Team India defeated New Zealand by six wickets in the second T20 match. With this victory, he has equalized 1-1 in the three-match series. In this match held at Lucknow’s Ekana Stadium, New Zealand had given a target of 100 runs to Team India to win, which it achieved with one ball remaining. The third T20 match will be played in Ahmedabad on February 1.
India had got the target of 100 runs, but despite this the match went till the last over. Kiwi bowlers have to be praised for taking the match till the last over. New Zealand spinners Michael Bracewell, Ish Sodhi and captain Mitchell Santner bowled brilliantly. Even in the first T20 match, the Kiwi spinners troubled the Indian batsmen a lot.
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In the last over of this match, India had to score six runs to win. In such a situation, Blair Tickner was called by captain Mitchell Santner for bowling. Only three runs were scored in the first four balls due to which the pressure had come on India. Now three runs were to be scored in two balls, in such a situation, Suryakumar Yadav gave the team victory by hitting a four on the fifth ball. Suryakumar Yadav scored 26 not out and captain Hardik Pandya scored 15 not out.
This is how the last over of the match
1st ball – 1 run
Second ball – 0 runs
Third ball – 1 run
Fourth ball – 1 run
Fifth ball – 4 runs
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… then Ishaan Kishan did not go
The start of the Indian innings was bad and Shubman Gill became the victim of Bracewell in the fourth over. Gill had scored only 11 runs. After this, there was a 29-run partnership between Ishaan Kishan and Rahul Tripathi. Then it seemed that both the players would return to the pavilion only after winning the match, but this could not happen. Ishaan Kishan was run-out after scoring 19 runs. After some time, Rahul Tripathi also started walking. When Rahul got out on a personal score of 13 runs, India’s score was 50 runs and the 11th over was going on. After Rahul, India also lost the wicket of Washington Sundar who was run out. Then Surya-Hardik shared a useful partnership of 31 runs to win the team.
New Zealand’s batting was also very slow
Earlier, winning the toss and electing to bat first, New Zealand got off to a poor start and lost the wickets of both openers Finn Allen (11) and Devon Conway (11) for 28 runs in the fifth over. In the fourth over, Allen was lbw in an attempt to reverse sweep the ball of leg-spinner Chahal. Then in the next over, in an attempt to play a reverse sweep off Washington’s ball, Conway handed an easy catch to Ishaan Kishan.
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Deepak Hooda also took advantage of the spin friendly pitch, who bowled Glenn Phillips (05). Mark Chapman (14) and Daryl Mitchell (08) stood on the wicket for some time but Kuldeep Yadav bowled Mitchell on the last ball of the 10th over to reduce New Zealand’s score to 48 for four. The process of falling wickets of New Zealand continued and their innings could never catch momentum. As a result, after 20 overs, he scored 99 runs for eight wickets.
Captain Mitchell Santner scored the most unbeaten 19 runs. Indian spinners Yuzvendra Chahal, Deepak Hooda, Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav together took four wickets for 55 runs in 13 overs. During this, all the four players got one wicket each. Arshdeep Singh was the most successful Indian bowler with two wickets. The dominance of the bowlers can be gauged from the fact that only six fours were hit in New Zealand’s entire innings.