New Zealand’s Colin Munro Accepts International Career Likely Over

New Zealand’s hard-hitting batter Colin Munro has accepted that his international career is likely over and he has moved on, despite believing his record still stacks up against others at the top of New Zealand’s order.

This comes after Munro, who has 1724 runs in 65 T20Is with 3 centuries and 11 fifties to his name at an average of 31.34 and strike-rate of 156.44,  was omitted from the Black Caps squad for the recent T20 World Cup 2021 which was played in the UAE and saw Australia beating his home team to win their maiden T20 crown.

Munro said his career had appeared to be ended “not by choice.” He had made himself unavailable for the pre-World Cup trips to Bangladesh and Pakistan.

“Yeah, at the time, to be honest I was very disappointed. But now I’ve made peace with it, towards the back end my career, I can’t be too bitter. I’ve grown up a little bit, if this was 25 or 26-year-old Colin getting that information I would have been all over social media too much. Whereas now I’ve sort of just gone about my business and know that chapter is probably closed. And I’m just fortunate enough that there are some leagues around the world that I can still ply my trade and get looked after pretty well,” he said.

“My Records Are There And Everyone Can Have A Look At It,” says Colin Munro

The left-handed opener last played a T20I n February 2020 against India. Since the resumption of cricket, Munro has participated in CPL, BBL, PSL, and the Hundred. This year he is averaging 38.39 with a strike rate of 130.46 and has passed 1000 runs for the second time in a calendar year after his prolific 2018 where he made 1530 runs at 34.00.

“My records are there and everyone can have a look at it. But since opening the batting three, four years ago, my numbers are really, really good. But it’s not always about the numbers, I think I also fit in really well to the team, offer a little bit of leadership, which would probably help playing franchise cricket where you go in as an overseas player and try and give back to that environment as much as you can,” Munro was quoted by ESPNCricinfo.

Colin Munro will turn up for the Perth Scorchers in the upcoming BBL 2021-22 season.

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