West Indies Beat New Zealand By 13 Runs

Tags: ICC Mens T20 World Cup 2024,
West Indies vs New Zealand, twenty sixth Match, Group C at Trinidad, Jun 12, 2024,
West Indies,
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Printed on: Jun 13, 2024

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Black Caps skipper Kane Williamson gained the toss and put west indies in to bat .Rutherford’s unbeaten 68 off 39 balls (two fours, six sixes) lifted the house facet from the depths of 30 for 5 within the seventh over to a aggressive 149 for 9.

Chasing 150, New Zealand misplaced wickets in a fast succession and had been restricted to 136/9 in 20 overs. For NZ, Glenn Phillips was the top-scorer with 40 runs. For WI, Joseph scalped 4 wickets whereas Gudakesh Motie scalped three. Other than them, Akeal Hosein additionally scalped one wicket.

Solely Glenn Phillips (40 off 33 balls) induced any actual worries for the West Indies however when he fell to Joseph within the 18th over the match was successfully over as a contest, regardless of Mitchell Santner belting three sixes off Romario Shepherd within the last over.

With the win West Indies have certified for the Tremendous Eight and New Zealand have solely slimmest of the possibilities to make it to the subsequent spherical of the event.

Rovman Powell West Indies captain: I am very comfortable, we discover ourselves in some bother and two guys went deep. We already mentioned that any individual needed to play a blinder, it was not a simple wicker for the inclement climate. Sherfane’s innings was unbelievable and gave us confidence in the course of the innings break. What the New Zealand bowlers tried to do nicely we tried to copy. On the midway mark we sat down and mentioned making an attempt to hit a tough size and our spinners to spin the ball. Now we have obtained to make use of what now we have, we do not have quick bowlers like New Zealand. Credit score to them (spinners) even with a moist ball, they did nicely. Such an excellent evening and somebody needed to get up and be counted.

Kane Williamson New Zealand captain: It was good, we had an inkling it might be fairly tough if we hit an space and that proved to be the case. The standard of Sherfane’s innings was the distinction, extremely spectacular and fairly irritating for us. The batting depth from their facet was fairly useful, we took the aggressive choice to take the wicket and T20 is a sport of small margins and sadly didn’t work out that means. [on Santner bowling the last over] We all know that and now we have full belief in that, the blokes did that nicely within the first 12 overs however as I stated it is small margins and two three balls in an over can go massive and the rating could be above par. You get the prep and do what you possibly can. Situations listed here are what they’re and we will not make excuses. We have to preserve getting higher and preserve discovering a means, 10-15 runs that may make an enormous distinction. We have to bounce again rapidly, we’re again in two days, we have to be smarter. The learnings are essential and we have to choose ourselves up and go once more