Brendon McCullum once again proved that he is a dangerous customer to negotiat with. He gave the home team 1-0 lead in the two match T20 series with his blistering unbeaten 56. His knock came off 49 balls with timely sixes and fours. He hit 3 sixes and 2 fours.
Guptill survived a plumb leg before of the first ball he faced, but came back strongly and scored useful 41 off 28 balls.
None of the Indian bowlers could take wickets at crucial times of the game. Zaheer and Harbhajan bowled economically, but not able to break partnerships often.
Earlier, poor batting by Indian batsmen pushed them to 82 for 6. Yousuf Pathan hit 3 continuous success of Nathan McCullum but got out when he tried hit the fourth. SK Raina who came in as number 3 batsman stayed till the end of the innings and was the highest scorer for India with 61 off 43 balls with 5 sixes and two fours.
Sehwag started beautifully but could not continue his threatening hits. He hit four sixes and scored 26 off just 10 balls. He was bowled when trying to slog O'Brien over mid-wicket.
Scoreboard:
Tour: India to New Zealand
Series: T20
Match #: 1
Date: Wednesday February 25, 2009
Venue: Christchurch
Captains: Daniel Vettori (NZ) and MS Dhoni (Ind)
Umpires: GAV Baxter and EA Watkin; AL Hill-third umpire
Toss: NZ won the toss and decided to field
Match: NZ won by 7 wickets with 7 balls remaining
Man of the Match: BB McCullum off NZ
India 162 for 8 in 20 overs (G Gambhir bowled O'Brien 6, V Sehwag bowled O'Brien 26, SK Raina 61 not out, RG Sharma caught BB McCullum bowled Butler 7, Yuvaraj Singh LBW Vettori 1, MS Dhoni bowled Butler 2, Yousuf Pathan caught Oram bowled Nathan McCullum 20, Irfan Pathan caught Nathan McCullum bowled Ryder 12, Harbhajan Singh bowled Southee 21, Extras--6 (lb 3, w 3), TG Southee 4-0-42-1, IE O'Brien 4-0-36-2, IG Butler 4-0-29-2, DL Vettori 4-0-18-1, NL McCullum 2-0-27-1, JD Ryder 2-0-7-1)
Fall of Wickets: 1-25 (Gambhir, 1.6 ov), 2-32 (Sehwag, 3.1 ov), 3-54 (RG Sharma, 5.2 ov), 4-56 (Yuvraj Singh, 6.2 ov), 5-61 (Dhoni, 7.5 ov), 6-82 (YK Pathan, 9.4 ov), 7-101 (IK Pathan, 13.3 ov), 8-162 (Harbhajan Singh, 19.6 ov)
New Zealand 166 for 3 in 18.5 overs (JD Ryder LBW Ishanth Sharma 1, BB McCullum 56 not out, MJ Guptill LBW Harbhajan 41, LRPL Taylor bowled Zaheer Khan 31, JDP Oram 29 not out, Extras--8 (w 5, nb 3), Zaheer Khan 4-0-20-1, Ishanth Sharma 4-0-35-1, Irfan Pathan 3-0-38-0, Harbhajan Singh 4-0-19-1, Yousuf Pathan 2.5-0-37-0, Yuvaraj Singh 1-0-17-0)
Fall of Wickets: 1-2 (Ryder, 1.1 ov), 2-56 (Guptill, 6.4 ov), 3-106 (Taylor, 13.2 ov)
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