{"id":288346,"date":"2026-02-17T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288346\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:59:13","slug":"black-caps-v-canada-result-new-zealand-avoid-t20-world-cup-upset-with-thumping-win-in-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/288346\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caps v Canada result: New Zealand avoid T20 World Cup upset with thumping win in Chennai"},"content":{"rendered":"

As was the case in the win over Afghanistan<\/a>, Phillips\u2019 aggression was key in making sure the Black Caps never lost momentum. The 29-year-old recorded the fastest half-century of the tournament to date, and needed just 22 balls to raise his bat, and finished with four fours and six sixes. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ravindra added a much-needed half-century of his own, after struggling to trouble the scorers so far in the tournament, with just 13 runs in his first three innings. <\/p>\n

The Black Caps\u2019 win came without captain Mitchell Santner, absent with illness, as Daryl Mitchell took the leadership reins. New Zealand were also without their leading wicket-taker, Lockie Ferguson, who has returned home for the birth of his first child. <\/p>\n

With the Super Eight groups decided pre-tournament by ICC seedings, the Black Caps will travel to Sri Lanka, where they\u2019ll face their hosts, as well as England, and likely Pakistan in the next stage.<\/p>\n

While the Black Caps\u2019 attack were expected to run through Canada\u2019s batting order, Samra\u2019s ton put paid to those ideas, hitting 11 fours and six sixes in his knock. <\/p>\n

However, while wickets were hard to come by, the Black Caps kept Canada\u2019s run rate in check, as 50-0 after six overs became 75-0 at halfway. <\/p>\n

Samra remedied that, and raised the century stand with captain Dilpreet Bajwa (36) in the 13th over with two sixes and a boundary off Cole McConchie, before being given a life on 90 when a swipe to long-off was palmed over the boundary by Matt Henry. <\/p>\n

And with a bottom edge past the wicketkeeper in the 17th over, Samra became the youngest batter in the history of men\u2019s T20 World Cups to reach triple figures, with his first century in professional cricket, after taking just 22 balls to move from 50 to 100.<\/p>\n

On 103, Samra was given another life \u2013 this time by Neesham \u2013 who palmed another ball over the long-on boundary for four. But having blazed the highest score of the tournament, so far, Samra fell in the final over, when he hit Jacob Duffy (1-25) to Phillips at long leg, with 110 of Canada\u2019s 173-4.<\/p>\n

Set the same total that saw a 10-wicket win over the UAE<\/a> last week, Canada ensured there wouldn\u2019t be a repeat result for the Black Caps, as both openers went inside the power play.<\/p>\n

But Ravindra and Phillips calmed any nerves to reach the end of the first six overs without further loss, before counter-attacking once the fielding restrictions ended.<\/p>\n

\"GlennGlenn Phillips bats for the Black Caps against Canada. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

A straight six from Ravindra raised the pair\u2019s fifty stand in only 27 deliveries, before Phillips put the hammer down against Canada\u2019s spinners, with both Ansh Patel and Shivam Sharma turning the ball into his hitting arc.<\/p>\n

A slog-swept six off Sharma saw Phillips raise New Zealand\u2019s 100 in the 10th over, as the equation for victory at the halfway stage was just 68 needed from the last 60 balls. <\/p>\n

As Phillips raised his 50 with another six over midwicket, that target dropped to less than a run-a-ball, before a Ravindra pull raised the century stand in 53 deliveries. <\/p>\n

With the pair waltzing to the target, Phillips brutally switch-hit Saad Bin Zafar (1-29) for his sixth six, before Ravindra\u2019s third took him to 50, off just 35 balls, as the win was completed in the 16th over. <\/p>\n

The Black Caps will now wait on the results of the final matches in Group A, to learn if they\u2019ll face Pakistan, USA or Netherlands in the Super Eights. <\/p>\n

Canada 173-4 (Samra 110; Duffy 1-25)<\/p>\n

New Zealand 176-2 (Phillips 76 not out, Ravindra 59 not out; Zafar 1-29)<\/p>\n

New Zealand win by eight wickets<\/p>\n

Alex Powell<\/a> is a sports journalist for the NZ Herald. He has been a sports journalist since 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As was the case in the win over Afghanistan, Phillips\u2019 aggression was key in making sure the Black…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9331,17094,1558,7022,2108,275,42574,27024,71492,10542,15159,13845,1444,48950,305,78,117,111,43,139,69,6029,6744,12229,5433,313,67648,26881,49118,8496,8982,6027,102,377,80,2963],"class_list":{"0":"post-288346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-chance","9":"tag-avoid","10":"tag-been","11":"tag-black","12":"tag-book","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-caps","15":"tag-chennai","16":"tag-crickets","17":"tag-cup","18":"tag-denied","19":"tag-eight","20":"tag-famous","21":"tag-guys","22":"tag-have","23":"tag-in","24":"tag-new","25":"tag-new-zealand","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-newzealand","28":"tag-nz","29":"tag-once","30":"tag-place","31":"tag-result","32":"tag-stage","33":"tag-super","34":"tag-t20","35":"tag-thumping","36":"tag-twenty20","37":"tag-upset","38":"tag-victory","39":"tag-win","40":"tag-with","41":"tag-world","42":"tag-zealand","43":"tag-zealands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}