Twitter Reacts As Mitchell Santner, Daryl Mitchell Help New Zealand Beat India In Ranchi T20I

The JSCA International Stadium Complex in Ranchi hosted the T20I series opener of the three-match series between the Hardik Pandya-led India National Cricket Team and the Mitchell Santner-led New Zealand National Cricket Team on Friday, January 27.

New Zealand National Cricket Team defeated India National Cricket Team by 21 runs in the match to take a 1-0 lead in the series. The second T20I will be played at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Sunday, January 29.

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The coin landed in Hardik Pandya’s favour and India National Cricket Team elected to bowl first in the match. Prithvi Shaw was unable to make it to the playing XI and Kuldeep Yadav was preferred over Yuzvendra Chahal.

New Zealand National Cricket Team, on the other hand, made two notable changes to the playing XI as Tom Latham and Henry Nicholls were replaced by Mark Chapman and Ish Sodhi.

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Skipper Pandya opened the attack for his side against the Kiwi opening duo – Finn Allen and Devon Conway – and conceded 12 runs. Arshdeep Singh bowled the second over and conceded 11 runs, Washington Sundar gave just 3 singles in the third over and Arshdeep once again went for 11 in the fourth over.

In the fifth over, Washington Sundar cleaned up Finn Allen on the second ball after getting smashed for a six on the first ball and after bowling brilliant dot deliveries he cleaned up Mark Chapman for a duck on the final ball of the over. Allen scored 35 runs off 23 balls, with 4 fours and 2 sixes. Deepak Hooda gave away just 4 singles in the 6th over and at the end of the powerplay, the Kiwis were at 47/2.

Then, Conway stitched together good 60 runs in 47 balls with Glenn Phillips, before the latter’s dismissal for 17 in the 13th over, which was bowled by Kuldeep Yadav.

Arshdeep Singh dismissed set batter Conway in the 18th over and the power-hitter Michael Bracewell also got run out for 1 in the same over. The 31-year-old Kiwi opener scored 52 runs off 35 balls, including 7 fours and 1 six.

In the end, Shivam Mavi bowled an incredible 19th over as he conceded just 8 runs while dismissing Mitchell Santner. However, left-arm seamer Arshdeep bowled a terrible 20th over and gave away 27 runs. Daryl Mitchell remained unbeaten and smashed brilliant 59 runs off 30 balls, including 3 fours and 5 sixes. The BlackCaps posted a huge 176/6 on the board while batting first.

Chasing the target, India were off to the worst possible start as they lost the top 3 – Shubman Gill (7), Ishan Kishan (4) and Rahul Tripathi (0)- for just 15.

However, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya stitched together 68 runs in 51 balls to help their side gain some momentum. The No.1 ranked T20I batter scored 47 runs off 34 balls, including 6 fours and 2 sixes, before being cleaned up by Ish Sodhi in the 12th over. In the next over, Hardik Pandya was dismissed for 21 by Michael Bracewell.

In the end, Washington Sundar smashed a brilliant half-century, but no support from the other end meant India were restricted to 155/9. Captain Mitchell Santner was the star performer for his side in the bowling department as he gave away just 11 runs in his 4-over quota and picked up 2 wickets.

Here’s How Twitter Reacted To India vs New Zealand 1st T20I:

Beating New Zealand is not as easy as some women made it look. pic.twitter.com/xwMG0MA1RL

— Manya (@CSKian716) January 27, 2023

Washington Sundar is such a fantastic young cricketer to have. So much potential. If he manages to stay fit, would be a really good asset across formats.#INDvNZ

— Rohit Sankar (@imRohit_SN) January 27, 2023

This is the first time India had 2 maiden overs in a men's T20I chase.

— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) January 27, 2023

Prithvi Shaw already went to MS Dhoni's home with him and enjoying Butter chicken.

— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) January 27, 2023

Lockie gets a wickets as soon as his mo is showing a lil bit? ?

— Sritama (Ross Taylor’s version) (@cricketpun_duh) January 27, 2023

Santner might just be best T20 finger spinner in the world,maybe along with Theekshana.

