Join now and get your first month for just $1 ><\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ve done well and I\u2019m getting these awards, but my focus is firmly on the World Cup,\u201d player of the match Kishan said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where the extra effort is needed. What\u2019s important is carrying this form forward and continuing to contribute there.\u201d<\/p>\n
India’s Ishan Kishan. Photo by R. Satish BABU \/ AFPSource: AFP<\/p>\n
Left-arm quick Arshdeep picked up his first five-wicket haul in T20 matches for India, taking 5-51. Left-arm spinner Axar Patel took three wickets.<\/p>\n
Arshdeep went for 40 runs and took one wicket in his first two overs but later gained his revenge.<\/p>\n
Allen and Rachin Ravindra put on 100 runs for the second wicket before the wheels soon came off for New Zealand as Allen departed.<\/p>\n
Arshdeep made further inroads with two wickets in an over including Ravindra, for 30, and skipper Mitchell Santner, for a duck.<\/p>\n
Ish Sodhi hit a valiant 33 off 15 balls before he fell as the last wicket with New Zealand bowled out in 19.4 overs.<\/p>\n
Earlier, India lost local boy Sanju Samson for six before Kishan took matters into his own hands in a 137-run third-wicket partnership with skipper Suryakumar Yadav, who hit 63.<\/p>\n
Kishan took on leg-spinner Sodhi as he blasted four fours and two sixes in a 29-run 12th over. Suryakumar then reached his third fifty of the series with two successive sixes.<\/p>\n
Suryakumar was named player of the series for his 242 runs in the five matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a bowling unit, we\u2019ve got to find ways against very good batters \u2013 guys who deal in boundaries and sixes,\u201d Santner said about the improvements for the World Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe it\u2019s about turning those big overs into 15 or 16, especially on flat pitches, knowing that even 230 can be chaseable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spinner Santner took down his opposite number when he had Suryakumar stumped, but Kishan raised his hundred off 42 balls with a six, jumping for joy as he soaked up the applause from the fans and dressing room.<\/p>\n
Kishan had been dropped by Glenn Phillips in the deep on 84, and eventually fell to Jacob Duffy \u2014 ending a knock featuring six fours and 10 sixes.<\/p>\n
Hardik Pandya kept up the charge though with a 17-ball 42 as India hammered 169 runs off the last 10 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ishan Kishan hit his maiden T20 international century and Arshdeep Singh took five wickets as India thrashed New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-450449","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450449","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=450449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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