Sportskeeda Cricket Awards 2016: T20I Team of the Year

#5 New Zealand

The Black Caps looked like the team to beat in 2016, maintaining an 80% win percentage at the end of the year. However, the voting pipelines went dry for the Kiwis.

At fifth place are perennial dark horses in any format, the Kiwis, who didn’t play too many T20s in 2016. They started off with back to back series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan, both of which ended in the Kiwis’ victory. They managed to down India in their World T20 fixture, and looked like the team to beat in the tournament, but stumbled against England in the semi-finals, bringing an abrupt end to their campaign that had a run of four consecutive wins until then.

In all, they played ten matches, winning eight of them and ending with the highest winning percentage amongst all international teams this year.

Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	No Result	Win %age
10	8	2	0	0	80%