India’s five-wicket win over New Zealand

New Delhi: India, led by new captain Rohit Sharma, defeated New Zealand by five wickets to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match T20I series on Wednesday. Rohit and Suryakumar Yadav played an important role in winning the team. Chasing the target of runs, the Indian team registered its 50th victory in the T20 format in this match. With this, the Indian team has created history, because no team could do this before. Chasing the target of runs till this match, Pakistan, India and Australia had won 49 matches in equal measure, but now the Indian team has gone ahead.

England, South Africa and New Zealand come after these three teams in terms of winning the most matches while chasing the target of runs in T20 format, whose names are 42, 35 and 32 wins respectively. In this match, India’s captain Rohit won the toss and decided to bowl first in view of the possibility of dew in the second session. The start of the Kiwi team was not bad and Daryl Mitchell, who performed brilliantly in the T20 World Cup, got clean bowled by Bhuvneshwar Kumar without opening the account. The team then scored 164 runs on the back of a strong fifty from Martin Guptill and Mark Chapman.
Chasing the target of 165 runs, the Indian team got the support of the innings of Rohit and Suryakumar, on the basis of which the team achieved this target by losing five wickets. Shreyas Iyer and debutant Venkatesh Iyer, who returned to the team after a long time in this match, could not show anything special. India’s wicket-keeper batsman Rishabh Pant sealed India’s victory by hitting a four off Daryl Mitchell.