Cricket: Kiwi IPL players rushed home from India, Black Caps test players receive exemptions to enter United Kingdom
5 May, 2021 11:50 PM
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New Zealand Cricket has confirmed the Black Caps will be rushed home from India with some continuing on to the upcoming trio of test matches in England. Video / NZ Herald
New Zealand Cricket has confirmed the Black Caps will be rushed home from India with some continuing on to the upcoming trio of test matches in England. Video / NZ Herald
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New Zealand Cricket has revealed its plans for the Kiwi Indian Premier League contingent of players included in the upcoming trio of test matches in England, following the suspension of the Twenty20 competition.
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New Zealand s Martin Guptill. Photo / Photosport
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Devon Conway continues to blaze up the International Cricket Council s T20 batting rankings.
The Black Cap batsman has moved up to fourth in fairly quick succession, jumping ahead of Indian skipper Virat Kohli and sitting behind England s Dawid Malan, Aaron Finch of Australia and Pakistan s Babar Azam.
Conway has scored 299 runs in his last seven T20 internationals at an average of 59.8 and strike rate of 151.
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Martin Guptill is the only other New Zealand batsman in the top 10.
Glenn Philips, who won the player of the match award in the second T20 in Napier, has attained a career-best status. He has moved up 32 places to 26th.
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Finn Allen was the standout batsman for New Zealand. Photo / Photosport
Approaching 9pm, the prospect of any cricket in Auckland appeared fanciful at best.
By 10pm, Finn Allen was walking off Eden Park with 71 next to his name after 29 balls of futuristic cricket.
Allen s maiden 50 was the centrepiece of the Black Caps imposing 141-4 off the allotted 10 overs as the Black Caps put a bold-type exclamation point on their extraordinary season.
It was always going to be a tall order to chase it down. After eight overs Bangladesh were 70-8 needing 36 an over off the final two to win – not impossible, but pretty tricky all the same.