Grandhomme in a sentence

After Watling and de Grandhomme batted New Zealand away from disaster, Bairstow caught de Grandhomme from Broad’s bowling to ensure England retained the upper hand at stumps.

Needing 18 off the final two overs, an eight-ball 19th over from Adam Finch proved costly as a wide and a no-ball was followed up by 11 runs before Mitchell and Colin de Grandhomme got the hosts over the line.

Allrounder de Grandhomme showed good attacking intent and reached his eighth test half century with a six off Lyon, before he lofted his next delivery to Burns in the deep and was out for 52.

Dube got rid of Munro in the ninth over while Colin de Grandhomme (3) failed to get going once again.

Ultimately, the Black Caps bowlers provided nowhere near enough support to de Grandhomme and Wagner, with Matt Henry finishing the day with no wickets for 68 on his return to the team.

Both teams made one change from the first Test with New Zealand bringing in de Grandhomme for specialist spinner Mitchell Santner.

But, when he was strangled down the legside, the Black Caps still needed 54 to win – a task made even trickier when de Grandhomme (15) and Neesham (25) both departed to needlessly aggressive shots.

Captain Kane Williamson steadied the ship with a gritty 41 before Jimmy Neesham and Colin de Grandhomme shared a sixth-wicket partnership of 132 which lifted the Black Caps to a respectable total.

Colin de Grandhomme should have been a goner if not for Madusunka falling flat on his back.

Expensive over from Colin de Grandhomme.

Going into the auction, RCB off-loaded Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, and Colin de Grandhomme along with nine other players.

He bowled one ball above 130kph in England’s opening victory at Christchurch - a decent bouncer which Colin de Grandhomme ducked - but the rest were variations on a medium-paced theme.

He smacked three straight boundaries from Jimmy Neesham – New Zealand's only loose bowler – and had progressed to a near run-a-ball 64 before nibbling a de Grandhomme dobbler through to Tom Latham.

He will replace the injured Colin de Grandhomme in Hamilton, but New Zealand have delayed a decision on whether Matt Henry or Lockie Ferguson will come in for injured bowling spearhead Trent Boult.

Isuru Udana into the attack, seven runs from his over including a boundary from Colin de Grandhomme's bat.

Ross Taylor, Henry Nicholls and B.J. Watling all failed to reach double figures, before Colin de Grandhomme fell for 11 as New Zealand wobbled to 102-6 at lunch.

The 36-year-old came back into the attack when the Kiwis were making their way back into the game and got the wicket of Colin de Grandhomme with another yorker squaring up the all-rounder.

The 36-year-old then cleaned up de Grandhomme, for 44, to achieve the feat in his 74th T20 match of his illustrious career.

Then comes the short ball but it's a fairly wide one which De Grandhomme pulls for six, handsomely.

While Watling, who brought up his hundred off 251 balls, wore England down, de Grandhomme played the shots and drove handsomely.