Last over required 12 runs. New Zealand has 5 wickets in hand with the McCullum brothers on the crease. Pathan brothers won the T20 for India against Sri Lanka last month and this time McCullum brothers did it for New Zealand.
Dhoni believed in Pathan because he took 2 wickets in his previous over which was 18th of the innings and gave away just 5 runs. With 23 required of 12 balls, in T20, you can always bet it in favor batting team unless the wickets in hand is less than 3. In this case, the Kiwis had 6 wickets in hand.
Yuvi picked 7 runs in the first three balls including a four before picking NT Broom caught by Irfan Pathan. Brendon scored boundary in the last ball to reduce the target to 12 in the last over.
Irfan had a good chance to prove his capability to deliver in the last over, but this time, it went against him. First ball was a leg bye by new batsman McCullum. The next two balls were singles.
Target is 9 runs of 3 balls with in-form Brendon in strike. Two continuous fours of the next deliveries--both of them were beautiful shot--one over midwicket and the other one over bowlers head.
Rohit ran backwards to catch the miss-hit shot by Brendon McCullum but couldn't take his hands on the ball. He scored unbeaten 69 in 55 balls with 8 fours and a six to give New Zealand 2-0 win.
Earlier, put into bat, India scored 149 for 6 in 20 overs. Once again Gambhir failed with the bat and Sehwag couldn't continue his form.
Yuvi scored a quick fire 50, but got out in the crucial stage of the game. Skipper Dhoni added 28 but consumed 30 balls for it.
Scoreboard:
Tour: India to New Zealand
Series: T20
Match #: 2
Date: Friday February 27, 2009
Venue: Wellington
Captains: Daniel Vettori (NZ) and MS Dhoni (Ind)
Umpires: GAV Baxter and AL Hill; EA Watkin-third umpire
Toss: NZ won the toss and decided to field
Match: NZ won by 5 wickets with 0 balls remaining
Man of the Match: BB McCullum off NZ
India 149 for 6 in 20 overs (G Gambhir caught BB McCullum bowled Butler 10, V Sehwag caught Vettori bowled O'Brien 24, SK Raina caught Southee bowled Butler 0, Yuvaraj Singh caught Oram bowled O'Brien 50, MS Dhoni 2 not out, Yousuf Pathan bowled Vettori 0, RA Jadeja caught Guptill bowled Southee 19, Irfan Pathan 15 not out, Extras--3 (lb 2, w 1), TG Southee 4-0-36-1, IE O'Brien 4-0-30-2, IG Butler 4-0-42-2, DL Vettori 4-0-21-1, JD Ryder 4-0-18-0)
Fall of Wickets: 1-29 (Sehwag, 3.3 ov), 2-36 (Raina, 4.3 ov), 3-47 (Gambhir, 6.1 ov), 4-92 (Yuvraj Singh, 12.4 ov), 5-94 (YK Pathan, 13.2 ov), 6-121 (Jadeja, 16.5 ov)
New Zealand 150 for 5 in 20 overs (JD Ryder bowled Zaheer Khan 26, BB McCullum 69 not out, MJ Guptill LBW Harbhajan 10, LRPL Taylor bowled Irfan Pathan 27, JDP Oram caught Dhoni bowled Irfan Pathan 0, NT Broom caught Irfan Pathan bowled Yuvaraj Singh 5, NL McCullum 1 not out, Extras--12 (b 1, lb 6, w 5), Irfan Pathan 4-0-41-2, Zaheer Khan 4-0-30-1, Ishanth Sharma 2-0-19-0, Harbhajan Singh 4-0-15-1, RA Jadeja 4-0-21-0, Yuvaraj Singh 2-0-17-1)
Fall of Wickets: 1-53 (Ryder, 4.4 ov), 2-69 (Guptill, 8.5 ov), 3-125 (Taylor, 17.2 ov), 4-125 (Oram, 17.3 ov), 5-134 (Broom, 18.4 ov)
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