Canada's Yuvraj Samra made history at the Men's T20 World Cup today with the first ever century by an associate player, but it wasn't enough to prevent a rampant New Zealand from booking their place in the Super 8 stage today in Chennai.

Choosing to bat first after winning the toss, Canadian captain Dilpreet Bajwa opened with Samra, and the pair put on 116 for the first wicket before Bejwa was out for 36.

The runs kept flowing from Samra though, with the 19 year old Samra - who was born in Brampton, Ontario and named after Yuvraj Singh by his cricket mad father - playing an innings that his namesake would have been proud of. He brought up his century in just 58 balls and eventually fell in the final over having scored 110 from 65 balls including 11 fours and 6 sixes.

Yuvraj Samra celebrates his century

Canada would have been reasonably confident of defending their total of 173-4, especially when they had both Kiwi openers out within the first four overs.

But that was it as far as wickets were concerned as Rachin Ravindra and Glenn Phillips added an unbroken 146 to secure the eight wicket win with just short of five overs to spare. Ravindra contributed 59 from 39 balls whilst Philiips clubbed 76 from only 36 balls.

New Zealand's next match will be on Saturday in the Super 8 stage, whilst Canada still have a first round match to come against Afghanistan on Thursday.