A South Africa born, Colin Munro, is an explosive opening batsman who plays New Zealand internationally. He is a hard-hitting left-handed batsman who prefers opening the batting, apart from being a gun fielder and a part-time medium pacer, which makes a complete package for T20 cricket. Munro carries an image of a T20 favourite across the globe, but the all-rounder had his own struggles in the initial days. The Durban-born debuted for Auckland back in 2006 and was also part of New Zealand Under-19, which contested in the World Cup that year. However, Munro didn’t have an instant impact until the 2011-12 season. In his breakthrough season, he scored a century and three fifties for Auckland. And bettered his performances by scoring three centuries in six innings, including an unbeaten 269 in the following season. Soon, the all-rounder was rewarded with a New Zealand call-up, as he was picked for the tour to South Africa in late 2012. On his debut tour, he played three T20Is, two ODIs and a Test match, where he couldn’t do much, apart from hitting his maiden ODI half-century and bagging two Test wickets in Faf du Plessis and Robin Peterson. He remained on the fringes of selection until he blasted 73 off just 39 balls in a T20I clash against Bangladesh in 2013. Since then, Munro became a regular feature of the New Zealand T20 side but has been in and out of the 50-over format, owing to his inconsistencies. His ability to go berserk against any bowling at any condition was backed by Kane Williamson, and he sealed the Number 3 spot for the Kiwis in the 2016 World T20. The all-rounder turned that confidence into performance, showing some consistency in the 2016-17 domestic season, to get back into the ODI squad. The southpaw nailed Brendon McCullum’s spot to become a regular with Martin Guptill at top of the order. That season, the dasher took his game a notch higher as he smacked three T20I centuries in a span of a year in 2017-18