Both the Tim’s gave New Zealand their First Win
New Zealand wins the first match from three match T-20 series and is looking strong after getting their biggest win against India by 80 runs.
India won the toss and elected to bowl first which proved a bad decision by skipper Rohit Sharma as the Kiwis posted a huge total of 219 and getting past 200 easily thanks to Whanganui born opener Tim Siebert who had unsuccessful outings earlier but not this time as Siebert scored his first half century in his ninth T-20 outing and scoring 84 runs as an opener after regular keeper Tom Latham was given rest for a match and he was well supported by Colin Munro (fellow opener) and skipper Kane Williamson and both scored 34 runs respectively.
India had to face a huge target and failed to do so as India lost wickets in quick succession and highest score came from MS Dhoni (39) and skipper Sharma got out on just one. Today, as Virat Kohli was rested so, Vijay Shankar took the job of batting on one down and he fired two fours and sixes respectively but was kept on his toes by Mitchell Santner unfortunately Shankar’s firry inning lasted only 18 balls but still he managed his best ever T-20 score and along with Shankar other names came to light were Krunal Pandya who scored 20 runs and got his first T-20 six.
Reason behind India low total was Tim Southee who got three wickets of good players namely Sharma, Dhoni, and Krunal which proved fatal for India and other stars of Kiwi bowling today were Lockie Ferguson, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi all got two wickets each and Sodhi captured his tenth wicket against India and 43rd overall.
This is the first time New Zealand is leading any series after losing the first match in Odi series and currently Kiwis lead 1-0 and final score: New Zealand 219/6, India 139/10 and Man of the Match was Tim Siebert.
Next match is on 8th February 2019 at 11:30 AM IST on Eden Park, Auckland.
February 06, 2019