Team India defeated New Zealand by 5 wickets

Suryakumar Yadav played 62 runs innings in the match.

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Team India defeated New Zealand by 5 wickets in first of the three matches T20 series and have taken a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. In the match played at Jaipur's Swai Mansingh Stadium, Team India achieved the target of 165 runs by losing just 5 wickets in 19.4 overs. With this win, the pair of captain Rohit Sharma and coach Rahul Dravid have passed their first Test.

Virat Kohli had left the captaincy of the T20 format and Rohit was given the command. Team India is playing the first T20 series as Rohit's full-time captain. Rohit played a captain's inning in the match as he went to score 48 runs. Apart from this, Suryakumar Yadav played a brilliant innings of 62 runs. Batting first after losing the toss, New Zealand scored 164 for the loss of 6 wickets. Martin Guptill and Mark Chapman hit half-centuries. The second match of the series will be played on November 19 in Ranchi.

We are off to a winning start! 👏 👏

The @ImRo45-led #TeamIndia seal a 5⃣-wicket victory in first @Paytm #INDvNZ T20I in Jaipur. 👍 👍

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— BCCI (@BCCI) November 17, 2021

Team India got off to a decent start chasing 165 runs. The team had scored 50 runs without a wicket in the first 5 overs. After this, KL Rahul was dismissed for 15 runs by Mitchell Santner followed by captain Rohit Sharma who got out after scoring 48 runs. He faced 36 balls. He added 59 runs for the second wicket with Suryakumar Yadav. Rohit's wicket was taken by left-arm fast bowler Trent Boult. 

Suryakumar Yadav hit half-century

 This is his biggest innings in T20 International. He also scored his third fifty. Shreyas Iyer 5 and new comer Venkatesh Iyer were dismissed after scoring 4. The team needed 10 runs in the last over. Iyer hit a four in Daryl Mitchell's over. He also bowled 2 wide balls. Rishabh Pant (17*) and Axar Patel (1*) returned unbeaten. Pant finished the match by hitting a four on the fourth ball.

Guptill-Chapman's half-century

Earlier, captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bowl. New Zealand scored 164 runs with the help of fifties from Martin Guptill and Mark Chapman. Guptill scored 70 off 42 balls and Chapman scored 63 runs in 50 balls. At one point of time, it seemed that the New Zealand team would score 180, but R Ashwin curbed the run-rate by taking two wickets in the same over. Ashwin took 23 runs in four overs and Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 2-2 wickets for 24 runs.