IND VS NZ 2nd T20: India defeated New Zealand by 6 wickets in the second match of t20 series played today between India and New Zealand. By winning this match, India has tied New Zealand at 1-1 in the series.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20 Match Highlights
The 2nd match of the T20 series between India and New Zealand was played today at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Cricket Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow. Today New Zealand won the toss and Captain Mitchell Santner decided to bat first.
Batting first, New Zealand scored 99 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs and set a target of 100 runs in front of India.
Chasing 100 runs, it was not easy for India to achieve this target. New Zealand’s bowlers took full advantage from the pitch and fought till the last over of the match. On the fifth ball of the 20th over, Surya Kumar Yadav hit a boundary over the head of the mid-off fielder and gave India the win.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: Player of The Match
Vice-captain @surya_14kumar remained unbeaten in a tricky chase and bagged the Player of the Match award as #TeamIndia registered a 6-wicket victory in Lucknow 👏👏
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Surya Kumar was awarded the player of the match award. Surya Kumar scored 26 runs in 31 balls and contributed significantly to India’s victory.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: A Talk Between Surya, Chahal & Kuldeep Yadav
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IND VS NZ 2nd T20: Both Team Playing 11
One change was made by the Indian team. Spinner Yuzvendra Chahal was included in the playing 11 in place of fast bowler Umran Malik. No change was made from New Zealand side.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: India Playing 11
Ishan Kishan (wk), Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (c), Deepak Hooda, Washington Sundar, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Umran Malik, Arshdeep Singh
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: New Zealand Playing 11
Finn Allen, Devon Conway (wk), Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner (c), Michael Bracewell, Jacob Duffy, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Blair Tickner
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IND VS NZ 2nd T20: Full Match Highlights
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: New Zealand Batting
New Zealand did not start as expected. Coming in to bat, Finn Allen and Devon Conway got New Zealand off to a slow start today.
Today again the pitch was slow and helping the spin bowlers and the New Zealand batsmen were unable to judge the ball. For this reason, New Zealand could only score 11 runs in the first 3 overs.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 1st Wicket- New Zealand’s first wicket fell in the fourth over. Due to not scoring runs, Finn Allen came under pressure and got clean bowled due to playing the wrong shot. Yuzvendra Chahal got him out on a personal score of 11 runs.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 2nd Wicket- New Zealand’s second wicket fell in the form of devon Conway. Conway scored only 11 runs today and was the victim of Washington Sundar.
New Zealand scored only 32 runs in 6 overs of their power play and gave away 2 wickets of their top order.
New Zealand were losing wickets at regular intervals and due to this the New Zealand batsmen were playing under constant pressure.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 3rd Wicket- Then New Zealand’s third wicket fell in the 7th over. Glenn Phillips didn’t play Deepak Hooda’s ball on the right merit and got clean bowled. Phillips scored 5 runs and made his way to the pavilion.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 4th Wicket- New Zealand’s fourth wicket fell in the form of Daryl Mitchell. Kuldeep Yadav got him clean bowled on a personal score of 8 runs.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: Score After 10 Over- New Zealand could only manage 43 runs in the first 10 overs losing 4 wickets and were now playing under complete pressure.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 5th Wicket- Due to this pressure, Mark Chapman was also dismissed in the 13th over. He scored 14 runs and was run out by Kuldeep Yadav as the fifth wicket.
After the arrival of captain Mitchell Santner, the process of falling wickets stopped for a while, but New Zealand’s wicket fell again in the 17th over. Michael Bracewell was dismissed for 14 runs as the sixth wicket.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 6th Wicket- Bracewell played an upper cut shot towards the third man off Hardik Pandya, which was brilliantly caught by Arshdeep Singh standing at the third man point.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 7th & 8th Wicket- Arshdeep Singh, who came to bowl in the 18th over, took 2 wickets. Arshdeep dismissed Ish Sodhi for 2 runs and Loki Ferguson for duck.
New Zealand could only manage 99 runs losing 8 wickets in their entire 20 overs and set a target of 100 runs in front of India.
Captain Mitchell Santner scored the most runs for New Zealand. He faced 22 balls and scored 19 runs and remained not out till the end.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: India Bowling
All the bowlers bowled well for India. Captain Hardik used 2 spinners in the powerplay itself due to the help of the pitch to the slow bowlers and it was also effective.
Apart from Shivam Mavi, all the bowlers got wickets from India today. Arshdeep Singh took 2 wickets, while captain Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal and Washington Sundar took 1–1.
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IND VS NZ 2nd T20: India Batting
Chasing the target of 99 runs, the start of India was also not very good. Ishaan and Shubman Gill, who got down to the opening, started playing carefully on the spin balls.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 1st Wicket- But in the fourth over, Shubman Gill could not control himself and while trying to play a big shot, pulled Michael Bracewell’s ball down the leg side and caught Finn Allen standing at the boundary.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 2nd Wicket- India’s second wicket fell in the form of Ishan Kishan, he was run out for two runs in the 9th over. Ishaan Kishan got out after scoring 19 runs.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: India had scored 49 runs losing 2 wickets in the first 10 overs Rahul Tripathi and Surya Kumar Yadav were standing on the field. The wicket was helping the slow bowlers a lot, so India was increasing its run score at a slow pace while protecting its wicket.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 3rd Wicket- India’s third wicket fell in the form of Rahul Tripathi. Rahul Tripathi played a pull shot off Ish Sodhi which went into the hands of Glenn Phillips standing at the boundary. Rahul Tripathi contributed 13 runs.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: 4th Wicket- India’s fourth wicket fell in the 15th over when there was a misunderstanding between Surya Kumar and Washington Sundar while running and Washington Sundar was run out. Washington Sundar scored 10 runs.
Due to the tight bowling of New Zealand, this match was getting stuck. Both Indian batsman Suryakumar and skipper Hardik Pandya were finding it difficult to score runs.
India needed 6 runs in the 20th over and Blair Tickner came to bowl for New Zealand.
India was able to score only 3 runs in the first 4 balls. Only then on the fifth ball, Surya Kumar took a risk and hit the ball over mid-off for a four to give India the win.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: New Zealand Bowling
Although New Zealand could not win this match, but there was excellent bowling from their side. All the bowlers took full advantage of the assistance provided by the pitch and bowled tight and took the match to the end.
For New Zealand, Ish Sodhi and Michael Bracewell took one wicket each.
IND VS NZ 2nd T20: Conclusion
By winning this match, India has tied New Zealand at 1-1 in the series. Now it will be known from the last match of this series who will claim the ISS T20 series. The last T20 match of this series will be played on February 1st, at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.