India wins over New Zealand by 6 wickets to equalize the series.
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The 2nd T20I match of the New Zealand tour of India, 2023 played yesterday at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow. In which India wins over New Zealand by 6 wickets to equalize the series.
New Zealand batted first after winning the toss and started the inning not very well and a very slow start, Mitchell Santner played an unbeaten inning of 19 runs in 23 balls, Michael Bracewell scored 14 runs in 22 balls, Mark Chapman 14 runs in 21 balls, Finn Allen 11 runs in 10 balls, Devon Conway 11 runs in 14 balls, Daryl Mitchell dismissed just for 8 runs, Glenn Phillips 5 runs, Ish Sodhi 1 run, Jacob Duffy remains unbeaten for 6 runs, Lockie Ferguson dismissed without scoring. In this way, New Zealand scored just 99 runs in the stipulated 20 overs and set a target of 100 runs in front of India.
Indian bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Hardik Pandya used a total of 7 bowlers, Arshdeep Singh took 2 wickets just for 7 runs in 2 overs, Yuzvendra Chahal 1 wicket just for 4 runs in 2 overs, Washington Sundar 1 wicket for 17 runs in 3 overs, Kuldeep Yadav 1 wicket for 17 runs in his spell, Deepak Hooda 1 wicket for 17 runs in his spell, and Hardik Pandya 1 wicket for 25 runs in his spell.
India chasing 100 runs in the second inning archived the target very easily by losing just 4 wickets in the fifth ball of the final over. India also started the inning not very well, and very slow start as New Zealand, Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan came start the inning, the first wicket has gone just for 17 runs in 3.5 over, Shubman Gill dismissed just for 11 runs in 9 balls, next batsman Rahul Tripathi came to bat and played well with Ishan Kishan, the second wicket has gone for 46 runs in 8.5 over, Ishan Kishan dismissed after scoring 19 runs in 32 balls, next batsman Suryakumar Yadav came to bat, after a while the third wicket has also gone for 50 runs in 10.4 over, Rahul Tripathi dismissed for 13 runs in 18 balls, followed by Washington Sundar came to bat and played well for a while with Suryakumar Yadav, the fourth wicket has gone for 70 runs in 14.3 over, Washington Sundar dismissed or 10 runs in 9 balls, next batsman Hardik Pandya came to bat handled the inning and took the match to the victory with Suryakumar Yadav, Suryakumar Yadav played a very brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 26 runs in 31 balls, and Hardik Pandya played also played an unbeaten inning of 15 runs in 20 balls. In this way, India chased the target very easily by losing 4 wickets in 19.5 overs and won the match by 6 wickets to equalize the series by 1-1.
New Zealand bowlers Michael Bracewell took 1 wicket for 13 runs, and Ish Sodhi 1 wicket for 24 runs.
Indian batsman Suryakumar Yadav was selected as the best player of the match, he played a very brilliant unbeaten victory inning of 26 runs in 31 balls.
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