Devon Conway shines brightest under Hagley’s new lights

Devon Conway is the kind that every cricketer dreams about.

Conway delivered another clinic under the bright lights of Hagley Oval when New Zealand made a successful start in the Trans-Tasman T20 series against Australia.

In front of just over 9,000 fans on Monday, Conway threw 99 of 59 balls unbeaten in New Zealand’s dominant 53-time win – the first national player to play under Hagley’s new light.

It was a terrifying day in Christchurch, on the tenth anniversary of the February 22 earthquake, and Conway gave a treat to the Canterbury crowd.

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South African-born Conway, who was allowed to represent New Zealand in his first summer, somehow said he sees it as a water polo.

He started and proved the roles with a brilliant failure of 99. A century had seen the cards after Ken Richardson hit the fourth and fifth balls from the last ball with six and four, but he could only drop one hit from the last ball.

His big punches were urgently needed after the beige-clad Black Caps collapsed to 19-3 after being sent by Australian captain Aaron Finch.

Conway became the first hitter from New Zealand to score T20 for five consecutive half-centuries after scoring four consecutive Super Smash for Wellington.

This included 93 distinguished people who failed to exit the Super Smash Final against Canterbury to lead the Firebirds to the title. Conway’s latest five T20 rounds do well: 99 *, 93 *, 91 *, 69 * and 50.

The Australian’s chase worsened when a troubled goldfinch was removed with a blow by Tim Sothey on the fifth ball.

Unable to stay out of the game, Conway got the fly to send Finch away and added another plane that took off from Trent Bolt in the next match over rookie Josh Philip.

Matthew Wade abandoned Bolt for six goals in his next match but switched to the next ball to give New Zealand the lead and Australia fell to 16-3, which quickly turned 19-4.

The old company of Southee and Boult caused early damage and captured the first four gates.

In the middle of the chase, Australia was 63-5 and 12 for the win.

Legspinner Ish Sodhi took four wickets for the first time in T20I – including the dangerous Marcus Stoinis who went eight.

With Australia not coming out of controlled isolation until 8:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. Sunday night, it is best to hit before a second T20 in Dunedin on Thursday.

Conway has scored for fun, but it’s the opposite for teammate Martin Joptel – whose position in the T20 team is seriously compromised.

Guptill’s hitting problems were compounded when he got a 3-ball duck.

The first two shipments left from former Canterbury importer Daniel Sams and then were briefly discharged by Ashton Agar.

The summer remains miserable for Joptel, who discovered on Saturday that coach Gary Steed was “watching a million dollars on the net”.

Just before Christmas, Guptill scored 6, 21, and 19 in the Pakistani series T20, 34 and 5 against the West Indies. In his four rounds for Auckland in the T20 Super Smash, he scored 46 points with a high score of 29 at 11:50 am.

Guptill, New Zealand’s career captain in the T20I (2621), lost eleven rounds since the last half-century in T20 to England in November 2019.

Soon he runs out of chances to open up with Conway or Glenn Phillips and use Mark Chapman as fifth later in the series, which is definitely gaining momentum.

New Zealand was in trouble for its third match 11-2 when Tim Seifert fell to Yorker from J. Richardson, who was an impressive hit in Big Bash, as he got 29 wickets.

With Captain Ken Williamson and the trusted Conway in the fold, New Zealand really wanted to unite.

They did the opposite, giving in before 19-3, with Williamson joining Wade downstairs.

Conway and Phillips began to lock in turns and speed up scoring when shots were introduced.

Phillips brought his 50-year partnership with Adam Zampa six years into the eleventh.

The duo looked like they could get away with it in Australia, but Phillips led one of the Stokes to finish a 74 out of 51 ball stance.

Conway then scored and his efforts in the bottom rounds brought all teams between the two teams.

Quick overview:

New Zealand 184-5 (Devon Conway 99no of 59, Glenn Phillips 30 of 20, Jimmy Nesham 26 of 15; Jay Richardson 2-31, Daniel Sams 2-40) Along the same lines Australia 131 (Mitchell Marsh 45 von 33; Ish Sude 4-28, Tim Sothey 2-10, Trent Bolt 2-22) With 53 runs.