T20 World Cup 2021: Indian batting line-up struggles against New Zealand, crawl to 110
Ravindra Jadeja with 26* helped India to get their score beyond 100, otherwise, it was looking very murky in Dubai against New Zealand.
New Zealand restricted India to just 110 runs in their game in T20 World Cup | Photo: ICC
It ain't happening this year or seems so as after being put in to bat first again in the ongoing ICC Men's T20 World Cup Team India had a worse batting performance than their game against Pakistan none of their batters could stay on the crease for a bit long against New Zealand.
The innings started with a new opening combination with Ishan Kishan and KL Rahul but it followed a similar script to that of the Pakistan game.
Trent Boult troubled his Mumbai Indians teammate Ishan Kishan in the first over trapping him in the crease and on the pads a couple of times but the left-hander got through them. In Boult's second over, he even smashed a boundary over the leg side but got too greedy after that.
Tim Southee after getting hit for a boundary on the first ball of came back well in the final over of the powerplay to dismiss KL Rahul, who pull the short delivery from the right-arm pacer straight into the hands of deep square leg.
Rohit Sharma after hitting a couple of boundaries couldn't resist himself hitting against a short ball bowled by the leg-spinner Ish Sodhi, who now has 18 wickets to his name against India in T20Is as now the men in bluw were reduced to 40/3 in the 7th over of the innings.
Trying to up the ante, Virat Kohli took on Ish Sodhi but he decided to go after the wrong delivery as it was outside off and he went for the shot towards leg side and couldn't time it well and hit straight into the hands of the long-on fielder Trent Boult as the leg-spinner took his second wicket of the evening.
Kohli is gone
Trying to up the ante, he attempts a big one against Sodhi but fails.
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It was just a domino effect. With every new batter coming the hopes rose, that he will make runs, he will help India get to 140-150, but everyone looked so confused as to at what pace to play and when to attack and when not, they were just hitting straight to the fielders.
Ravindra Jadeja with 26* helped India to get their score beyond 100, otherwise, it was looking very murky.
Trent Boult picked up three wickets, but it was leg-spinner Ish Sodhi, who strangulated the Indian batters in the middle and continued his wicket-taking run against the men in blue.