New captain Hardik Pandya raises hope in a rain-hit tie that handed a sequence win to India

A T20 sequence win towards New Zealand underneath a brand new captain, coming carefully on the heels of an embarrassing T20 World Cup exit. A notion of a brand new awakening, just for the story to repeat itself on the largest showpiece occasion within the format – the T20 World Cup. Time will inform how this seems.

When Rohit Sharma led India on to the sphere at Jaipur on November 17, 2020, simply three days after the Black Caps misplaced the T20 World Cup ultimate in Dubai, it was purported to usher in a brand new period. New faces got here in, new mixtures had been tried, a new-found strategy was injected in, experiments grew to become the theme for the following 10 months. In the tip, when the T20 World Cup



arrived a yr later, England confirmed within the semifinals how out of depth India are within the format.

And as India clinched the sequence in Napier with a 1-0 scoreline after the third and ultimate T20I resulted in a tie, (rains arrived when India wanted yet one more run to be thought-about victors as per Duckworth-Lewis) the lingering query on everybody’s lips is the place do they go from right here.

India end on par with the DLS rating and the match ends in a tie.

Brief scores: New Zealand 160 in 19.4 overs (Devon Conway 59, Glen Phillips 54, Mohammed Siraj 4/17, Arshdeep Singh 4/37) tied with India 75/4 in 9 overs (Hardik Pandya 30 n.o) by way of DLS technique.