Modern Zealand Closes World Container Campaign with Comfortable Victory
New Zealand, the semi-finalist of the 2022 T20 World Container, offered goodbye to the bunch organize with ease, overcoming Papua Modern Guinea in their last coordinate. At the Brian Lara Cricket Stadium in Trinidad on Monday (June 17), they chased down a target of 79 runs given by PNG with 7 wickets in hand and 46 balls to save, much appreciated to Kane Williamson's team.
Initially, Modern Zealand confronted a minor misfortune as they misplaced opener Finn Allen in the moment ball of the coordinate. At that point Rachin Ravindra moreover couldn't remain long, scoring fair 6 runs off 11 balls. Captain Williamson and Conway at that point took charge.
Conway scored 35 runs off 32 balls some time recently being rejected, but it was Daryl Mitchell who guided the group to triumph. Driving from the front, Williamson remained unbeaten with 18 runs off 17 balls. Mitchell contributed an unbeaten 19 off 12 balls. Papua Modern Guinea, batting to begin with, overseen as it were 4 runs for 2 wickets in 2.2 overs bowled by Kaua Moriasi.
Before that, Unused Zealand's bowler Lockie Ferguson had a surprising day, taking all 10 wickets in fair 78 runs. He set a record in the history books with his lady in all four overs as the to begin with bowler in T20 World Cup.
Ferguson took 3 wickets without conceding any runs in 4 overs. Other than Ferguson, the rest of the bowlers too bowled brilliantly. Tim Southee took 2 wickets for 11 runs in 4 overs, whereas Trent Boult took 2 wickets for 14 runs in 4 overs in his final T20 coordinate of the World Container. Furthermore, Ish Sodhi went through 29 runs in 3.4 overs for 2 wickets.