Global T20 Canada, CWI B Team vs Montreal Tigers, 16th Match, Round 2: 5 Talking Points

#2 Sunil Narine’s blazing 61

Sunil Narine has been getting starts throughout this competition. But he hadn't crossed the 30-run mark in this tournament even once.

However, in what turned out to be the Tigers’ last game of the tournament, he scored a superb 25-ball 61 helping his team get off to a flying start. In his 25-ball knock, the West Indian spinner-cum opener smashed 9 sixes and had just one four.

Narine thumped one over the mid-wicket boundary in the first over to get going. By the end of the 5th over, Narine had reached 29 in 16 balls before he went berserk in the final over of the powerplay. He thrashed Derval Green for 4 back-to-back sixes and brought up his fifty in style (in 21 balls). He was eventually dismissed for 61, but the damage had already been done. He set it up for the middle-order to walk in and get the job done.