IND vs NZ: India beat New Zealand by six wickets in 2nd T20 match, level series

Indianspinners revelled on a turning track before the batters made heavy weather of a small target to register a scrappy series levelling win over New Zealand in the second T20 International here on SundayThe trio of Yuzvendra Chahal Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav impressed on a helping surface to limit a selfdestructing New Zealand to 99 for eight their lowest total against India in the shortest formatIt should have been a straightforward run chase but the toporder comprising Ishan Kishan 19 off 32 Shubman Gill 11 off 9 and Rahul Tripathi 13 off 18 had a tough time again in spinfriendly conditionsIn the end Hardik Pandya 15 not out off 20 and Suryakumar Yadav 26 not out off 31 took the team over the line with a ball to spare and six wickets in handThe series decider will be played in Ahmedabad on WednesdayWith the likes of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli not playing T20s since the World Cup last year opportunities have been presented to the younger players who are yet to make them countKishan has gone off the boil since his double hundred in Bangladesh while Gill has not been able to carry on his scintillating ODI form into T20s The stylish righthander fell while trying to pull a spinner for the second game in a row but was surprised by the amount of turnTripathi who is getting to play at number three in Kohlis absence was unable to take the attack to the New Zealand spinnersThe Indians felt the pressure and that was evident with the run out of Washington Sundar who sacrificed his wicket to ensure Suryas stay in the middleSince the asking rate was never an issue India could afford to stutter in the chaseA four after 45 balls coming from Hardiks bat in the 19th over released a lot of pressure before the skipper completed the job alongside Surya who hit the winning fourAlso Read U19 Womens T20 WC Superb bowling fielding help India bowl out England for 68Earlier Hardik decided to employ spinners from both ends in the powerplay after opening the bowling himselfWrist spinners Kuldeep 117 and Chahal 14 playing in a T20 together after a while extracted a lot out of the Lucknow surface while finger spinner Washington 117 produced another tidy spellChahal was left licking his lips after the first ball of his opening spell It was a ripper that pitched on leg stump before beating the outside edge of Finn Allens batThe opener perished two balls later trying to reverse sweep with the ball thudding into his back leg before crashing on to the stumpsThe inform Devon Conway too fell to a reverse sweep as the ball kissed his gloves on way to wicketkeeper Ishan KishanNew Zealand were soon reduced to 35 for three in seventh over when the dangerous Glenn Phillips missed a straight ball from Deepak Hooda in his attempt to reverse sweep the part time offspinnerDaryl Mitchell got a beauty from Kuldeep that came back in sharply to shatter the stumpsNew Zealand bat deep but none of their batters were able to apply themselves on a testing pitchPacer Arshdeep Singh who has been guilty of bowling too many no balls lately and Shivam Mavi were only used in the death oversArshdeep did well to take wickets in his two tough overs and conceded only eight runs Hardik ended with figures of one for 25 in four oversThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever