Raipur witnessed an intense second T20 match between India and New Zealand on Friday, where the Indian team secured a commanding 7-wicket victory, taking a 2-0 lead in the series. Alongside India’s impressive chase, New Zealand’s young fast bowler Jack Faulkes faced a challenging day on the field, registering an unfortunate record that he would soon want to forget.
At 23 years old, Jack Faulkes is considered a promising fast bowler for New Zealand. However, Friday’s match did not favour him. The Indian batting duo of Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav dominated his bowling, resulting in Faulkes becoming the most expensive New Zealand bowler in a T20 match. Despite bowling just three overs, he conceded a record number of runs for his country in this format.
Faulkes gave away 67 runs in his 3 overs. His spell began with the third over of the Indian innings, where he leaked 24 runs, including 1 no-ball and 3 wides. He returned for his second over in the ninth over of the innings, conceding 25 runs with 4 boundaries and a six. In these first two overs alone, Faulkes gave away 49 runs, the highest ever runs conceded by any bowler in the first two overs of a T20 match.
Though his third over in the 14th did slightly better, giving away 18 runs with 2 fours and 1 six, Faulkes’ total tally of 67 runs in 3 overs marked the most expensive T20 bowling spell for New Zealand. Moreover, he became the bowler to concede the highest runs in a 3-over spell in T20 cricket. Unfortunately, Faulkes could not claim any wickets during the match.
The previous record for the most expensive New Zealand T20 spell was held by Ben Wheeler, who gave away 64 runs in 3.1 overs against Australia in Auckland in 2018.
On the match front, New Zealand, after losing the toss, posted a competitive 208 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. India successfully chased the target in 15.2 overs with 3 wickets down, marking the fastest chase of a 200-plus score in terms of balls faced.
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