New Zealand defeated West Indies by 2-0 in the three match T20I series and registered yet another series win over the visitors in this format.
In the first match, New Zealand registered a five-wicket win in a rain affected game. Their bowlers Tim Southee and Lockie Ferguson led from front as the latter picked up a five-wicket haul and in the batting debutant David Conway and Jimmy Neesham did well. In the second match it was the Glenn Phillips show as the right hander smashed 108 runs and David Conway also did well with an unbeaten fifty.
On the other hand, West Indies' youngsters Shimron Hetmyer, Nicholas Pooran, Rovman Powell and Brandon King once again disappointed and couldn't do anything in the batting. Captain Kieron Pollard performed well but he didn't have any support and in the bowling his bowlers bowled without any control and overall it was a poor show from Windies.
All the major stats and facts from the T20I series between New Zealand and West Indies in New Zealand :
0 - Number of wins West Indies have in T20I cricket on New Zealand soil and they have played 11 T20I matches here.
4 - Glenn Phillips became the fourth New Zealand batsman to score a hundred in T20I cricket.
New Zealand batsmen to score hundreds in T20I cricket -
Colin Munro (3)
Martin Guptill (2)
Brendon McCullum (2)
Glenn Phillips (1)
5/21 - Lockie Ferguson's bowling figures of 5/21 in the first T20I are the second best bowling figures for New Zealand in T20I cricket.
Best bowling figures for NZ in T20I Cricket -
5/18 - Tim Southee vs PAK at Auckland, 2010
5/21 - Lockie Ferguson vs WI at Auckland, 2020
4/7 - Mark Gillespie vs Kenya at Durban, 2007
4/11 - Mitchell Santner vs IND at Nagpur, 2016
4/15 - James Franklin vs ENG at Hamilton, 2013
75* - Runs score is the highest score for Kieron Pollard in T20I cricket. He has scored 5 fifties in 76 T20I matches.
238/3 - Runs total in the second T20I is the third highest total for New Zealand in T20I cricket.
Highest totals for NZ in T20I Cricket -
243/5 vs WI at Mount Maunganui, 2018
243/6 vs AUS at Auckland, 2018
238/3 vs WI at Mount Maunganui, 2020
219/6 vs IND at Wellington, 2019
214/6 vs AUS at Christchurch, 2010
706 - Number of sixes Kieron Pollard has hit in T20 cricket - only the second batsman to hit more than 700 sixes in this format.
Most Sixes in T20 Cricket -
1001 - Chris Gayle
706 - Kieron Pollard
485 - Brendon McCullum
467 - Shane Watson
455 - Andre Russell
420 - AB de Villiers
