India vs New Zealand 1st T20I at Jaipur, 17 Nov, 2021

Toss: India, who chose to bowl
New Zealand 164/6 (20)
India 166/5 (19.4)
India won by 5 wickets
Man of the Match: Suryakumar Yadav
  • Rishabh Pant 17 * (17)
  • Axar Patel 1 * (1)

Over 13.3 Trent Boult bowls a pitched up delivery to Rishabh Pant,1 run, gets forward and clipped away behind square on the leg-side for an easy single

Over 14.3: Single. Lockie Ferguson to Rishabh Pant,

Over 14.5: Single. Lockie Ferguson to Rishabh Pant,

Over 14.6: Single. Lockie Ferguson to Rishabh Pant,

Over 15.1 Tim Southee bowls a pitched up delivery to Rishabh Pant, Boundary! Came down the pitch and smashes it down to the deep extra cover fence for four.

Over 15.2 Tim Southee bowls a good length delivery to Rishabh Pant,1 run, gets back in the crease and punches it through cover for a single.

Over 15.6 Tim Southee bowls a good length delivery to Rishabh Pant,1 leg bye, gets forward and misses the defence and the ball goes off the pads towards cover.

Over 16.1 Trent Boult bowls a slower one to Rishabh Pant, no run, gets forward and mistime drive back to the bowler.

Over 16.2 Trent Boult bowls it short of length to Rishabh Pant, no run, backs away in the crease and tries to run it down to the third man but misses.

Over 16.3: Wide ball. Trent Boult to Rishabh Pant, 

Over 16.3 Trent Boult bowls a good length delivery to Rishabh Pant,1 run, gets forward and plays it along the ground to long-on for one.

Over 16.4 Trent Boult bowls a pitched up delivery to Suryakumar Yadav, out Bowled!! 

Over 17.1 Lockie Ferguson bowls a good length delivery to Rishabh Pant, no run, gets forward and punches it straight to the man at mid-off.

Over 17.2 Lockie Ferguson bowls it short of length to Rishabh Pant,1 run, rock back in the crease and pulled away to deep mid-wicket.

Over 17.5 Lockie Ferguson bowls a pitched up delivery to Rishabh Pant, no run, gets forward and punches it hard but straight to the man at mid-off.

Over 17.6 Lockie Ferguson bowls it short of length to Rishabh Pant, no run, backs away in the crease and tries to cut hard but misses.

Over 18.2 Tim Southee bowls a pitched up delivery to Rishabh Pant,1 run, moves across in the crease and flicks it down to the fine leg and picks up one more.

Over 18.4 Tim Southee bowls a good length delivery to Rishabh Pant,1 leg bye, tries to help this away towards fine leg but misses and the fuller slower delivery deflects off the pads to the right of the keeper

Over 18.6 Tim Southee bowls a good length delivery to Shreyas Iyer, out Caught by Boult!! Shreyas Iyer, tries to lift the fullish delivery straight and picks out Boult at long-off 

Over 19.2 Daryl Mitchell bowls a pitched up delivery to Venkatesh Iyer, out Caught by Ravindra!! Venkatesh Iyer looks to be cheeky and attempts a reverse slap against a full and wide delivery, there's no pace on it and he ended up dragging it straight to short third off the toe-end

Over 19.4 Daryl Mitchell bowls a pitched up delivery to Rishabh Pant, Boundary! Comes on to the front foot and lofts it over mid-off and gets the winning runs with a boundary.

India won by 5 wickets and lead the series with 1-0

Tim Southee (NZ): You always want to come out on the right side of the result. We played our best cricket and took it deep. Mark Chapman hasn't played a lot of cricket of late, and to play the way he played was very pleasing to the side. It was a game of fine margins. It was a good score, we wanted to start well with the ball but we did well to claw back in the middle and obviously Mitch Santner was outstanding with the ball and to take it deep and take it to the last over I guess that was a positive as well. It's always tough with different grounds and stuff like that but we set high expectations ourselves, a little bit off in the field and it's an area we pride ourselves on and that we have been very good at in the last few months. It's always tough, Daryl has got a lot of training and always want to bowl but probably didn't leave him enough runs in the end. Guptill played nicely, Santner showed his class as well.

Rohit Sharma (IND): Towards the end we saw it wasn't easy, was a great learning for the guys because those guys haven't batted in that situation before for India. It was great learning for them to understand what needs to be done, it's not about power hitting all the time and you try and put the ball to the left or right of the fielder and try and take singles or find boundaries. As a team we are happy that those guys got to bat in that situation and finished the game off. Technically was a good game, missing a few players and to come and see what the new players have in terms of ability and I think the way we pulled it back in the last 3-4 overs was magnificent. In the end it was a great effort from all our bowlers. They (Ashwin and Axar) bowl in tandem for the Delhi Capitals and they are always looking to take wickets which is a good sign and it's important to try and put the brakes and those guys do that.

Suryakumar Yadav is the Man of the Match