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NZ Double Wicket Champions

Monday, April 7 2003

An amazing century by Jacob Oram off just 40 balls with 13 towering sixes has seen New Zealand beat Sri Lanka to win the inaugural Double Wicket World Championship in partnership with Daniel Vettori in St Lucia.

New Zealand's results on the way to the championship were:

Group 2 round-robin matches:

Sri Lanka 26 (Mahela Jayawardene 26, Aravinda de Silva -3; Daniel Vettori 3-28, Jacob Oram 0-28) lost to New Zealand 31 (Vettori 42, Oram -3; Jayawardene 2-33, de Silva 1-27) by five runs.

South Africa 34 (Steve Elworthy 19, Allan Donald 14; Vettori 0-20, Oram 0-13) lost to New Zealand 73 (Oram 48, Vettori 21; Elworthy 1-35, Donald 0-47) by 39 runs.

Australia 53 (John Davison 24, Greg Blewett 27; Vettori 0-43, Oram 2-30) lost to New Zealand 57 (Vettori 19, Oram 33; Blewett 1-45, Davison 1-27) by four runs.

Semi-final:

New Zealand 93 (Oram 52, Vettori 36; Adam Hollioake 2-41, Andrew Flintoff 0-70) beat England 40 (Flintoff 9, Hollioake 25; Vettori 7-59, Oram 2-70) by 53 runs.

Final:

Sri Lanka 70 (de Silva 47, Jayawardene 22; Vettori 2-49, Oram 1-50) lost to New Zealand 149 (Oram 106, Vettori 37; de Silva 0-82, Jayawardene 2-84) by 79 runs.

For those of you un-familiar with the rules they can be read here.

Jacob Oram and Daniel Vettori now look towards New Zealand's one-day and test series tour of Sri Lanka coming up later this month.

Posted by James