And that’s all she wrote for this series! India warms up for the T20 World Cup in fine fashion, defeating a good New Zealand side fairly comfortably in the end.
Tonight was a night for a wicketkeeper-batter, but not the one we expected. Sanju Samson struggled again, but Ishan Kishan slammed his maiden T20I century to make a compelling case for his inclusion in India’s T20 World Cup XI. Ably supported by Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya, India posted its third-highest score in T20Is.
Finn Allen kept the game competitive for a fair while in the second innings, scoring a brutal 80 at the top of the order, but New Zealand always had its back against the wall. Axar Patel cracked the game open with the wicket of Allen, before Arshdeep Singh came back from an expensive opening spell to claim his first five-wicket haul in T20Is.
