ICC World Twenty20 2016 - 13th Match
(Super 10 Group 2 - India vs New Zealand)
NZ spin trio hand India shock defeat
| New Zealand | vs | India |
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| 126/7 (20) | 79/10 (18.1) | |
| New Zealand won by 47 runs | ||
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| Photo © ICC |
For a long time, this New Zealand team was under the charge of a man who loved a gamble or two. But would even Brendon McCullum have been funky enough to go up to his two best bowlers, Tim Southee and Trent Boult, on the team's opening match of a World T20 and say, 'Pick up the bibs, lads. You're out.'? Kane Williamson did. He saw a dry Nagpur pitch, heard how the ball had turned during the qualifier games at the venue and asked Nathan McCullum, Mitchell Santner and Ish Sodhi to clock in for duty. The first of those three spinners is in the twilight of his career, the other two had played only five matches each. And India had no answers against them.
No one expected it to go down like this. MS Dhoni and his men came into the tournament on a seven-match winning streak. They were back home now, just as New Zealand were in alien territory. They had not played in the subcontinent for two years, and their batting had all the symptoms of it to put up only 126 for 7.
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