Match Details
This is it from the live coverage of this game with West Indies winning it by 5 wickets. That’s it for today from myself Nikhil Kalla alongside my co-commentator AkshayaKrishna Polya with our ever-so-reliable scorer/analyst Zeeshan Naiyer. See you soon again with more games to follow till then stay safe.
NIKHIL: So, we are done here with West Indies winning the game as they defeat New Zealand by 5 wickets, as they chase down the target of 190 runs.
New Zealand started Superbly scoring 50 in the first 10 overs losing just 1 wicket. Then came the spinners and the Kiwis lost their top order cheaply to them. The wickets kept tumbling on a regular basis and the hosts never allowed the visitors to build a statement partnership. The opening partnership of 41 was the highest one for the visitors.
For West Indies, Akeal Hosein and Alzarri Joseph scalped 3 wickets each. Jason Holder scalped a couple too. Debutants Sinclair and Cariah took a wicket each as well.
In reply to the target set by the Visitors, Indies started well despite losing a couple of wickets in the powerplay as they managed to bag 51 runs in it.
Hope and Mayers couldn’t last long and both departed on a total of 37 runs. Brooks and Pooran then managed to put up a partnership of 75 runs. They paced along well as the game progressed. Brooks scored a brilliant half-century as he managed to score 79 runs.
For New Zealand, Boult and Southee started well and picked up both the openers cheaply. Santner then chipped in with the wicket of Carty. Southee and Boult scalped a couple of wickets in total for the visitors.
West Indies win the game with relative ease and the decision to play 3 spinners worked in their favor in this game. As a result, West Indies have won this as they take a 1-0 lead in this 3-game series.