New Zealand 102 for 4 (Munro 66) v West Indies
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
New year, same-old problems for West Indies. Their bowlers kept spraying the ball around, and Colin Munro shellacked 66 off 23 balls at a strike-rate of 286.95. Persistent rain, however, had the final say in the first international match of 2018. Play was called off after just nine overs at 10.05pm, 12 minutes before the cut-off time.
This means West Indies are still winless on this tour after seven international matches and two tour games. If they don’t break their duck in the third T20 on Wednesday, they will return home empty-handed.
Munro had enjoyed a memorable start to 2017, smashing a 52-ball hundred against Bangladesh in Mount Maunganui. He then hit an equally brutal century in Rajkot in November to become the first batsman with two T20I hundreds in a year. On the first day of 2018, he threatened to rustle up his third T20I ton, after bringing up New Zealand’s second-fastest T20I fifty off 18 balls, but ultimately holed out to long-on.
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Source: ESPN Crickinfo