NZ  141-2 (15.4)

Player of the Match – Jacob Duffy 

Player of the Series – Jacob Duffy 

New Zealand vs West Indies 5th T20I played in Duendin on November 13. New Zealand won the toss and opted to bowl first. 

Shai Hope started the innings with the West Indian flavour. Starts the over with six and ends the over with four. Jacob Duffy conceded 12 runs in the first over. From the second over, the black caps start dominating the game. Jamieson took Athanaze’s wicket. Jacob Duffy, in his second over, took revenge on Shai Hope on the first ball. Jacob ends his second over with 3 wickets of Shai Hope, Ackeem Auguste, and Rutherford. Only this over twisted the game in favour of New Zealand.

West Indies tried to recover from that over. Hit 15 runs in the last over of the power-play. West Indies scored 47 in the power play, but they lost 4 wickets. Michael Bracewell removed Powell in the 7th over. Neesham took the wicket of Roston Chase. Roston scored 38 runs. In the next over, Ish Sodhi took the wicket of Holder. West Indies were losing wickets back-to-back. Santner took the wicket of Forde. Shepherd tried to increase the scoring rate but got out after scoring 17 runs against Jacob Duffy.

Neesham took the last wicket of Jayden Seales. West Indies posted a total of 140 runs. Tim Robinson shattered the hope of the West Indies by scoring 45 runs in 24 balls. Shepherd’s ball bowled out Robinson. Shamar Springer took the wicket of Ravindra.. Chapman and Conway end the game comfortably. Chapman scored 21 runs and Conway scored 47 runs.

BAN – 149 (19.4)

Player of the Match – Rovman Powell 

West Indies won the toss and opted to bat first. Brandon King and Alick Athanaze opened for the West Indies. Alick charged at Taskin Ahmed in the 4th over and hit 17 runs. Rishad Hossain bowled out Alick in the 9th over. Shai Hope and King were building a partnership, but Taskin Ahmed broke it in the 12th over by taking King’s wicket. On the very next ball, Rutherford also got out.

Shai Hope and Rovman Powell were scoring runs with a good strike rate. In the last over, Powell hit 3 back-to-back sixes to Tanzim Hasan. Shai Hope scored 46 runs in 28 balls, and Powell scored 44 runs in 28 balls. West Indies post 165 runs on the board. It was a good total on that pitch.

Saif Hasan and Tanzid Hasan opened for Bangladesh. Tanzid Hasan showed some flair in starting. Hit a six and four in the first over and a four in the second, but this show ended on the next ball. Captain Litton Das got out in the 3rd over on Akeal’s ball. Akeal Hosein cleaned the opener, Saif Hasan. 

Shamim Hossain bowled on Holder’s ball. Khary Pierre bowled out Nurul Hasan. Back-to-back wickets put Bangladesh under pressure. Tanzim Hasan and Nasum Ahmed tried but fell short. Jayden Seales and Jason Holder took 3 wickets each. Akeal Hosein took 2 wickets. Khary Pierre and Shepherd picked 1 wicket each.