Pooran became Windies’ top scorer in T20 International: Sunil Narine arrived at Trinidad stadium to present the trophy; Records and moments

In the T20 World Cup, after 12 years, West Indies won the match between West Indies and New Zealand. With this, New Zealand’s path to the top-8 has become difficult. West Indies had a very bad start. The team lost 4 wickets in the first 6 overs. However, thanks to Rutherford’s innings of 68 runs, the team gave a target of 150.

Due to the excellent bowling of Alzari Joseph and Gudakesh Moti from West Indies, the Kiwi team could score only 136 runs in 20 overs and the Windies won by 13 runs. In this match, Nicholas Pooran played an innings of 17 runs, he was sent to the pavilion by Devon Conway taking a brilliant catch. With this, Pooran became the top scorer of West Indies in T20 International. He left Chris Gayle behind.

Moments and records made in the match…

1. Sunil Narine presented the trophy at the stadium in Trinidad
Sunil Narine, who has played more than 500 T20 matches for West Indies, presented the trophy in the T20 World Cup match between West Indies and New Zealand after 12 years. Actually, the first match of the T20 World Cup was played at Brian Lara Academy in Trinidad. Sunil Narine came to present the trophy in the first match. Windies won this match.

Former West Indies spinner Sunil Narine presented the T20 World Cup trophy at the Brian Lara Stadium.

2. Conway took a brilliant catch of Puran
Nicholas Pooran lost his wicket on the fifth ball of the fourth over of West Indies’ innings. Tim Southee bowled a short ball to Pooran. The ball bounced backwards after hitting Pooran’s bat. Keeper Devon Conway ran and took a brilliant catch while stumbling. After this, the third umpire checked whether the ball had touched the camera wires or not and Pooran was declared out.

New Zealand keeper Devon Conway caught Nicholas Pooran. Pooran was out after scoring 17 runs.

3. Finn Allen’s catch was missed on the first ball of the 6th over
The last over of the powerplay was bowled by Alzari Joseph. Finn Allen got a reprieve on the very first ball. Joseph bowled the ball outside Allen’s off stump. Finn tried to hit a shot towards point, but the ball bounced high after hitting the outside edge of the bat. Sherfane Rutherford, fielding at cover, ran towards point, but he went ahead of the ball and missed the catch. After this Allen played an innings of 26 runs.

West Indies’ Sherfane Rutherford dropped the catch of Finn Allen on 26 runs.

4. Russell missed the runout of Phillips
On the fifth ball of the 17th over of New Zealand’s innings, Andre Russell missed the runout of Glenn Phillips and also gave an extra run. Russell bowled a short ball to Phillips. Phillips played a shot at deep cover point. After completing the first run, Phillips and Santner were confused about the second run. The cover fielder threw the ball to Russell, but Russell failed to catch it and collided with Phillips. Due to the misfield, Phillips and Santner completed the second run easily.

Records made in the match…

1. Puran became the Windies player to score the most runs in T20 International
In the match between New Zealand and West Indies, keeper batsman Nicholas Pooran played an innings of 17 runs. With this he completed his 1900 runs in T20. He also became the top scorer of West Indies in T20. He left Chris Gayle behind. Chris Gayle is in second place with 1899 runs in 79 matches.

2. Rutherford scored the second-highest score of T20 World Cup at 6th position
The West Indies team had lost 4 wickets in the powerplay. After the fifth wicket fell on the third ball of the 7th over, Sherfane Rutherford came to bat at the 6th position. He handled the team and played an innings of 68 runs. This was the second highest score by a player batting at 6th or below in the T20 World Cup. Before him, Australia’s Cameron White had scored an unbeaten 85 runs against Sri Lanka.

3. West Indies made the third lowest score in power play in T20 World Cup
In the match between New Zealand and West Indies in the T20 World Cup, Windies had a bad start. The team lost 4 wickets after scoring 23 runs in the powerplay. The team made its third lowest powerplay score in the history of T20 World Cup. Their worst performance was against Sri Lanka in 2012. In that match, the team scored 12 runs after losing 2 wickets in the powerplay.