India vs New Zealand 3rd T20 Highlights – Nov 7, 2017

Ind v NZ highlights today – Third twenty/20 from Greenfield International Stadium, Ind v NZ highlights today – Third twenty/20 from Greenfield International Stadium, Thiruvananthapuram (India) Tuesday 7th November 2017. The final match of the New Zealand cricket team tour of India will be played today, it will be also series decider match. C Munro is the most runs scorer of the t20 series so far, he scored 116 runs in two innings with highest 109 not out. He is the only batsmen in the world who smashed two t20I centuries in a year. The second most runs scorer batsman is V Kohli who scored 91 and RG Sharma 85. From bowling performance, TA Boult took five wickets, IS Sodhi took three wickets and YS Chahal also took three wickets so far. C Munro scored 109 runs off 58 balls in his last match, he smashed seven 4s and also seven 6s in his great innings.

Toss: New Zealand won and elected to field first.

India team/playing XI
RG Sharma, S Dhawan, V Kohli (c), SS Iyer, MK Pandey, HH Pandya, MS Dhoni †, B Kumar, JJ Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, YS Chahal.

New Zealand team/playing XI
MJ Guptill, C Munro, KS Williamson (c), GD Phillips †, C de Grandhomme, HM Nicholls, TC Bruce, MJ Santner, TA Boult, TG Southee, IS Sodhi.

Match Timings: 19:00 local (13:30 GMT)

A brand-new venue and a brand-new surface. The organisers claim scores of 180-plus were made in both innings of a warm-up game a fortnight ago. What teams will be mindful of, though, is the sapping heat and humidity, and the possibility of rain and a truncated game. The Kerala Cricket Association has invested in a modern drainage system and has three Super Soppers should it get to that. Tom Latham was left out of the Rajkot game despite having been one of New Zealand’s finds of the tour, despite having been given a new role in the middle order.

While there may not be a reason to make a change to a winning XI, barring injury, they could consider bringing Latham back. Mohammed Siraj’s international initiation didn’t quite go to plan in Rajkot, where he conceded 53 in his four overs. With Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jasprit Bumrah conceding only 52 off their eight overs and with Hardik Pandya as a third seam option, India could look at replacing Siraj with Kuldeep Yadav, who hasn’t featured since the first ODI in Mumbai.

New Zealand tour of India 3rd T20I (N) Highlights

Umpires – Anil Chaudhary, Nitin Menon
TV Umpires – Nandan
Match Referee – Chris Broad
Reserve Umpire – Chettithody Shamshuddin
Match number – T20I no. 632

Just over a week ago, Yuzvendra Chahal and Jasprit Bumrah were India’s bowling heroes in a gripping, high-scoring ODI series decider in Kanpur. On Tuesday they combined to deny New Zealand once again, this time in an eight-overs-a-side dogfight on a damp, grippy surface in a rain-shortened maiden international game at the Greenfield Stadium. Sent in to bat, India struggled to force the pace against square turn from Mitchell Santner and canny changes of pace from Tim Southee and Trent Boult. Virat Kohli got off to a bright start, clattering Ish Sodhi for four and six off his first two balls, but holed out on 13, and the rest of the batsmen couldn’t quite find their timing on a difficult surface.

If the conditions and the bowling weren’t hard enough to contend with, they also ran into Santner who had a storming day in the field. He took two good catches to send back the openers off successive balls, and later pulled off a spectacular assist to remove top-scorer Manish Pandey, sprinting from long-on, throwing himself to his right, plucking the ball out of mid-air and flicking it to Colin de Grandhomme coming the other way from deep midwicket. All this left New Zealand 68 to win their first proper series, in any format, in India, and Chahal and Bumrah led the defence with combined figures of 4-0-17-2. New Zealand scored 44 off their other four overs, but it wasn’t quite enough.

Colin Munro began the chase ominously, stepping out to the first ball he faced and launching Bhuvneshwar Kumar over the midwicket boundary. Bhuvneshwar pulled things back through the rest of the over with a succession of knuckleballs, the last of them sneaking past Martin Guptill’s slog and rattling his off stump, and New Zealand were 8 for 1. Munro’s power made him a key wicket for India, and Bumrah prised him out with three excellent balls – all of them hitting the deck just short of a good length and forcing the left-hander to hit against the right-arm-over angle. Two dots forced Munro to charge out, Bumrah saw him coming and shortened his length, and his cross-bat heave skewed over mid-on, from where Rohit Sharma sprinted to complete a tumbling stunner. Only three came off that over.

Chahal, relishing the grip and turn on offer, kept the ball wide of off stump to both right- and the left-hander, and didn’t concede a single boundary in his two overs. Every second ball he bowled was a dot, and this was especially commendable given the pressure he bowled in. Colin de Grandhomme had just launched Kuldeep Yadav for a flat six over long-on – perhaps the cleanest hit of the night – when Chahal came on to bowl the sixth over with New Zealand needing 32 off the last three. He beat the bat with his first two balls to de Grandhomme, both on a length too short to hit down the ground but not short enough to hit square, both pitching outside off and making him reach, one a slider and one a ripping leg-break.

India used Bumrah in the penultimate over, and even though it wasn’t his best over – it included a wide, a succession of byes, and a full-toss flicked for four by Tom Bruce – it still only cost 10 runs, and left New Zealand 19 to get off the last six balls. Kohli went for Hardik Pandya rather than Kuldeep, and the allrounder closed it out, though not without a couple of alarms. De Grandhomme stung Pandya’s left hand with a powerful straight hit, and next ball clubbed a slower one over the square leg boundary to bring the equation down to 14 off three. A wide next ball made it 13 off three, but Pandya pulled himself together and found the lengths to deny de Grandhomme and Santner any bigger hits.

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