2nd T20I (N), India tour of New Zealand 2019, Watch IND v NZ HD video cricket highlights today – Second twenty/20 international from Eden Park, Auckland (New Zealand) Saturday, 8th February 2019. India won the ODI series by 3-2 and lost its first t20i match by 80 runs, which is not a small margin in the shortest format of the cricket. The home team New Zealand batted first and scored 219/6. The opener of the team TL Seifert † scored 84 runs off 43 deliveries, he smashed seven boundaries and six 6s in his beautiful innings.
Form guide
New Zealand: (completed matches, most recent first) WWLLL
India: LWLWW
C Munro contributed 34 runs as same as KS Williamson (c) who also scored 34 runs. LRPL Taylor scored 23 and SC Kuggeleijn 20. HH Pandya took two wickets and the rest of the Indian bowlers took one wicket each of them. MS Dhoni † was the top runs scorer with 39 runs, S Dhawan 29, V Shankar 27 and KH Pandya 20. India all out with 139 runs on the board. Now today’s match will be played at Eden Park, Auckland cricket ground. The highest total of the venue is 245/5 scored by Australia against the home team in February 2018. In that match, New Zealand batted first and scored 243/6. India will play their first-ever T20I match at this ground today.
New Zealand won the toss and will bat first.
New Zealand team
TL Seifert †, C Munro, KS Williamson (c), DJ Mitchell, LRPL Taylor, C de Grandhomme, MJ Santner, SC Kuggeleijn, TG Southee, IS Sodhi, LH Ferguson.
India team
RG Sharma (c), S Dhawan, V Shankar, RR Pant, MS Dhoni †, KD Karthik, HH Pandya, KH Pandya, B Kumar, YS Chahal, KK Ahmed.
Match Timings: 19.00 start, First Session 19.00-20.30, Interval 20.30-20.50, Second Session 20.50-22.20
Umpires – Wayne Knights, Chris Brown
TV Umpires – Shaun Haig
Match Referee – David Boon
Reserve Umpire – Tony Gillies
Match number – T20I no. 737
