Allen, Southee, Boult earn series parity for New Zealand
Allen, Southee, Boult earn series parity for New Zealand: New Zealand defeated West Indies by 50 runs to even the series in Barbados, and Finn Allen’s 117-ball 96 was worth its weight in gold in a game when bowlers made merry.
New Zealand won the game by beating West Indies. Allen’s performance propelled the away team barely past the 200-run barrier, but that was more than enough as the veteran bowling combo of Tim Southee and Trent Boult accounted for seven wickets between them to bundle out the home team for just 161 runs during a match that was disrupted by rain.
After Nicholas Pooran put them into the game to set a target, the batsmen from New Zealand struggled. By the 10th over, they had already lost three of their top four batsmen and were in urgent need of a partnership to pull them out of the mess they were in.
Mitchell
When Daryl Mitchell came in at 31 for 3, the team total had already passed 100 before another collapse occurred. Mitchell and Allen had a combination that scored 84 runs for the team. The score for New Zealand improved from 115 for 3 to 167 for 8 and they were now looking at the prospect of ending with a score lower than 200.
Mitchell Santner (26* off 27) and Trent Boult (16 off 13) frustrated the West Indies bowlers in the end to take their side to 212 before Kevin Sinclair had the latter caught and bowled off his own bowling to finish with a four-fer. Santner scored 26 runs off 27 deliveries, and Boult scored 16 runs off 13 deliveries.
Boult and Southee ran amok against the West Indies top-order, bringing their score to 27 for 6 by the 10th over despite the fact that the West Indies had little to defend.
As a result of the carnage, captain Pooran was eliminated for two, while ducks eliminated both Kyle Mayers and Shamarh Brooks. The West Indies were struggling at 61 for 7 when a rain delay provided them with some much-needed relief.
When play finally resumed after a delay of nearly an hour, their already challenging task became even more challenging due to the fact that the amended target based on the DLS technique was the total scored by New Zealand, which was 212, but they only had 41 overs to score it.
After the game was restarted, Akeal Hosein was out in the second over, putting New Zealand on the verge of a significant victory.
ODI
However, Yannic Cariah and Alzarri Joseph put up an improbable fight with a large partnership that was worth 85 runs, which gave the home fans a glimpse of hope. During this stand, Joseph had a particularly spectacular style, as he hit five fours and two sixes in his total of 49 off of 31 balls.
Cariah even reached his half-century, which was his first in one-day internationals, but they could only delay the inevitable loss in the end. Southee, who had already taken three wickets in the early onslaught, came back to clean up Joseph just one run short of his half-century, and Santner took the wicket of Cariah in the 36th over to finish off the game. Southee had already picked up three wickets in the early onslaught.
The brief scores are as follows: New Zealand scored 212 runs in 48.2 overs, whereas West Indies scored 161 runs in 35.3 overs. Finn Allen scored 96 runs and Daryl Mitchell scored 41 runs. Kevin Sinclair took four wickets and Jason Holder took three wickets. New Zealand won by 50 runs (DLS Method)