Record breaker Guptill seals win
Martin Guptill celebrates his double hundred

New Zealand 393-6 (50 overs), Guptill 237*, beat West Indies 250 (30.3 overs) Gayle 61, Boult 4-44, by 143 runs.

New Zealand's Martin Guptill made the highest score in World Cup history with an explosive 237 not out against West Indies to send his team into the semi-finals.

The opener hit the ball to all parts of the ground with 24 fours and 11 sixes during his 163 ball innings and now holds a world record to his name.

Guptill hit 137 from his last 52 balls to help his side post 393-6. It wasn't a day for the bowlers with the Wellington ground not being the biggest. 

Jerome Taylor picked up three wickets but also went at over 10 an over from his 7 overs (3-71). Andre Russell was the only other bowler to grab a wicket, but like Taylor, was very costly. Russell took 2-96 off his 10 overs. 

Ross Taylor and Grant Elliott supported Guptill well with knocks of 42 and 27 respectively. 

It all could have been so different. Marlon Samuels dropped a relatively simple catch off Guptill when he was on four. He then went on to add another 233. 

Trent Boult then took four early wickets as New Zealand bowled out the Windies for 250 to seal a 143-run win.

Chris Gayle hit an entertaining 61 from 33 balls which included eight sixes but it just wasn't enough for the Caribbean side who scored at a fast rate throughout. 393 was always going to be an intimidating total to chase, and the batsmen came out and attacked from the off.

A big hitting cameo (42 from 26 balls) from Jason Holder at the end got the side to 250.

Tim Southee and Daniel Vettori picked up two wickets apiece but also went a high run rate at the "Cake Tin" stadium, while Adam Milne and Corey Anderson grabbed a wicket each. 

They were never really in the contest and continued to lose wickets at regular intervals and were bowled out in 30.3 overs to spark jubilant scenes in the capital.

Talking about his incredible innings, Guptill said: "We were trying to take each ball as it comes and rotate the strike. We did that well and it worked out.

"After I got 100 I thought I should hit some boundaries. It was the quickest outfield I have played on here and you got value for shots."

New Zealand, semi-finalists for the seventh time, will now face South Africa in Auckland on Tuesday at 01:00 GMT, with both seeking a first World Cup final appearance.

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