South Africa vs New Zealand, 2nd T20I - Statistical Review

South Africa vs New Zealand, 2nd T20I – Statistical Review: New Zealand gave a strong reply to South Africa after losing in 1st T20 International match by 6 wickets, as they excelled the hosts in all aspects to defeat them by 32 runs. New Zealand posted 177 after batting first and restricted South Africa to just 145 with the ball to level the 2-match T20I series. Here we look at all the possible stats recorded during the game.

Here is the South Africa vs New Zealand, 2nd T20I – Statistical Review:

1 – First time New Zealand has defeated South Africa in T20Is after batting first in the match. Earlier, New Zealand managed to beat South Africa in 3 matches in T20Is, all while batting second.

13 – Number of times New Zealand scored 175 plus in T20Is while batting first, jointly the 2nd most after Pakistan, who scored 14 times.

New Zealand won in all the 13 matches (including one through Super Over). Pakistan won 13 out of 14 matches they scored 175+ and lost in 1 match.

14 – Number of times South Africa and New Zealand faced each other in T20Is. Jointly, this is the most often 2 teams played against each other in T20I. Pakistan against Sri Lanka and Australia against New Zealand have also played 14 matches between themselves.

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22 – Number of fifty plus opening stands that have been recorded for New Zealand, the most for any team in T20Is. Next most is by Australia with 18 fifty plus stands.

1414 – Runs scored by Martin Guptill in T20Is, he is the 6th leading run-scorer in T20Is.

22.38 – AB de Villiers’ average in T20I Cricket. The 2nd worst average for a player who has scored 1000 runs in T20Is. Shahid Afridi has worst average among the batsmen with 1000 runs in T20Is with 19.03.

5 – Number of Man of the match awards in T20Is for Martin Guptill. Jointly the 3rd most Man of the Match awards for a player in bi-lateral T20Is.

102 – Number of runs Martin Guptill scored in this 2-match T20I series. This is the 5th time Guptill has scored 100 and more runs in a bi-lateral T20I series. Brendon McCullum recorded this mark in 4 bi-lateral series’.

424 – Number of runs Martin Guptill has scored against South Africa in T20Is. He is the first player to score 400 runs against a single team in T20Is. Kamran Akmal scoring 366 runs against Australia was previous record for most runs vs single team in T20Is.