Latest - The Black Caps batsmen set the tone for an empatic 90-run win against the West Indies this morning to seal the T20 International Series.
Daryl Mitchell Photo: David Gray/Photosport Ltd 2021
New Zealand's record breaking total of 215 runs was the highest international score by a visiting T20 team in the Caribbean.
Glenn Phillips top scored with 76, including six sixes, and told SkySport he's familiar with the conditions from playing in the Carribean Premier League.
Batsmen Devon Conway and Phillips smashed 20 runs off just one over, while Daryl Mitchell was at his swashbuckling best in hitting 48 off 20 balls.
The West Indies slumped to 125 all out in their run chase at Kingston's Sabina Park.
The final game in the T20 series will be played on Monday, before the teams meet again in three one-dayers.
Boult signs for Mumbai Indians as overseas player in new UAE-based league
Blackcaps paceman Trent Boult has signed for the Mumbai Indians in the new UAE-based T20 league.
Trent Boult Photo: PHOTOSPORT
Boult last week walked away from his contract with New Zealand Cricket, but says his international career is not over.
Also signing for Mumbai was Kieron Pollard, a regular with the side in the IPL.
Dwayne Bravo and Nicolas Pooran are the other international players on the roster.
The Mumbai Indians Emirates team will be based in Abu Dhabi.
Kyrgios' winning streak comes to an end
Nick Kyrgios's nine-match winning streak ended in the Canadian Masters semi-finals when eighth-seeded Pole Hubert Hurkacz blasted his way to a 7-6(4) 6-7(5) 6-1 victory.
Nick Kyrios Photo: John Patrick Fletcher
Enjoying a superb run of form, the loss was Kyrgios's first since falling to Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final.
Since then the 27-year-old has been on a roll, including a title at the Citi Open, before running into Hurkacz who improves his record to 2-0 against the Australian following a three sets win earlier this year in the Halle semi-finals.
Romania's Simona Halep fought off a late rally from Coco Gauff to secure a 6-4 7-6(2) win and advance to the Canadian Open semi-finals for a fifth time.
Twice champion Halep, up a set and leading 4-1 in the second, looked headed for an easy passage into the last four.
But Gauff dug in and rallied to force the second set to a tiebreak before 15th-seeded Halep finish off the 10th seed in the tiebreak to maintain her dominance over the American.
- Reuters
Qatar to kick off World Cup as finals brought forward by one day
This year's World Cup in Qatar will start a day earlier than originally scheduled with the opening ceremony now taking place before the host nation kick off the tournament on Sunday, Nov. 20 against Ecuador, world governing body FIFA said.
The original plan was for the opening ceremony to be held before Qatar's first game on Nov. 21, which would have created the unusual situation of two matches - Senegal v Netherlands and England v Iran - being held before the ceremony.
- Reuters