The first semi-final of the T20 World Cup 2021 was played between England and New Zealand at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi. In this exciting match, New Zealand defeated England by 5 wickets. Thanks to this win, New Zealand will now play the T20 World Cup final for the first time in 14 years. Darrell Mitchell has been the hero of this historic victory of the Kiwi team. Mitchell played an innings of 72 not out off 47 balls.
His innings came at a time when the team needed it the most. Chasing the target of 167 runs, New Zealand had lost two of their special batsmen on the score of just 13 runs. In such a situation, Mitchell gave the team a memorable victory by making important partnerships with Conway and Nisham. After the dismissal of Nisham, when the team needed 20 runs in the last 2 overs, Mitchell gave the team victory by hitting 19 runs in the same over.
Who is Darrell Mitchell, the hero of New Zealand's victory
Darrell Joseph Mitchell was born on 20 May 1991 in Hamilton. His father John Mitchell has been a player and coach of the New Zealand rugby team. Darrell also played rugby in his childhood, but he started playing cricket when his father became the coach of a rugby club in England. When he was 16 years old, his father started coaching in the Rugby Club of Australia. Here too Mitchell continued to play his cricket. Gradually his cricket got better, and in 2019 he got an opportunity to make his international debut. Mitchell is a middle order batsman and right arm medium fast bowler.
Williamson sent him for the opening in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup. This experiment of the captain was also successful. Mitchell made his T20 International debut on 6 February 2019 in Wellington match against India. Darrell has played 21 T20 Internationals so far. During this, he has scored 345 runs at an average of 24.64 and strike rate of 139.11. Apart from this, Mitchell has also taken 5 wickets in T20 International.
