India made no changes to their playing eleven.
New Zealand
made just one change to the eleven that last played the Indians – Blair Tickner
made way for Scott Kuggeleijn.
On winning
the toss, Kane Williamson, New Zealand’s skipper, inserted the visitors.
The
Powerplay of India’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between
the first and the sixth over. Their openers put on 69.
India put
on 50 off 5.3 overs (33 balls). New Zealand hadn’t conceded any extras at that
point. While the contribution of Rohit, the player of the (Shar)match, to the
partnership was 36, Lokesh Rahul’s contribution to it was 19.
Rahul,
whose 19-ball (Col)innings included a couple of boundaries and a six,
eventually scored 27. Nine overs into the match, he was caught by Munro. Colin
de Grandhomme broke the 89-run partnership.
Sharma’s
half-century – which included five boundaries and three sixes – came off 23
balls. He eventually scored 65 off 40 balls, which included half-a-dozen
boundaries, in addition to the aforementioned number of sixes. Ten balls later,
he was caught by Tim Southee. Hamish Bennett broke the five-run stand.
Shivam Dube
had no reason to be in seventh heaven – he scored just three. A couple of balls
later, he was caught by Ish Sodhi. Bennett broke the run-a-ball stand.
India
scored 100 off 12.1 overs (73 balls). New Zealand had conceded a couple of
extras at that point.
Shreyas
Iyer, whose 16-ball innings included a six, scored 17. Half-a-dozen balls
later, he was caught by Tim Seifert. Mitchell Santner broke the 46-run stand.
India
scored 150 off 17.5 overs (107 balls). New Zealand had conceded three extras at
that point.
Virat
Kohli, India’s skipper, scored 38. His 27-ball innings included a couple of
boundaries and a six. Eleven balls later, he was caught by Southee. Bennett
broke the 18-run stand.
Manish
Pandey, whose six-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 14. He was
unbeaten.
Ravindra
Jadeja, whose five-ball innings included a six, was unbea‘ten’.
New Zealand
eventually conceded five extras. India scored 179 for the loss of five wickets
off 20 overs.
Kuggeleijn,
who bowled a couple of overs, conceded 10. He was wicketless, as were Southee
and Sodhi, who bowled four wicketless overs apiece. While the former conceded
39, the latter conceded 23.
De
Grandhomme, who bowled a couple of overs, conceded 13. He picked up a wicket,
as was Santner, who bowled four overs, conceding 37. Bennett, who bowled four
overs, conceded 54. He picked up three scalps.
The
Powerplay of New Zealand’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was
between the first and the sixth over. They scored 51, and lost a wicket.
Guptill,
whose 21-ball (Mart)innings included a couple of boundaries and three sixes,
scored 31. Thirty-four balls into the chase, he was caught by the substitute,
Sanju Samson. Shardul Thakur broke the 47-run stand.
New Zealand
scored 50 off 5.5 overs (35 balls). India had conceded half-a-dozen extras at
that point.
Munro,
whose 16-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 14. Four balls
after Guptill’s dismissal, he was stumped by Rahul. Jadeja broke the five-run
stand.
Santner,
whose 11-ball innings included a boundary, scored nine. Twenty-six balls later,
Yuzvendra Chahal broke the 36-run stand.
New Zealand
scored 100 off 12.4 overs (76 balls). The number of extras they had conceded at
that point gave India no reason to be in seventh heaven.
Williamson’s
half-century – which included four boundaries and three sixes – came off 28
balls.
The
fourth-wicket pair put on 50 off 30 balls. While Williamson’s contribution to
the partnership was 44, de Grandhomme’s contribution to it was five. Extras’
contribution to the partnership was a run.
De
Grandhomme, who faced a dozen balls, didn’t add to the aforementioned score.
Thirty-two balls after Santner’s dismissal, he was caught by Dube. Thakur broke
the 50-run stand.
New Zealand
scored 150 off 17 overs (102 balls). The number of extras they had conceded at
that point gave India no reason to be in seventh heaven.
Williamson,
whose 48-ball innings included eight boundaries and half-a-dozen sixes,
eventually scored 95. Twenty-one balls after de Grandhomme’s dismissal, he was
caught by Rahul. Mohammed Shami broke the 41-run stand.
Ross
Taylor, whose 10-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 17. Three
balls later, Shami broke the one-run stand.
Seifert,
who faced a couple of balls, didn’t get off the mark. He was unbeaten.
India
eventually conceded eight extras. New Zealand scored 179 for the loss of six
wickets off 20 overs. The match ended in a tie. Dube, who bowled an over,
conceded 14. He was unbeaten, as was Jasprit Bumrah, who bowled four overs,
conceding 45.
Chahal and
Jadeja bowled four overs each, picking up a wicket apiece. While the former
conceded 36, the latter conceded 23. Thakur, who bowled three overs, conceded 21.
He picked up a couple of scalps, as did Shami, who bowled four overs, conceding
32.
The match
was decided by a Super Over.
While
Bumrah bowled it for India, Williamson and Guptill faced it for New Zealand,
and scored a run apiece off the first two balls.
Williamson
scored a six off the third and a boundary off the fourth.
Bumrah
conceded a bye off the penultimate ball, and Guptill scored a boundary off the
last ball.
New Zealand
scored 17 without the loss of a wicket off their Super Over.
India were
set a target of 18.
Sharma and
Rahul walked out to face Southee.
Sharma scored
a couple off the first ball, and a single off the second.
Rahul
scored a boundary off the third ball, and a single off the fourth.
Sharma
scored sixes off the last two balls.
India
scored 20 without the loss of a wicket off their Super Over, winning the
eliminator.
As a result
of that, the visitors led the five-match series 3-0. In fact, they won the
series with a couple of matches to spare.
