Tim Seifert and Adam Milne have masterminded New Zealand’s second victory of the five-game series in the final T20I against India<\/p>\n
A relentless onslaught from Tim Seifert helped New Zealand to score a consolation seven-wicket win over India in the fifth and final T20I in Hamilton, as the visitors took the series 3-2.<\/p>\n
Chasing 192 for victory on Sunday night, New \u200cZealand started slowly and lost opener Finn Allen in the second over, before Seifert grabbed the \u200cmatch by the scruff of the neck.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old belted five sixes and 11 fours en route to a knock of 93, but was unable to complete a first T20I century after a thick inside edge on a Nitish Kumar Reddy delivery crashed into his leg stump.<\/p>\n
New Zealand \u200cwere taken over \u200cthe finish \u2060line by Glenn Phillips, whose 65 not out made \u200bhim the highest-scoring batter ever in a bilateral T20I series with 341 runs, bettering England player Phil Salt’s previous record of 331.<\/p>\n
“(Having that) calm and the composure, it’s a nice feeling,” Phillips said.<\/p>\n
“When you go out there with a clear mind and just try to play each ball \u2060on its merits and go out there and \u200ctry \u200band be a bit more of the hunter and a little less of the prey.<\/p>\n
“Spin \u200bwas going to \u200cbe the type of bowling that needed to be taken down. Obviously we saw the \u200bIndian boys do it to us, and they did it very effectively.”<\/p>\n
The win also put a degree of respect on the series scoreline, after India had won \u200bthe \u200bfirst three matches to seal the \u200bseries.<\/p>\n
After being put in to bat earlier on \u200cSunday, India were struggling at 2-19 before a 93-run partnership between Shreyas Iyer (50) and Ishan Kishan (61) laid the foundation for a decent total.<\/p>\n
Fast bowler Adam Milne was the best of New Zealand’s bowlers with four wickets, while Nathan Smith and Blair Tickner had two apiece.<\/p>\n
The sides \u200bwill now turn their focus to one-day international cricket, with Eden Park in Auckland to host the \u2060first ODI of the five-match series on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tim Seifert and Adam Milne have masterminded New Zealand’s second victory of the five-game series in the final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-949247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949247","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=949247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}