The best of the finalists
ESPNcricinfo staff
28-Mar-2015
Coming into the tournament on the back of two years of underachievement, Martin Guptill (532 runs at 76.00, 2 hundreds) began the World Cup with a string of starts that hinted at a return to form. No one could have predicted what would follow, though: an ice-cool 105 in a tricky chase against Bangladesh, and an unbeaten 237 in the quarter-final against West Indies, quite possibly the greatest ODI innings by a New Zealand batsman. • ICC