India was scheduled to play a 7 Match T 20 International series in New Zealand in 2009. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 2 and 5. The 1st T 20 international match was to be played on Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand. India holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.
India won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how India team and 11 was looking like in this 1st T 20 international match: Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, R Sharma, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar, Yusuf Pathan
And New Zealand team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st T 20 international Match: Jacob Oram, Brendon McCullum (wk), Kyle Mills, Daniel Vettori (c), Ross Taylor, Jesse Ryder, Iain O’Brien, Grant Elliott, Neil Broom, Martin Guptill, Ian Butler
India batted well and was able to post total of 152 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with top scores of R Sharma who made 60 runs in 50 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls and V Sehwag who made 40 runs in 20 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.
New Zealand was needed to score 153 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.
New Zealand batted well but was unable to chase the target of 153 runs and was only able to make 145 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and lost the game by 7 runs and with top contributions from Brendon M who made 60 runs in 50 balls with 6 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls.
India won the match by 7 runs and series stands at 1-0 in favor of India with 6 more games to play.
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