Virat Kohli Achieves Incredible Feat As Indian Captain

Team India has won yet another bilateral series. This time New Zealand was the victim of India’s thrashing. Backing on seven continuous series wins in limited-overs cricket after the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, team India travelled to New Zealand. They beat Kiwis 5-0 at their home and ended the series as a humiliation for the hosts. India became the first team to register a 5-0 clean sweep in a T20I series in international cricket.

India beat New Zealand in the fifth game of the series to clean sweep 5-0. India put on another scintillating performance and beat the Kiwis by seven runs in the final game of the series.

Rohit Sharma led the Men in Blue in Virat Kohli’s absence and India batted first to put a total of 163-3 in their 20 overs. Chasing the target, the Kiwis could only manage 156-9 in their 20 overs and thereby, lost the game and the series 5-0.

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Virat Kohli Becomes an Elusive Captain:

India’s victory saw some major records being broken. New Zealand has now become the team with most losses in T20I cricket at home. This was India’s only third clean sweep in a three-plus match series.

Captain Kohli also achieved an excellent record after India’s victory. With the 10th bilateral series win as captain, Virat Kohli has now surpassed Faf du Plessis who has 9 series wins to his name in first 15 T20I series as captain.

Most bilateral series wins as captain (after 15 T20I series)
10 – Virat Kohli
9 – Faf du Plessis
7 – Eoin Morgan
6 – Darren Sammy
5 – MS Dhoni

Meanwhile, Team India has clean swept New Zealand 5-0 after winning the final game of the series.

India posted a total of 163-3 in 20 overs. The Kiwis had the game in their hand for a long time but the batting collapsed once again for the Kiwis from 115-3 to 141-9 and could manage only 156 runs in their 20 overs.

Team India will now face New Zealand in a three-match ODI series that begin from 5th February.

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