Man bowls like dream even though there is no mystery to his bowling.#IndvsNZ #Crickettwitter

— Akash Kumar Jha (@Akashkumarjha14) January 27, 2023

SKY is like de Bruyne. de Bruyne's always looking around to see where the defense has left a gap, where the space is developing. SKY is always looking at the field for where the boundary is available.
And then he aims at that gap, not matter where the ball is. Not batting.

— cricketingview (@cricketingview) January 27, 2023

Washington Sundar has just hit the very six which Kohli hit the other day which people wrote poems about as a shot only Kohli could play.

— cricketingview (@cricketingview) January 27, 2023

Good knock but Sundar's dad is still not going to be happy today.

— Manya (@CSKian716) January 27, 2023

@SushantNMehta Hardik pandya is quietly going under the radar wrt his batting he isn't the same batter anymore but is still batting at that crucial position…and coz india has been winning

— TUSHAR (@Tushar178Yadav) January 27, 2023

I predicted early in newzealand innings that india will lost this game by 27 runs arshdeep is the real culprit !!#IndvsNZ2ndODI #arshdeepsingh

— Ejaz Butt (@_Ejaz_butt) January 27, 2023

The Last over Arshdeep given 27 runs and India lost by 25 runs….#INDvNZ

— Vallavan ?? (@VallavanCricket) January 27, 2023

Today is such a day where India defeat NZ in a knockout, and India lose to NZ in a bilateral.

— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) January 27, 2023

Teams defending < 200 vs India in India

167 by NZ Chennai 2012
126 by NZ Nagpur 2016
196 by NZ Rajkot 2017
176 by NZ Ranchi 2023 #INDvNZ

— Deepu Narayanan (@deeputalks) January 27, 2023

India successfully losed first T20?… Arshdeep's last over is the game changer?…#INDvsNZ | #Cricket | #HardikPandya | #arshdeepsingh | #WashingtonSunder

— Midhun ??? (@secrettracker) January 27, 2023

Thodi galiyan inhen bhi suna dijiye. 3 icc trophy jiti tb ye bnda panauti nhi tha kya . Bhai kha se aate hai ye log bc ?#indvsnz https://t.co/qqJOl4qTfw

— lucky Srivastava (@luckysrofficial) January 27, 2023

This match is lost due to #arshdeepsingh.
2nd defeat in which he is clearly alone responsible.#INDvsNZ
Bowling lots of #noballs , bowling boundry balss and giving too many extras.
Pathetically bowled by him feom his 1st delivery.

— Himanshu Kolhatkar ?? (@hk_cool) January 27, 2023

https://twitter.com/KhushiS40677743/status/1619018650727616512?t=zesXCQxQ0irCwCRMAkcB4w&s=19

So team India lost because of Hardik(the way he gave his wicket)or Arshdeep’s last over? #INDvsNZ #questiontime

— Sachin Pandey (@sachin_16a) January 27, 2023

Fifty from 25 balls, Great fight by Washington Sundar but it was too late.#INDvsNZT20I #INDvsNZ

— Rohit Kumar (@rohit22yard) January 27, 2023

India lost exactly by 21 runs. If #arshdeepsingh had not bowled that #Noball, we would have won.
When will the captain think of getting him out of the team#HardikPandya? #RahulDravid #INDvsNZ #T20I

— Vibhav Dholakia (@Vibhir) January 27, 2023

?#INDvsNZ pic.twitter.com/6WuEcfzRPw

— ICT(NICK) (@CrushCricket) January 27, 2023

Congratulations ? @BLACKCAPS , satner absolutely fantastic.#indvsNz

— Abdul_Qayum (@Mastan_99) January 27, 2023

Ho Gaya
Lita diya Suja Diya NZ ne
Karwa Ji beijjati
Shayad #SuryakumarYadav
Aur #HardikPandya? ne Match thoda aur deep le jana tha toh match Jeet jate But Well Played #WashingtonSunder #INDvsNZ https://t.co/ajHwxVM3xU

— Yogesh Giri (@GiriYogi1998) January 27, 2023

#indvsnz #matchkamuzrim@aajtak @BCCI @surya_14kumar @arshdeepsinghh
Totally flop show pic.twitter.com/ETN9VYRE9v

— Hemant (@barjatyahemant1) January 27, 2023

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