India Beat New Zealand By 4 Wickets In Last-Over Thriller To Lead T20I Series 2-0
India beat New Zealand by four wickets with one ball to spare in the second T20I at Christchurch on 24 October, chasing 181 after slipping to 70 for 5. They finished on 181 for 6, and India now lead the five-match series 2-0.
Tilak Varma was unbeaten on 51 and was named Player of the Match. His unbroken 69-run stand with Nitish Kumar Reddy for the seventh wicket is reported as India’s highest seventh-wicket partnership in T20Is, and Dhir added a quick 31. Mitchell Santner took 4 for 21 for New Zealand.
New Zealand had made 180 for 5, led by Glenn Phillips’s 70, and Arshdeep Singh took two wickets for India. The third T20I is in Wellington on 27 October, followed by Auckland on 30 October and Hamilton on 1 November.
