Shivam Dube struck 65 runs off 23 balls but his effort went in vain as New Zealand beat India by 50 runs in the fourth T20 this morning.<\/p>\n
Dube raced to a 15-ball 50, hitting seven sixes and three fours in all, but he didn\u2019t find much support from the Indian line up. Rinku Singh scored 39 off 30 balls.<\/p>\n
This was after New Zealand scored 215-7 in 20 overs, thanks to a 100-run opening stand between Devon Conway and Tim Seifert.<\/p>\n
Seifert scored 62 off 36 balls, with three sixes and seven fours, while Conway made 44 off 23 balls.<\/p>\n
Daryl Mitchell scored 39 not out off 18 balls with three sixes.<\/p>\n
In reply, India was bowled out for 165 runs in 18.4 overs. Mitchell Santner picked 3-26 in four overs, while Ish Sodhi (2-46) and Jacob Duffy (2-33) returned a brace each.<\/p>\n
India already had an unassailable 3-0 series lead. Thiruvananthapuram will host the final T20 on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Put into bat, New Zealand got off to the best start of this series. The opening duo scored 71 runs in the powerplay as Seifert reached 50 off 25 balls.<\/p>\n
Their 100-stand came off 49 deliveries, but Kuldeep Yadav provided the breakthrough immediately after. Rachin Ravindra was caught and bowled off Jasprit Bumrah for 2.<\/p>\n
Yadav (2-39) struck again to remove Glenn Phillips for 24, while Seifert holed out off Arshdeep Singh in between. New Zealand was down to 137-4 in the 14th over.<\/p>\n
It further lost two more middle-order wickets and was 163-6 at one stage. But Mitchell pulled things back in the lower order and took 19 runs off Bumrah\u2019s penultimate over.<\/p>\n
He added 33 off 12 balls with Matt Henry as New Zealand crossed 200.<\/p>\n
In reply, India lost Abhishek Sharma for a golden duck \u2014 bowled off Henry. Suryakumar Yadav batted at No. 3 in the absence of injured Ishan Kishan, but was out for 8.<\/p>\n
Sanju Samson (24) and Rinku Singh added 46 off 28 balls for the third wicket. Santner then struck twice in successive overs to remove both Samson and Hardik Pandya (2).<\/p>\n
Dube then came to the crease, even as Zakary Foulkes trapped Singh lbw in the 11th over to leave India 82-5.<\/p>\n
Dube put on 63 off 27 balls with Harshit Rana (9), but was run out in the 15th over to end India\u2019s hopes for an unlikely win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shivam Dube struck 65 runs off 23 balls but his effort went in vain as New Zealand beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6429,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-256945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-black-caps","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}