It all depended on Rehman, but he did not get hold of an attempted pull shot and Guptill took a safe catch in the deep to put the spirited Kiwis back in the hunt for a place in the last four ahead of their next game against England on Monday.

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The left-hander's century arrived off 179 balls but he had two slices of luck on 70 and 86, with Iain O'Brien failing to hold a return catch and Jesse Ryder dropping a chance at short leg off Vettori's left-arm spin.

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