Ishan Kishan’s century and a five-for from Arshdeep Singh powered India’s 46-run win over the Black Caps in a high-scoring game<\/p>\n
Ishan Kishan has smashed a 42-ball hundred as India showcased their batting firepower ahead of next month’s \u200dT20 World Cup, beating New Zealand by 46 runs in Thiruvananthapuram \u200bto seal a 4-1 series win.<\/p>\n
Kishan clobbered 10 sixes in an incendiary 103 \u2060off 43 balls to anchor India’s imposing 5-271 at the Greenfield International Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n
New Zealand opener Finn Allen did his best in response, hammering six sixes in a 38-ball 80 but the Black Caps were eventually bowled out for 225 with \u200ctwo balls \u200bleft in the innings after India seamer Arshdeep Singh took a \u200dcareer-best 5-51.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Kishan, who missed the previous game in Visakhapatnam with a niggle, returned at number three and tore into the attack from the outset.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ish Sodhi bore the brunt in the 12th over, when Kishan lashed four fours \u200band two sixes in a seven-ball \u200cover that cost 29 runs.<\/p>\n
After playing second fiddle to Kishan for much of their rapid 137-run \u200bstand off 58 balls, India captain Suryakumar Yadav (63) then exhibited his own \u200dpower-hitting prowess by smashing three sixes off a Jacob Duffy over.<\/p>\n
Kishan brought up his 100 with a six before Duffy deceived him with \u200ba \u200bslow bouncer and Hardik \u200bPandya smacked four sixes in his 42 \u200boff 17 balls down the order.<\/p>\n
New Zealand lost opener Tim Seifert cheaply, but Allen and Rachin Ravindra (30) kept them in the hunt with a century stand before their chase was derailed.<\/p>\n
After spinner Axar Patel (3-33) removed Allen and Glenn Phillips, seamer Arshdeep demolished the New Zealand middle order to claim his maiden five-wicket \u200dhaul in T20 Internationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ishan Kishan’s century and a five-for from Arshdeep Singh powered India’s 46-run win over the Black Caps in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-450287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450287","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=450287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}