India vs New Zealand 3rd T20 Live Match Score, IND vs NZ Cricket Match Live Scorecard: India and New Zealand play the final T20I at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
India vs New Zealand 3rd T20I Live Score: India captain Rohit Sharma won a hat-trick of tosses and elected to bat against New Zealand in the series ending third T20 International on Sunday. India rested KL Rahul and Ravichandran Ashwin as they would feature in the upcoming Test series, giving Ishan Kishan and Yuzvendra Chahal a go in the dead rubber. Mitchell Santner was named New Zealand captain as Tim Southee was rested as a part of workload management programme and Lockie Ferguson came in his place.
India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal
New Zealand (Playing XI): Martin Guptill, Daryl Mitchell, Mark Chapman, Glenn Phillips, Tim Seifert(w), James Neesham, Mitchell Santner(c), Adam Milne, Lockie Ferguson, Ish Sodhi, Trent Boult
India vs New Zealand, 3rd T20I Live Score and Updates: Catch all the live action from Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Santner is single-handedly turning the contest around! He sends Pant (4) back to the pavilion, ending his shaky start in the middle. The batter miscues his shot and is taken by Neesham at long-on. Kiwis are back in it! IND: 83/3 (9 overs)
There’s the breakthrough! Skipper Santner does the trick for New Zealand as he removes Ishan on 29. The batter tries to hit a shorter delivery but his shot sends the ball into the hands of Seifert. On comes Yadav but his stay in the middle is immediately cut short! Yadav (0) tries to up the ante but his shot is caught by Guptill near cover. IND: 71/2 (7 overs)
After Ishan’s two boundaries against Milne, India build momentum. Rohit (39*) takes on Ferguson and punishes a full-toss for a four. Minutes later, Ishan (29*) hits his sixth boundary. A six and a four to end the over. IND: 69/0 (6 overs)
Be it Boult or Ferguson, Rohit (23*) is not taking any prisoners tonight! After smacking the latter for the first six of the innings, the skipper clears front leg against his Mumbai Indians teammate. 10 runs off the over. IND: 39/0 (4 overs)
Ishan joins the party as he takes on MIlne in his opening over. First ball, the batter opens his account off the outside edge. A two later, Ishan hits his second boundary of the innings, guiding one to the third man fence. IND: 18/0 (2 overs)
Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan walk out to open the innings for India infront of a packed Eden Gardens! Mitchell Santner starts the proceedings with the new ball. After a first ball LBW appeal, Rohit hits two back-to-back boundaries. He gets an outside edge which guides the ball past slip and then doubles the pain with a proper drive. IND: 8/0 (1 over)
“After the T20 World Cup, everyone was thinking that in what areas we can improve. As a group we have been talking about that a lot. We had to improve in the middle overs. We have ticked few boxes. It’s going really well for us. As a kid I always dreamt of winning matches for India in any situation. I am ready to do whatever the team needs me to do. I am happy to finish the match. I can’t be complaining (about the workload) but the team management has given me offs from the next two Test matches. Hopefully I can recover well and do well in South Africa.”
India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Ishan Kishan(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal
New Zealand (Playing XI): Martin Guptill, Daryl Mitchell, Mark Chapman, Glenn Phillips, Tim Seifert(w), James Neesham, Mitchell Santner(c), Adam Milne, Lockie Ferguson, Ish Sodhi, Trent Boult
India have won the toss and elected to bat. “The pitch looks a little sticky and we want to challenge ourselves as a batting unit. We gotta try various things and this is one of them. We want to put runs on the board and give the new set of bowlers a target to defend. KL and Ashwin are rested. Ishan and Chahal come in. We are very clear as to what we want to do that’s why Ishan has to wait for his opportunity, Chahal has been a champion bowler for us,” said Rohit Sharma.
- Rohit and Rahul are less than 200 runs away from becoming the most successful opening pair in T20Is and among the 11 pairs with 1000+ partnership runs. None of them score at a quicker rate than these two.
- Ruturaj & Avesh Khan are the leading run-getter and wicket-taker respectively in T20s for India in 2021.
India and New Zealand have locked horns in 19 T20Is so far. India have won 10 matches while New Zealand have won nine matches.In the last five encounters, India have defeated New Zealand four times and have faced defeat once.
India (Probable XI): KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant(w), Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Avesh Khan, Deepak Chahar, Harshal Patel.
New Zealand (Probable XI): Martin Guptill, Daryl Mitchell, Mark Chapman, Glenn Phillips, Tim Seifert(w), James Neesham, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee(c), Adam Milne, Trent Boult.
Hello and welcome to the live commentary of the third and final T20I between India and New Zealand. After winning the first two matches, the Rohit Sharma-led side will be hoping to clean sweep the white-ball series. Stay tuned for more!
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