IND vs NZ 1st T20 Highlights: India lose by 21 runs at Ranchi
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IND vs NZ 1st T20 Highlights: India lose by 21 runs at Ranchi

India trail the three-match T20I series 0-1

Ronald ChettiarUpdated: Saturday, January 28, 2023, 09:11 PM IST
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27 January 2023 06:31 PM IST

Hello and welcome to Live updates of the India vs NZ, 1st T20I at Ranchi. India are set for a T20 appetiser ahead of their marquee Test series against Australia. With less than two weeks left for the Border Gavaskar Trophy matches against Australia that will determine India's World Test Championship Final fate, a T20 series in the midst of a packed ODI calendar ahead of the 50-over World Cup may seem purposeless. As a result, Hardik Pandya, who led a 2-1 series win over Sri Lanka earlier this month, is back leading the T20 side with some regulars and fringe players in the squad. While skipper Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, Mohammed Siraj and Mohammed Shami are being rested, the likes of Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan and Kuldeep Yadav will get an extended run before they assemble for Test series camp at Nagpur from February 2.    

27 January 2023 06:31 PM IST

Pitch report: The pitch is excellent. There is an even cover of grass. The bounce will come on nicely. An excellent track to bat, says Ajit Agarkar      

27 January 2023 06:31 PM IST

Here's how the team went ahead with the practice, see pics   

27 January 2023 06:31 PM IST

Ahead of Team India's first T20I against New Zealand in Ranchi, former Indian skipper and wicketkeeper-batter MS Dhoni stopped by at the JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi and interacted with the Men in Blue.

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

Hardik Pandya gets the toss right and opts to bowl considering the due factor  

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

Hardik: Looks like a good track. I can see dew right now. Just go out there and play the best cricket we know. It is a young team. We will focus on playing good cricket. Playing the ODIs before T20Is makes it easy to pass on. For a lot of them it is an experience just being in the team. Yuzi, Mukesh, Jitesh and Prithvi miss out.

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST
27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

India (playing XI): Ishan Kishan (w), Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya (c), Deepak Hooda, Washington Sundar, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Umran Malik, Arshdeep Singh

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

NZ (playing XI): Finn Allen, Devon Conway (w), Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner (c), Michael Bracewell, Jacob Duffy, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Blair Tickner

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

Kuldeep Yadav gets a T20 game after a long time. No place for Yuzvendra Chahal in the playing XI. 

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has heaped praise on Suryakumar Yadav, saying the right-handed batter is doing better than anyone's ever done it. "Suryakumar's probably doing it better than anyone's ever done it right now. We talk about players that can score 360 degrees. some of the shots he's hitting back behind the wicket-keeper and over fine leg are just remarkable. Five or six years ago, he started doing that a lot in the IPL. He was very good at flicking the ball over deep-backwards square and getting the ball over fine-leg. Surya's now been able to hit short balls on the way up and flick short balls over the keeper's head and they're going for six, not just for four," said Ponting in the latest episode of The ICC Review show.

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

Time for the national anthem as both teams line up before the action  

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

Captain Hardik Pandya opens the bowling for India. Meanwhile, Finn Allen and Devon Conway take guard for NZ

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

Hardik Pandya is looking pumped-up as he gives an earful to the umpire for giving a wide in the very first over. We are up for an intense game   

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST
27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

OUT! Finn Allen gone. Washington Sundar has been getting the ball to spin and that has worked for him Allen plays one in the air and is caught by Surya. NZ 43-1   

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

OUT! Mark Chapman 0 (4) perishes without troubling the scorers. What a catch by Washington Sundar. He dived full length to his right to take it with both hands. The third umpire had a look but gave it out. NZ 43-2

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST
27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

OUT! Glenn Phillips 17 (22) departs. Kuldeep Yadav gets his first of the match. A tossed up delivery and Glenn Phillips goes for the slog sweep and hits it high to find SKY at deep mid wicket. NZ 103-3

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST
27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST
27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

Devon Conway scores his 9th T20I half-century. He continues from the stunning century in the final ODI against India 

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

OUT! Dangerous Devon Conway departs 52 (35) after a brilliant innings. A fullish delivery from Arshdeep Singh and Conway looks to hammer it down the ground but fails to connect it well and Deepak Hooda takes an easy catch at long-off. NZ 139-4   

