India vs New Zealand

CRR: 7.80. Batting, R(B), 4s, 6s, SR. Devon Conway*, 48(29), 7, 1, 165.52. Daryl Mitchell, 13(12), 2, 0, 108.33. Bowling, O, M, R, W.

Santner slowed it up and got the ball to spin away wide of off, Shubman Gill thought it was a long hop and tried to maul the pull leg-side. Got a faint outside edge and the keeper did the rest. Santner was very confident about the edge and went up for the review almost instantly. Lures SKY onto the front foot with a full delivery and gets enough turn off the deck to beat him all ends up on the outside edge A tame push and past the edge 3.6 Santner to Suryakumar Yadav, no run, my word!

Devon Conway and Daryl Mitchell conjured up fluent and fiery half-centuries before the spinners choked the hosts as New Zealand outplayed India by 21 runs ...

Sundar, however, got a lot of purchase from the wicket and soon saw the back of Allen and Mark Chapman (0) in the space of five deliveries to reduce New Zealand to 43 for 2. Conway used the slog sweep and his feet to pick up boundaries off Kuldeep and Hooda as New Zealand crossed the 100-mark in the 13th over. India had a disastrous start to their chase with both Ishan Kishan (4) and Rahul Tripathi (0) sent back to the pavillion by the third over. The Kiwi bowlers, led by Mitchell Santner (2/11) and Michael Bracewell (2/31), then spun a web around the home batters, restrict India to 155 for 9 in 20 overs. Santner then bowled a maiden as India reached 33 for three in the powerplay overs. Devon Conway and Daryl Mitchell conjured up fluent and fiery half-centuries before the spinners choked the hosts as New Zealand outplayed India by 21 runs in the opening T20I to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series here on Friday.

Chasing a competitive 177, India's top-three, including in-form Shubman Gill (7) were dismissed for just 15 runs inside 19 balls, making the task difficult ...

When the competition is very high, and the opposition is of the highest quality such things can happen," Washington said in support of his teammate. But he made the difference by actually getting a half-century for himself," he concluded. [Washington Sundar](https://www.outlookindia.com/topic/washington-sundar) termed their loss to New Zealand in the opening T20I here as a "one-off" defeat and backed the hosts to bounce back in the three-match series. It happens to anyone -- even New Zealand collapsed in Raipur (108 all out in 34.3 overs in the second ODI)," Washington said. All of them have done well to get to this stage." "He (Arshdeep) has taken so many wickets -- for India and in the IPL.

The New Zealand spinner and Daryl Mitchell stole the show as New Zealand won the first T20I in Ranchi by 21 runs to take a lead in the series.

But it wasn't enough as the Indian innings ended at 155 for nine in 20 overs and New Zealand took a 1-0 lead in the series. Mitchell would then hit Arshdeep for 27 runs in the final over of the innings as he got to his fifty and finished unbeaten on 59 from 30 balls as New Zealand got to 176 runs. Rahul Tripathi was the next to depart without troubling the scoring as India were 11 for two. Santner then got the big wicket of Shubman Gill as India were 15 for three in just 3.1 overs. India had won the toss and opted to field first, considering the dew factor. India's batters had no answer to the New Zealand bowling, with the spinners picking up five wickets.