Colin Munro became the first overseas player to make a Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL) century as he played a remarkable lone hand that helped the Trinbago Knight Riders to reach a competitive score against the Guyana Amazon Warriors, but not a winning one.

Despite the New Zealander’s heroics the Knight Riders finished on the losing side as Australian Chris Lynn saw the Guyana franchise home as unlike in the Trinbago innings there were contributions by all the Amazon Warriors’ batsmen.

As well as it being the first ton by a non-West Indian it was also Munro’s highest score in T20 cricket, but the issue was no other Knight Rider could find a way to score freely. The level to which Munro dominated the Knight Riders innings was just remarkable, he struck 13 boundaries including six Hero Maximums, the rest of team found the ropes just three times.

When Munro came to the crease the circumstances could not have been more trying. Fellow New Zealander and Knight Riders’ marquee player Brendon McCullum had gone to the very first ball of the innings. A length delivery from Sohail Tanvir swung away from McCullum very slightly and it caught a thin edge through to the keeper. So Munro walked out to bat to face the second ball of the innings with no runs on the board.

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