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ENG vs NZ: Number 7 player scored a historic test century, joined the special club of McCullum and Guptill

By Samira Vishwas

ENG vs NZ: New Zealand’s star all-rounder Glenn Phillips has scored a historic century against England at The Oval. The second Test match of the 3-Test series between England and New Zealand is being played from June 17. On the second day of this match, in difficult conditions, New Zealand’s star all-rounder Glenn Phillips scored a century and took the team to a respectable score. This is Phillips’s first test century. With this century he has made a big record. Glenn Fissipps has joined the exclusive club of Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill.

Glenn Phillips batted in difficult times for New Zealand

In the Oval Test, England won the toss and decided to bowl first. The New Zealand team, which came to bat after losing the toss, was in trouble on the very first day, because the Kiwi team had lost 7 wickets at the score of 280 runs on the very first day. Glenn Phillips came to bat at number 7. He handled New Zealand’s innings on the first day and saved it from being all out.

Glenn Phillips scored his first test century

After this, on the second day, New Zealand started its innings at 291 runs for 7 wickets. Glenn Phillips made a good partnership with Kais Jamieson, but Jamieson was out. He scored 41 runs. After this, Matt Henry also went away after scoring 5 runs. New Zealand lost the last wicket in the form of Glenn Phillips, but he had taken the team to a good score. New Zealand team scored 391 runs in the first innings. Glenn Phillips played a brilliant inning of 100 runs in 135 balls. During this period, 18 fours came from his bat. This is his first century in Test cricket.

Glenn Phillips becomes the third player to score a century in all three formats for New Zealand

Glenn Phillips has made a record with this century. In fact, Glenn Phillips has now become only the third player for New Zealand to score centuries in all three formats (Test, ODI and T20). Before him, only Brendon McCullum and Martin Guptill had achieved this feat for New Zealand. Now Philips’ name has been registered in this special list.

Glenn Phillips has played a total of 18 test matches for New Zealand so far. During this period, he batted in 31 innings and scored a total of Has scored 853 runs, which includes 5 half-centuries apart from one century. Glenn Phillips A total of 1262 runs have been scored in 47 ODI matches. During this period he has scored 2 centuries and 5 half-centuries. While talking about his T20 International career, Phillips has scored a total of 2286 runs while playing in 97 matches, which includes 2 centuries and 12 half-centuries.

Also read: Explainer: What was ‘Cricket Max’ that laid the foundation of T20 format, it was the idea of ​​this captain of New Zealand, not England.

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