Match Centre
Match Details
Toss
Player Of The Match
Series result
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
Match days
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Scorecard Summary
NEW ZEALAND 230/9 (50 OVERS)
- Colin de Grandhomme41 (40)
- Henry Nicholls42 (62)
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar3/45 (10)
- Yuzvendra Chahal2/36 (8)
INDIA 232/4 (46 OVERS)
- Shikhar Dhawan68 (84)
- Dinesh Karthik*64 (92)
- Adam Milne1/21 (8)
- Mitchell Santner1/38 (10)
Scorer: Sanjay Murari | Commentator: Alagappan Muthu
END OF OVER:46 | 7 Runs | IND: 232/4 | RR: 5.04
- Dinesh Karthik64 (92b)
- MS Dhoni18 (21b)
- Tim Southee9-1-60-1
- Adam Milne8-1-21-1
That's all we have from commentary. Thank you for your company. Good night
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the Man of the Match. "That's my nature, I'm calm, and however you practice you replicate that. I never try to do anything different. It's the way I bowl, with the new ball, I swing it. It wasn't happening today, so I just tried to bowl in good areas, got two wickets and that gave me confidence. Things get easier for you when you're confident. There's no easy route to success, but with confidence, you can do those good things better. I'm not muscular, but thanks to the trainer, introducing player-specific training, I feel much confident and stronger when it comes to fitness"
"Pretty good game for us today. Exactly what we spoke at toss time. Pitch would be slow in the evening, better to bat at night," Virat Kohli says. "Great to see Bummrah and Bhuvi, they are our top two bowlers, they know they will start more often than not, so they can create plans. And today with the wicket being slow, it was great to see them getting batsmen out in conventional ways, not ugly wickets. Shikhar has been playing very well, one odd game he's faltered, but he's hitting the ball really well and he's getting good runs at the top. Dinesh as well, getting crucial runs for himself and for the team. We look forward to any challenge on us. We spoke about needing to bounce back, and we've done that."
9.10 pm "One of those surfaces where if you get a good score on the board and squeeze, the bowlers would have made life difficult," Kane Williamson says. "We weren't good enough at the top, India's opening bowlers were very very well, hit the mark,
the length on that surface. There's a lesson there for us. And we know we have to play a lot better to beat these guys. The surface wasn't easy to play fluently and Colin came out and went at run-a-ball. We came here with high hopes, we put a much better performance in Mumbai and we need to be better again in Kanpur"
9.00 pm The groundwork for this victory was in the backroom, with India working on methods to stop New Zealand's batsmen from profiting with the sweep shot. They brought in a spinner who bowls flat and wicket to wicket and they also had a pitch that helped the fast bowlers. With that little bit of movement in the air and off the pitch, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah picked up five wickets between them to strangle New Zealand to 230.
Thereafter, it was only a matter of some of the top-order batsmen stepping up. Shikhar Dhawan did, with a fifty, and so did Dinesh Karthik, from No. 4, a position that has been difficult for India. "It was important to spend time in the middle," he says. "Important to stay there till the end. Maybe I took a bit more time, but with confidence, everything comes. You have a lot of demons to fight on the comeback trail. A lot of credit to Ravi Shastri and Virat Kohli to give me the confidence to go there and play my game. It was slow pitch, after the new ball, scoring runs was tricky. So I wanted us not to lose wickets. Not able to put into words what I'm feeling, got a good score in this game, but I have to win more matches, when the required rate is high, I need to score more boundaries and win those games."
Madan: "@Darshan: In this day and age, you can't possibly find a player who will own a position for 5-6 years. The best you could do and what is done is planning for the next world cup. Having said that, if Dhoni is an integral part for WC19, he should play no.4 as often as possible to get used to it. There's no other logical position for him right now."
santosh battula: "@Real : I think it in the other way. Let us play till the last over letting them bowl the full quota and get them tired mentally enough too.. :-P"
Shreyanshu: "Dinesh 3 boundaries in 90 balls. Dhoni 3 boundaries in 17 balls."
Raja: "@Shreyanshu - India needed 151 when Karthik came and India needed 26 when Dhoni came in... Dont compare"
Real: "Once required run under 50 India should have gone for the kill to take psychological advantage for decider." ---- It's not really that kind of pitch though. The pace is slow, and New Zealand have bowled reasonably well through the middle overs
New Zealand in India 2017-18 News
How India's attack thrives under pressure
The skill of the bowlers and the faith imposed in them has allowed India to defend totals against strong batting line-ups and fight back from some losing positions
Chopra: Bumrah becoming India's most important asset in limited overs
India have their batting top order and bowling department covered, and a solution to their middle-order muddle could put them on the way to becoming one of the best T20 sides in the world
Unfair to target MS Dhoni - Virat Kohli
The India captain defended MS Dhoni emphasising the latter's fitness despite his age, and his contributions and importance to the side
NZ very good, just not quite good enough - Williamson
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said the team will have to improve on clinching the small margins in close matches, after they lost both the ODI and T20I series deciders in India by six runs
Chahal, Bumrah help India edge eight-over shootout
India completed a 2-1 T20I series win after their bowlers defended 67 in a decider shortened by rain to eight overs a side