New Zealand beat West Indies by five wickets against Duckworth Lewis in Friday’s rain-interrupted T20I match, thanks to superb bowling by Pacer Lockie Ferguson and an unbeaten 48 from Jimmy Neesham. Neesham scored his highest score in T20 cricket and shared a 77-run partnership with Devon Conway (41).
Neesham also shared an unbroken 39-run partnership with Mitchell Santner (31 not out) to help New Zealand win with four balls to spare. Batting first, the West Indies scored 180 runs for seven wickets while the match was reduced to 16 overs per team due to rain.
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In response, New Zealand scored 176 for five, losing the revised target by losing five wickets. Captain Kieran Pollard scored an unbeaten 75 off 37 balls for the West Indies. He hit four sixes and eight fours in his innings.
The rain disrupted the Caribbean innings three times. Ferguson took a wicket on the very first ball and took one more wicket in the same over. He took five wickets for 21 runs. He became the second Kiwi bowler after Tim Southee to take five wickets in a T20 match.
New Zealand had lost four wickets for 63 runs at one time. After this, new player Conway played Neesham very well. After Conway was dismissed Neesham and Santner took over the innings and led the team to victory. Oshen Thomas of the Windies took 2 wickets while Captain Pollard and Sheldon Cottrell got 1–1 wickets each.
