Peter Fulton

Peter Fulton will miss New Zealand's tour of South Africa next month after suffering a knee injury

India might even start off as favourites in their first Super Eights match against New Zealand at the Wanderers

The finals finally start next week but the increased importance of the affairs will not change Australian moods

Interesting moments of the day's play on and off the field

Peter Fulton believes New Zealand's final Super Eights match against Australia on Friday will be anything but a meaningless game even though both teams have already qualified for the last four

At some point during this World Cup, Ireland were bound to get a hiding

A sizzling 71-run eighth-wicket partnership helped New Zealand shrug off a start-stop batting effort, enabling them to seal a comprehensive 129-run win against Ireland

Ross Taylor could be fit for New Zealand's next Super Eights match, against Ireland in Guyana on Monday

Peter Fulton is likely to open and Hamish Marshall will slot in at No. 3 in New Zealand's first Super Eights match against West Indies on Thursday

Craig McMillan has added to New Zealand's injury problems ahead of Friday's match against England after suffering severe foot bruising

The allrounder Jacob Oram will go into Friday's match against England backed by the knowledge he can construct a significant innings from any position

Stephen Fleming said New Zealand's task of remaining in form for six weeks would be a challenge but the length of the World Cup meant no side would go through undefeated

New Zealand's injury concerns escalated on Friday with Peter Fulton breaking a finger during the side's warm-up win over Sri Lanka

Upul Tharanga's century was in vain as Sri Lanka slipped to an 18-run defeat against New Zealand in their final World Cup warm-up

Craig McMillan and Brendon McCullum blasted New Zealand to another massive run-chase as they negated Matthew Hayden's 181 and inflicted a cleansweep on Australia at Hamilton. The home team flew to 350 on the back of McMillan's 117 and his 165-run partners

Australia fell from their No. 1 one-day ranking for the first time as Ross Taylor, Peter Fulton and Craig McMillan propelled New Zealand to 337 with an over to spare to secure the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy

Daryl Tuffey is the big World Cup winner from Kyle Mills' knee surgery after being called into the New Zealand squad for the first time in two years

New Zealand survived a tense period immediately after lunch, during which they nearly threw away their tight grip on the match, to clinch a four-wicket victory in the third one-day international at Christchurch

Peter Fulton smashed 64 from 43 balls as New Zealand A eased to a six-wicket win against Queensland XI in a Twenty20 match in Cairns