Notts Outlaws have secured the services of New Zealand international and serial T20 trophy-winner Colin Munro for the duration of the 2023 Vitality Blast.

The explosive left-hander will make our world-renowned white-ball venue his home this summer, having compiled a simply stunning statistical record in the game's shortest format.

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9,195 – T20 runs

In thirteen years as a leading T20 gun-for-hire, Munro has amassed quite the formidable record.

His 9,195 runs to date have come at a career strike-rate of 140.87, with an average of 30.65 and no fewer than 53 half-centuries.

Munro’s appetite for compiling game-changing totals is clear too – his five centuries include three in New Zealand colours and a career-best 114* from 73 balls for Perth Scorchers in last winter’s BBL.

 

12th – Munro's place in the all-time list of twenty-over run-scorers

Munro sits in elevated company amongst his fellow white-ball run-getters, sandwiched between India titan Shikhar Dhawan and World Cup-winning captain Jos Buttler in the T20 record books.

He is New Zealand’s second-most productive scorer in the format behind Brendon McCullum, and will be looking to forge a successful alliance with seventh-placed Alex Hales in Outlaws colours this summer.

 

123 – New Zealand caps

In the space of little over a month during the South African summer of 2012/13, Munro made his Blackcaps debut in all three formats of the international game, and was a familiar face in the Kiwis’ white-ball sides for seven seasons.

Across 65 appearances in IT20 cricket, the left-hander has hit 1,724 runs at 31.34, and has maintained a proactive strike-rate of 156.44.

 

3 – IT20 Centuries

Munro's tally of IT20 tons is second only to Indian powerhouse Rohit Sharma.

His three centuries for his nation included an unbeaten 109 from 58 deliveries against an India attack featuring the likes of Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Siraj, while he also turned in matchwinning three-figure contributions against Bangladesh (101 from 54) and West Indies 104 from 53).

 

14 – balls required to score the fastest fifty by any New Zealander

When Martin Guptill carved his way to a half-century from just 19 deliveries against Sri Lanka in 2016, easily outpacing Aaron Redmond’s existing record for the fastest fifty in New Zealand colours, he may have felt it would be a record which would stand the test of time.

In the event, it was surpassed a matter of minutes later.

In smashing 50 from just 14 deliveries, including no fewer than seven sixes, Munro set a record for his country which remains in place some seven years later.

Indeed, only Yuvraj Singh has reached fifty for a leading ICC nation at a faster rate, in bludgeoning his way to the milestone from 12 balls against England in the 2007 World T20.

 

8 – T20 titles

The sweet, sweet taste of silverware-sealing success is one which Munro has become most accustomed to in the limited-overs game.

From triumph with Trent Rockets in the most recent edition of The Hundred to BBL glory with Perth Scorchers earlier in 2022, and with a brace of trophies secured in the CPL, the top-order batter has assembled an enviable record in cricket’s some of highest-profile short-form competitions.

Three T20 titles in his native New Zealand, and victory in the 2018/19 Afghanistan Premier League with Chris Gayle for company at the top of the order, further swell the 35-year-old’s list of honours.

 

4 – T20 Blast seasons

This summer, Munro will be reunited with fellow 2022 Trent Rockets Alex Hales, Steven Mullaney, Samit Patel, Luke Fletcher, Tom Moores and Matthew Carter as the septet plot an assault on the 2023 Vitality Blast.

The southpaw will bring familiarity with the venue from his stint in Rockets yellow, and knowledge of the rhythms of an English T20 campaign from stints with Worcestershire Rapids and Hampshire.

In those four summers on British soil, Munro has breached the 1,000-run mark in the competition, passing fifty on five occasions.

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Notts Outlaws will go toe-to-toe with the country's finest in short-format cricket in 2023, with seven Vitality Blast fixtures set to take place upon Trent Bridge's hallowed turf, and a further four home clashes in the One-Day Cup. 

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