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New Zealand batter Glenn Phillips levelled with Colin Munro to go the team’s associated second-highest six-hitter successful the past of T20I cricket.
Phillips achieved this milestone during his side’s ICC T20 World Cup lucifer against Canada successful Chennai. During his knock, Phillips slammed 4 boundaries and six maximums, scoring 76* successful conscionable 36 balls.
Now, this powerful, burly and cleanable striker of the cricket shot has 107 maximums to his name, levelling him with Munro. Former batter Martin Guptill, for agelong a staple of Kiwis white-ball side, holds the grounds for his squad with 173 sixes.
So acold successful the tournament, Phillips has scored 119 runs successful 3 innings astatine an mean of 59.50 and a onslaught complaint of implicit 185, with a 50 to his name. His different scores person been 1 against South Africa and a 25-ball 42 against Afghanistan.
Coming to the match, Canada won the flip and opted to bat first. Yuvraj Samra’s grounds breaking century, making him the youngest centurion successful T20 WC past (110 successful 65 balls, with 11 fours and six sixes) and skipper Dilpreet Bajwa (36 successful 39 balls, with 4 boundaries) led from the beforehand arsenic Canada posted 173/2 successful 20 overs.
During the chase, Kiwis mislaid Tim Seifert (6) and Finn Allen (21 successful 8 balls, with 2 fours and a six) aboriginal and sunk to 30/2, but Phillips (76* successful 36 balls, with 4 boundaries and six sixes) and Rachin Ravindra (59* successful 39 balls, with 4 boundaries and 3 sixes) took NZ to a triumph by 15.1 overs, stitching a 146-run stand.
Phillips was fixed the ‘Player of the Match’ award. NZ, with 3 wins and loss, inhabit the 2nd spot successful their radical and successfully determination to Super Eights on with South Africa.
