• New Zealand win by five runs in nail-biting finish
On the most thrilling and gulpingly tight of nights at a packed Old Trafford, a bombastic hundred from Carlos Brathwaite just failed to carry West Indies to an astounding victory over New Zealand.
In a brutal array of late-order hitting that sent the ball this way and that, from screaming top edge to flat‑batted swipe, Brathwaite crushed nine fours and five sixes, as a lost cause became possible and then probable, with the New Zealanders dry-throated in the face of the big man for the big occasion – the man who had won the World T20 in 2016 with four successive sixes off Ben Stokes in the last over of the game.
Written by Tanya Aldred at Old Trafford
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jun/22/new-zealand-west-indies–carlos-brathwaite-cricket-world-cup-match-report under the title “New Zealand foil dramatic big hitting by West Indies’ Carlos Brathwaite”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
