori, 9 Adam Milne, 10 Tim Southee, 11 Trent Boult

Afghanistan
1 Javed Ahmadi, 2 Usman Ghani, 3 Nawroz Mangal, 4 Asghar Stanikzai, 5 Samiullah Shenwari, 6 Mohammad Nabi (capt), 7 Najibullah Zadran, 8 Afsar Zazai (wk), 9 Dawlat Zadran, 10 Hamid Hassan, 11 Shapoor Zadran

Umpires - JD Cloete (South Africa) and M Erasmus (South Africa)
TV umpire - SJ Davis (Australia)
Match referee - DC Boon (Australia)
Reserve umpire - RJ Tucker (Australia)

BDST: 0700 HRS, MAR 08, 2015