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

OUT! Michael Bracewell gone run out. Michael Bracewell and Daryl Mitchell go for a quick single and Ishan Kishan makes a direct hit to run out M Bracewell. NZ 140-5

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

OUT! Mitchell Santner 7 (5) out. Shivam Mavi bags his first wicket of the match. A short ball wide of off-stump and Santner looks to power the pull leg-side but could only succeed in finding Rahul Tripathi at deep mid-wicket. NZ 149-6  

27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST

All-rounder Daryl Mitchell and opener Devon Conway smashed fine half-centuries and propelled New Zealand to 176/6 against India in the first T20I of the three-match series at the JSCA International Stadium, here on Friday. Conway made a 35-ball 52, laced with seven fours and a six and attacked well against the spinners. On the other hand, Mitchell opened up in the later half of the innings to finish on 59 not out off 30 balls, hitting three fours and fives sixes. He also took 27 runs off the final over by Arshdeep Singh to inject some momentum in the innings after losing wickets in quick succession in the middle overs. For India, Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav gave away a combined 56 runs while picking three wickets, while the fast bowlers gave away 119 runs despite picking as many wickets as their spin counterparts.

27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST

Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan are at the crease. Jacob Duffy will open the attack

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

OUT! Ishan Kishan bowled. Mitchell Bracewell's delivery left Ishan Kishan clueless. Pitched on middle and leg, grips off the surface and turns away sharply just enough to hit the top of off. Ind 10-1

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

OUT! Rahul Tripathi gone 0 (6). Santner kept it on a good length and got the ball shaping away in the fifth stump corridor, Tripathi looked to play with hard hands and was targetting mid-on/mid-wicket region. Got a faint outside edge and the keeper did the rest. Ind 11-2

27 January 2023 09:13 PM IST

OUT! Shubman Gill 7 (6) out. Santner strikes again. A slower one and Gill tries to pull to the leg-side. Fails to connect and ends up chipping it off the leading edge. A simple catch for Allen at mid-wicket. Ind 15-3

27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST
27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST

OUT! Suryakumar Yadav 47 (34). Sodhi strikes. This is a massive wicket for New Zealand. Suryakumar fails to read a googly chips it to long-on. Ind 83-4

27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST

OUT! Hardik Pandya 21 (20) gone. NZ players are already celebrating. A flatter delivery from Bracewell and Hardik goes for the pull and skies it straight up. Bracewell takes a good catch. Ind 89-5

27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST

OUT! Deepak Hooda stumped 10 (10). Santner expected the big shot and just held it up a bit, Hooda is drawn into the drive and the ball spins away, beats him on the outside edge and drags him out of the crease, Conway does the rest behind the stumps. Ind 

27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST

India 159-9 in 20 overs. That's it Men In Blue lose by 21 runs. The last over by Arshdeep Singh in which he gave 27 runs comes to haunt the Men in Blues. Surya and Hardik—with their 50-run partnership—looked set to take the match to wires but a batting collapse meant Hardik Pandya's men were never in hunt for a win.     

27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST
27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST

NZ's Michael Bracewell: There was a lot of turn in the first innings and it continued right through the whole match which was fortunate for us bowling second. I was trying to get it to skid on a little bit (Ishan Kishan's wicket) it's one of those ones, nice to pick up a wicket early in the innings and as a bowling unit, we were able to capitalize on that start. We (Santner and I) were trying to discuss what sort of ball is the most effective on the wicket. Great to have his experience around. There was a little bit of moisture out there towards the end, probably not as much as we were expecting. Massive to bounce back from that disappointing ODI series, looking forward to going on to the next one in a couple of days' time with a little bit of momentum behind us.

27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST

Hardik Pandya: No one even thought that the wicket would play like that and both teams were surprised. But they played better cricket on this and that's why the result end up like that. Actually the new ball was turning more than the old one and the way spun, way it bounced it caught us by surprise. But somehow we pulled it back and were in the game till Surya and myself were batting. On hindsight, I don't think this wicket was 177, we were with the ball and conceded 20-25 runs. It is a young group and we will only learn from this. The way he bowled, he batted and fielded, it was Washington against New Zealand today. We needed someone who can bat and bowl, gives us a lot of confidence and it will help us going forward.

27 January 2023 10:54 PM IST

That's it from the 1st T20I. One over changed the game for India. All to play for now in the second encounter at Lucknow on Jan 29 (Sunday) till then...good night     

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