Glenn Phillips breaks record for most runs in a T20I series against India

Glenn Phillips set a new record for the most runs scored in a bilateral T20 international series, finishing the five-match series against India with 341 runs. The record came in the fifth and final match, played on Sunday, 1 November.

Phillips had entered the final game with 276 runs. He had scored 107 off 49 balls in the fourth match, played on Friday, 30 October. The fifth-match innings carried him past the previous record for a series between two teams.

An innings and a defeat

One report said Phillips made a century and three half-centuries across the series. New Zealand still lost the series 2-3. In the last match, Tim Seifert scored 93, a knock that one report said lifted the team's spirits as it looks to build on the series.

The sources do not describe the full scorecard of the final match or the margin of defeat.

Background to the record

Phillips had been close to the record before the final game. Reports before the fifth match said he needed another 56 runs to break it. He reached that target and went well beyond it.

For cricket fans in India, the series was a long, high-scoring contest in which a visiting batter repeatedly punished the home side's bowling. Indian supporters will remember the result as a 3-2 series win.

New Zealand's cricket board has not said what comes next for the squad in this sources' account, and the reports do not give details of the team's future fixtures.