Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nIt was the ninth-straight T20 series win for reigning T20 World Cup champions India.<\/p>\n
The series is a warm-up ahead of the T20 World Cup starting on February 7 in India and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the brand of cricket which we want to play, irrespective of our batting first or chasing,\u201d said Suryakumar. <\/p>\n
\u201cFor example, if we are 24 for 3 or 44 for 4 tomorrow, we know how to bat.\u201d <\/p>\n
New Zealand quick Matt Henry bowled Sanju Samson with the first ball of India\u2019s chase but the hosts soon took charge with Ishan Kishan and fellow left-hander Abhishek hitting a flurry of fours and sixes.<\/p>\n
India’s captain Suryakumar Yadav celebrates his fifty (AP Photo\/Anupam Nath)Source: AP<\/p>\n
The pair put on 53 runs off 19 balls before Kishan fell for 28 off Ish Sodhi, but Abhishek raced to India\u2019s second fastest in the format.<\/p>\n
Abhishek missed out on his mentor Yuvraj Singh\u2019s fastest T20 fifty record for India by two balls. Yuvraj scored a fifty in 12 balls in 2007.<\/p>\n
Abhishek kept up the attack with Suryakumar, who hit his second successive fifty in his 26-ball knock. The duo put on an unbeaten stand of 102 to underline India\u2019s status as the world\u2019s number one-ranked T20 team.<\/p>\n
India\u2019s bowlers set up victory with the pacers taking three wickets inside first six overs including Harshit Rana dismissing Devon Conway for the fifth time in successive white-ball matches.<\/p>\n
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Rachin Ravindra fell for four to Hardik Pandya. Bumrah, who was named player of the match, then bowled wicketkeeper-batter Tim Seifert for 12 as New Zealand slumped to 34-3.<\/p>\n
Glenn Phillips, who made 48 off 40 balls, and attempted to pull things back in a partnership of 54 for the fourth wicket with Mark Chapman before Bishnoi broke through.<\/p>\n
Bishnoi, who made the Indian XI after nearly a year, had Chapman caught behind for 32 and later denied Phillips a half-century.<\/p>\n
Wickets kept tumbling and despite skipper Mitchell Santner\u2019s 27 off 17 balls New Zealand fell well short of a testing total.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019ll give credit to India with the ball as well,\u201d said Santner. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey made it really tough for us. Obviously wickets in the powerplay is key. And then for us to scrap to 150, we knew it would be a challenge from there.\u201d <\/p>\n
The fourth match is on Wednesday in Visakhapatnam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspired bowling and a 14-ball fifty by opener Abhishek Sharma led India to a crushing eight-wicket series-clinching win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[88402,57691,1724,64,63,689,740,228086,192330,1209,228087,116770,45895,137509,1736,677,57607,60180,192146,43196,228085,38704,12540,85,1210,228088,58866,158194,116756,128533,7872],"class_list":["post-437534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-abhishek-sharma","tag-andhra-pradesh","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-cricket","tag-crushing-eight-wicket-series-clinching","tag-glenn-phillips","tag-india","tag-inspired-bowling","tag-mark-chapman","tag-matt-henry","tag-mitchell-santner","tag-new-zealand","tag-oceania","tag-pace-bowler","tag-perth-scorchers","tag-ravi-bishnoi","tag-sanju-samson","tag-series-clincher","tag-series-win","tag-southern-asia","tag-sports","tag-sri-lanka","tag-successive-white-ball-matches","tag-suryakumar-yadav","tag-sydney-sixers","tag-tim-seifert","tag-visakhapatnam","tag-yuvraj-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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