Colin Munro

Colin Munro
Munro with the Sydney Sixers in 2017
Personal information
Full name Colin Munro
Born (1987-03-11) 11 March 1987
Durban, Natal Province, South Africa
Batting Left-handed
Bowling Right-arm medium
Role Top-order Batsman
International information
National side
ODI debut (cap 179) 22 January 2013 v South Africa
Last ODI 10 March 2018 v England
ODI shirt no. 82
T20I debut (cap 58) 21 December 2012 v South Africa
Last T20I 21 February 2018 v Australia
T20I shirt no. 82
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2006 — present Auckland
2016 Kolkata Knight Riders
2016 — present Trinbago Knight Riders
2017 Sydney Sixers
2018 — present Delhi Daredevils
2018 — present Hampshire
2014 — 2015 Worcestershire
Career statistics
Competition ODI T20I FC LA
Matches 40 45 48 109
Runs scored 905 1173 3611 3158
Batting average 25.85 33.51 51.58 36.72
100s/50s 0/6 3/7 13/15 5/20
Top score 87 109* 281 174*
Balls bowled 450 82 3518 1280
Wickets 7 3 58 21
Bowling average 55.14 43.33 27.51 55.71
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a n/a n/a
Best bowling 2/10 1/12 4/36 3/45
Catches/stumpings 16/- 14/- 21/- 45/-
Source: Cricinfo, 7 July 2018

Colin Munro (born 11 March 1987) is a South-African born New Zealand international cricketer, who plays limited overs formats of the game. He was a member of the New Zealand Under 19 side and is currently a member of the Auckland cricket team.[1] He is the first player to score three Twenty20 International centuries in the history of the game.

Early life

Munro attended Maidstone Primary School in Tongaat and after moving to New Zealand, attended Pakuranga College and played in the school's 1st XI cricket team. Munro represented New Zealand in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup held in Sri Lanka in 2006.

Domestic and T20 franchise career

In 2012-13 he and Craig Cachopa added 377 runs for the sixth wicket against the Wellington Firebirds in the Plunket Shield, falling two runs shy of the sixth wicket partnership record. He scored the second highest score for the Auckland Aces of 269 unbeaten with 27 fours and 14 sixes behind Bill Carson's record score of 290 set back in 1936/37.

In January 2017, Munro signed for the Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League and made his debut in front of 39,756 at the SCG against the Thunder. [2]

In March, 2018, as his international form in T20 not translating in ODI's, and with the 2019 Cricket World Cup looming, Munro decided to forego the rest of the 2017/18 and 2018/2019 Plunket Shield test seasons and focuses solely on white ball cricket. This also includes international Test cricket.

In September 2018, he was named in Balkh's squad in the first edition of the Afghanistan Premier League tournament.[3]

International career

He was selected for the New Zealand Test Cricket team to play South Africa in the 2nd Test of the NZ team's tour after an injury to James Franklin. This made him New Zealand Test Cricketer number #258. In 2016, after becoming the top scorer in the domestic T20 competition, where he bats at no.3, there were hopes for him to cement that spot before the ICC World T20, given Brendon McCullum's international retirement before the tournament.[4][5]

Munro was added to the series against Sri Lanka, after a great domestic season. He played the last ODI and 2 T20Is in the series. In the second T20I at Eden Park, Munro recorded the second fastest T20I fifty of all time in 14 balls, with seven sixes, only behind 12-ball fifty of Yuvraj Singh. This is also the fastest fifty by a New Zealander in this format, beating the previous record set by Martin Guptill (50 from 19 balls) just 20 minutes before. He was adjudged man of the match for this performance.[5][6]

On 6 January 2017 against Bangladesh, Munro scored his first Twenty20 International century, and became the third player for New Zealand to score a T20I hundred after Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill.[7] With his century, New Zealand poster 195 runs in 20 overs and finally won the match by 47 runs.[8]

Munro was lifted to opening batting position during the ODI series against India, and he had good fortunes in the opening slot in few matches.[9]

On 4 November 2017, in the second T20I of the Indian tour, Munro scored his second Twenty20 International century, becoming the second New Zealander (after McCullum) and fourth overall to score two T20I centuries. He was also the first batsman to score two T20I centuries in a year.[10]New Zealand won the match by 40 runs and 3-match series was levelled 1-1 with his all-round contribution.[11]

During the series against West Indies, Munro moved up to open in the limited overs formats. On 3 January 2018, during the series against the West Indies, he became the first player to score three centuries in T20I cricket.[12][13] With this feat, he became the no.1 T20I batsman in the world, while Ish Sodhi claimed the no.1 T20I bowler ranking at the same time, making the first Black Caps pair since Brendon McCullum and Daniel Vettori to top the respective lists in 2008 and 2009.[14]

In May 2018, he was one of twenty players to be awarded a new contract for the 2018–19 season by New Zealand Cricket.[15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Colin Munro". Auckland Cricket. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
  2. ↑ http://www.cricket.com.au/news/colin-munro-signs-sydney-sixers-kfc-big-bash-league-bbl06-replacement-overseas/2017-01-06
  3. ↑ "Afghanistan Premier League 2018 – All you need to know from the player draft". CricTracker. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "NZ 164/4 (18.3 ov, LRPL Taylor 14*, GD Elliott 1*, KMDN Kulasekara 2/22) | Live Scorecard". Cricinfo. Retrieved 2016-01-07.
  5. 1 2 Wilson, Clay (January 10, 2016). "Crash, bang, wallop - Colin Munro claims Martin Guptill's NZ fastest 50 record in SAME innings". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
  6. ↑ Andrew Fidel Fernando (January 10, 2016). "New Zealand v Sri Lanka, 2nd T20I, Auckland. Guptill sets fastest NZ fifty record, Munro breaks it five overs later". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Munro's 52-ball hundred razes Bangladesh". ESPNcricinfo. 6 January 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  8. ↑ "2nd T20I, Bangladesh tour of New Zealand at Mount Maunganui, Jan 6 2017". ESPNcricinfo. 6 January 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
  9. ↑ "Colin Munro, George Worker to open for Blackcaps in India as Tom Latham demoted". Newshub. Retrieved 2017-10-12.
  10. ↑ "Munro: first batsman to hit two T20I tons in a year". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  11. ↑ "2nd T20I (N), New Zealand tour of India at Rajkot, Nov 4 2017". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
  12. ↑ "Colin Munro becomes the first man to score three Twenty20 international hundreds". Stuff. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  13. ↑ "Munro steps up in 'mentor' McCullum's role". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  14. ↑ "Munro and Sodhi on top of the world". Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  15. ↑ "Todd Astle bags his first New Zealand contract". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
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