Player of the Match
Player of the Match
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    1.5 Straight to midwicket! This was a slot ball. Seam up. 130ks at the stumps. Samson stayed in the crease and flicked it. Didn't follow through with the shot. Couldn't keep it down either, easy catch for Ravindra. Jamieson is pumped. Samson doesn't start the series well. 18/1
    11.6 Very high, not far enough! Long-on takes it and Abhishek's 84 off 35 ends. He knew that was gone right off the bat. Was a legbreak on a length at middle and off, he tried to launch it mostly with a vertical bat again. He nailed that a lot of times tonight, not this one 149/4
    2.5 Kishan can't take off either. Went for the boundary option and clothed it to cover. Duffy chops the air in delight. 123ks length ball just outside off. Kishan was coming down the track, a pre-meditated move, and the ball got big on him as he tried to flat-bat it over extra. 27/2
    10.4 SKY holes out to long-on. Came down to the fullish stock ball at the stumps. Given air by Santner. SKY looked to drive it over long-on but mistimed it. Robinson ran forward and took a diving catch 126/3
    15.4 Hardik's cameo ends! He goes like he stayed. Hard-length offcutter at 121ks at the body. Hardik stood back in the crease and pulled it. Got it off the sticker, deep midwicket takes it a few metres inside the boundary 185/6
    13.4 Leading edge right back to the bowler. 122ks back of length cutter at the body, Dube went back and tried to nudge it leg side, too early into the shot. The runs keep coming for India but wickets have been regular too 166/5
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    17.5 Mitchell takes it at long-off. Was a fullish ball outside off that Axar tried to reach out to. Couldn't fully do it and ended up skying it 209/7
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    15 (lb 1, w 14)
    TOTAL
    238/7 (20 Overs, RR: 11.9)
    Did not bat: CV Varun, JJ Bumrah
    Fall of wickets: 1-18 (Sanju Samson, 1.5 ov), 2-27 (Ishan Kishan, 2.5 ov), 3-126 (Suryakumar Yadav, 10.4 ov), 4-149 (Abhishek Sharma, 11.6 ov), 5-166 (Shivam Dube, 13.4 ov), 6-185 (Hardik Pandya, 15.4 ov), 7-209 (Axar Patel, 17.5 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    JA Duffy402726.75143130
    KA Jamieson4054213.565330
    KDC Clarke404011082300
    IS Sodhi3038112.6634210
    GD Phillips102002003010
    MJ Santner3037112.3332310
    DJ Mitchell102102122210
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    0.2 Edge... Samson takes a low catch to the left. He didn't step across, just dove the left and got it in his left hand. Was a 132ks fullish ball well wide of off. Conway reaching away for the cover drive. Didn't check the shot and nearly lost his bottom hand. Snicked off. 0/1
    6.3 Robinson charges and falls. Looked to heave it across with a cross-bat, ball went off the sticker, blade turned inside too and the ball went to midwicket. 95ks legbreak with a cross-seam from Varun. Slightly short, sped off the pitch 52/3
    1.3 Ravindra edges to slip and Hardik waves goodbye. 133ks seam-up ball on a length at leg stump. Ravindra charged down the pitch and got cramped for room, went through with the straight drive on top of the bounce. Got a thick edge to first slip 1/2
    13.3 Phillips yells right after hitting as he knew he mistimed this. Dube moved to his right, fell on his right knee and took it low. Was a length ball angling in at the stumps, Phillips looking to pull it, doesn't get all of it. Hit just under the sticker. Axar pumps his fists 131/4
    14.5 Straight up. Abhishek comes in across from long-on and takes it. Chapman charged down and had a horizontal swipe across. Stock ball landed around leg and rose off the pitch. Chapman couldn't deal with the bounce and got a top edge. 143/5
    19.3 Wide and fullish, Mitchell takes a step across and launches a drive off the bottom of the bat. Bishnoi runs left from long-off, takes it and runs along the boundary to SKY's delight 189/6
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    19.4 Full toss has been slapped straight to long-on. Clarke's back foot was on the tramline, Dube's plan has been to bowl wide anyway, so he went for the yorker. Clarke hit it from knee-height, not perfectly timed. Two in two for Dube 189/7
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    TOTAL
    190/7 (20 Overs, RR: 9.5)
    Did not bat: IS Sodhi, JA Duffy
    Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Devon Conway, 0.2 ov), 2-1 (Rachin Ravindra, 1.3 ov), 3-52 (Tim Robinson, 6.3 ov), 4-131 (Glenn Phillips, 13.3 ov), 5-143 (Mark Chapman, 14.5 ov), 6-189 (Daryl Mitchell, 19.3 ov), 7-189 (Kristian Clarke, 19.4 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    Arshdeep Singh403117.7593100
    HH Pandya202011052110
    JJ Bumrah302909.6645000
    AR Patel3.304211254210
    CV Varun403729.2571300
    S Dube302829.3351200
    Abhishek Sharma0.3030610000

Match Details

Toss

New Zealand , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Series result

India led the 5-match series 1-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.00 start, First Session 19.00-20.30, Interval 20.30-20.50, Second Session 20.50-22.20

Match days

21 January 2026 - night match (20-over match)

T20I debut

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Match Notes

New Zealand 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st0DP ConwayTB Robinson
2nd1R RavindraTB Robinson
3rd51GD PhillipsTB Robinson
4th79MS ChapmanGD Phillips
5th12DJ MitchellMS Chapman
6th46DJ MitchellMJ Santner
7th0MJ SantnerKDC Clarke
8th1MJ SantnerKA Jamieson