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India chase 4-0 at Eden Park: fourth T20I against New Zealand on Friday, 30 October, at 12:30 pm IST
With the five-match series already won 3-0, India play the fourth game in Auckland before the finale at Seddon Park, Hamilton, on 1 November.
India, who have already taken the five-match T20I series 3-0, meet New Zealand in the fourth game at Eden Park, Auckland, on Friday, 30 October. The first ball is at 12:30 pm IST, 8 pm in Auckland.
How India got to 3-0
The first two matches, both in Christchurch, went down to the final over. India chased 226 with two balls to spare in the opener and won by four wickets. In the second, they slid to 70 for 5 before Tilak Varma and Nitish Kumar Reddy took them home, again by four wickets, with one ball left.
Wellington on 27 October needed no such nerve. New Zealand made 199, and Abhishek Sharma’s 113 off 38 balls, with eleven sixes, took India past it in 13.2 overs. The six-wicket win, with 40 balls to spare, settled the series.
Telugu interest
Hyderabad’s Tilak Varma is Shreyas Iyer’s vice-captain on this tour, and Visakhapatnam’s Nitish Kumar Reddy has chipped in with bat and ball; he took Finn Allen’s wicket in Wellington.
With the series decided, the last two games give India a chance to finish the tour’s T20 leg unbeaten. The fifth and final T20I is at Seddon Park, Hamilton, on Sunday, 1 November.
Illustration: Telugu Scope. BCCI crest; flag of New Zealand.
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