{"id":648011,"date":"2026-11-01T17:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648011\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T17:36:17","slug":"black-caps-v-india-glenn-phillips-takes-final-step-in-international-coming-of-age-with-eden-park-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/648011\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Caps v India: Glenn Phillips takes final step in international coming of age with Eden Park century"},"content":{"rendered":"

The century, his third in T20s, put Phillips level with Colin Munro and Finn Allen for the most by a New Zealander, having also become the third Black Cap \u2013 alongside Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill \u2013 to reach triple figures in all formats, when he made 100 against England<\/a> at The Oval earlier this year. <\/p>\n

That innings in particular felt like the moment Phillips had finally unlocked himself as an international batter. With the balance of New Zealand\u2019s test XI seeing him occupy No 7, in order to balance his bowling workload, Phillips is often asked to play situations that don\u2019t complement his natural abilities<\/a> the way he can in white-ball cricket.<\/p>\n

Regardless of format, though, Phillips\u2019 strength, sublime hand-eye co-ordination and inventiveness set him apart from every other Black Caps batter and make him one of the most eye-catching players in the game.<\/p>\n

While he himself points to a lean spell for the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the Caribbean Premier League as a sign he\u2019s not the finished article, 276 runs at an average of 96 in four games against India point to a player approaching the peak of his powers. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great that you\u2019re seeing all the highs \u2013 it\u2019s fantastic, I love that,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of lows, and a lot of [lessons] throughout the process at the same time.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as test cricket goes, I feel like I\u2019ve been pretty close on a lot of occasions, I ran out of partners a few times. But sometimes there\u2019s a little mark that once you get past, you breathe a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a little bit of a notch in the cap going \u2018I can do it\u2019, you\u2019ve proved it to yourself. Maybe that does take the ease off your shoulders.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it comes back to our team and our environment, the way we share each others\u2019 success, and trying to play for something that\u2019s bigger than yourself. Hopefully that allows us to hopefully have success more often than not.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"GlennGlenn Phillips celebrates his century against India at Eden Park. Photo \/ Alyse Wright<\/p>\n

To make what he did all the more special, Phillips\u2019 Eden Park ton was made all the more significant by the achievement of his younger brother Dale, a few hundred metres away.<\/p>\n

After missing out on a spot in the New Zealand \u201cA\u201d side facing India in three four-day matches, 28-year-old Dale Phillips opened his 50-over Ford Trophy campaign with 112 from just 95 balls in a 33-run victory over Canterbury.<\/p>\n

Dale has long been earmarked as one for the future<\/a> by those in New Zealand cricket circles and the brothers haven\u2019t been shy about their desire to turn out for the Black Caps together.<\/p>\n

And even if New Zealand\u2019s ageing golden generation means the pair might have to wait a bit longer to line up on the same field for the Black Caps, Glenn still appreciates what he gets to see from his brother.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried to watch, I try to watch as much as I possibly can,\u201d Phillips said of Dale. \u201cIt would have been cool to come here and watch him live. But we had the phone up playing the livestream when we were waiting for the plane to take off.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was really cool for him to get off to that sort of start. There\u2019s been a lot of runs in the Ford Trophy at the moment. It\u2019s fantastic for cricket in general, for New Zealand to see what\u2019s coming through, and fantastic for the talent we\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing that we\u2019ve got that depth coming through, not necessarily the next generation, but you do have to keep emerging that talent out to be ready for international cricket.\u201d<\/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":"The century, his third in T20s, put Phillips level with Colin Munro and Finn Allen for the most…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7127,36671,16425,28824,44485,8843,7022,42574,15364,24004,124,8142,5904,9872,21934,305,14648,78,2344,1019,61239,2250,5978,111,139,69,1118,8143,10936,213,21694,19554,1120,131,102,28643],"class_list":["post-648011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-age","tag-always","tag-appears","tag-arrived","tag-batter","tag-believed","tag-black","tag-caps","tag-century","tag-coming","tag-could","tag-eden","tag-final","tag-finally","tag-glenn","tag-have","tag-hed","tag-in","tag-india","tag-international","tag-liked","tag-longer","tag-might","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-park","tag-phillips","tag-sports","tag-step","tag-taken","tag-takes","tag-than","tag-with","tag-worldclass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648011","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=648011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}