IND vs NZ 3rd T20I Highlights: India defeat New Zealand to seal series; Suryakumar, Abhishek get half-centuries

India vs New Zealand Live Score: A full delivery by Bumrah, over the wicket. Santner tries to smack it over the onside. It ends up going high to Abhishek near deep midwicket for a catch.

Santner c Abhishek b Bumrah 27 (17)

NZ - 144/9 (19.1)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: A short delivery by Bumrah and Jamieson goes leg side. The ball skids ad goes past his inside edge, to hit the leg stump! OUT!

Jamieson b Bumrah 3 (5)

Then its a single for Henry. Bumrah sends it full, on the stumps and Santner ends up sending it to Kishan near long off. He sends it to Bumrah, who breaks the stump as Henry falls short while trying to take a double, 1 run completed.

Henry run out Kishan/Bumrah 1 (1)

NZ - 134/8 (18)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: A quick length delivery by Bishnoi, Phillips tries to hit it across the line. He gets it off the bottom part and sends it to deep midwicket for a catch!

Phillips c Kishan b Bishnoi 48 (40)

NZ - 112/6 (16)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: OUT! Pandya strikes again!

A short delivery by Hardik and wider. Mitchell cuts it, but doesn't get enough power. Mitchell smacks it straight down to deep cover for a catch!

Mitchell c Kishan b Hardik 14 (8)

NZ - 112/5 (14.4)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: A short delivery by Rana and Mitchell pulls it over deep square leg for a six! It was a flat maximum, shot!

Then he takes a double, to retain strike. The over ends with back-to-back singles.

NZ - 97/4 (13)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: A googly by Bishnoi, and Chapman gets an inside edge. No run. Then he takes a single. A short length delivery by Bishnoi and Phillips guides it to long off for a single. Back-to-back singles and then Bishnoi removes Chapman!

A quick delivery, wide off. Chapman nicked it to the wicketkeeper for a simple catch!

Chapman c Samson b Bishnoi 32 (23)

NZ - 86/4 (12)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: A short delivery by Kuldeep and Chapman pulls it over deep midwicket for a six. Then inside edges him for a four, to fine leg. In the third ball, Chapman takes a single, followed by Phillips slamming Kuldeep for a six. The over ends with back-to-back singles.

NZ - 62/3 (9)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Kuldeep begins the 7th over with a legbreak delivery, and Phillips carves it to deep midwicket for a single. Then Kuldeep gets back-to-back dots. In the fourth delivery, Chapman guides him to long-off for a single. The over ends with a dot and then a single for Phillips.

NZ - 39/3 (7)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: OUT! BUMRAH STRIKES IN HIS FIRST BALL!

A full delivery by Bumrah, angling in. Seifert plays down the wrong line, and is beaten on the outside edge. The ball hits the off stump.

Seifert b Bumrah 12 (11

NZ - 34/3 (5.1)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Back of a length delivery by Rana, and Phillips taps it to square leg for a single. Then Rana offers width to Phillips, who cuts it through point for a four. Rana responds with a dot and then is again sent for a four, over vacant first slip. Ends the over with back-to-back dots.

NZ - 26/2 (3)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: ANOTHER WICKET! IN THE 2ND OVER!

A short ball by Pandya, and Ravindra goes for the pull shot. He ends up sending it to the man in the deep on the leg side for a catch!

Ravindra c Bishnoi b Pandya 4 (5)

NZ - 13/2 (1.4)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: A full delivery by Rana and Conway goes down leg side, tries to smack it over mid-off. But poor connection, Pandya takes the catch! OUT!

Conway c Hardik b Rana 1 (2)

NZ - 2/1 (0.3)

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Seifert and Conway to open for New Zealand. Rana will bowl the first over for India.

India vs New Zealand Live Score: IND - Sanju Samson(w), Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Harshit Rana, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah

NZ - Devon Conway, Tim Seifert(w), Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner(c), Kyle Jamieson, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy

India vs New Zealand Live Score: After winning the toss, India captain Suryakumar said, "We'll look to bowl first. Wicket looks good, there'll be dew later on. Be fearless, take your own call, enjoy and be humble at the same time. Two changes. Arshdeep and Varun resting tonight, Bumrah and Bishnoi come in."

Meanwhile, NZ skipper Santner said, "I thought we batted quite well. Take learnings from the last game and put it into this game. Move on pretty quickly. Neesh was going to play, we've brought Jamieson for Foulkes."

India vs New Zealand Live Score: It is toss time!

India win toss, opt to bowl!

India vs New Zealand Live Score: After the 2024 T20 World Cup, New Zealand haven't won a single T20I vs Australia, England and India. They have played eight, lost five and three matches haven't had any result.

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Stay tuned, folks! Toss is upcoming! It is scheduled for 6:30 PM, with the first innings beginning at 7:00 PM.

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Suryakumar ended a drought of 24 innings without a T20I fifty. He got his fifty in the 2nd T20I. "As I've said before, I was batting really well in the nets. Everything I did back home over the last two or three weeks helped. I got a good break to spend time with my family and friends, had good practice sessions, and I'm really enjoying what's happening right now," he said.

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Despite T20 being his weakest format, Ravindra showed his attacking side in the powerplay in Raipur. He smacked Varun for two sixes in the middle overs and registered 44 off 26 balls, striking at 169.23.

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Dube has cemented his spot in the Indian playing XI. Spin-hitting is his strength, but he has also begun to dominate pacers. As an all-rounder, he also gives an option with the ball. He has taken at least one wicket in six of his last seven bowling innings.

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Duffy has bagged 22 wickets in 25 innings in the powerplay in T20Is since the end of the 2024 T20 World Cup, at an economy rate of 6.55. Only Zimbabwe's Ngarava (25) has more wickets than Duffy in the powerplay in this period.

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Speaking ahead of the match, NZ captain Santner said, “When you come up against a side that bats deep on a really good wicket, that's the way India have come out - with intent from ball one. I guess they have a license for every batter. For us, it's about trying to squeeze wherever we can.”

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Bumrah was rested in the previous fixture. He could return to action in the third T20I. There is no update on Axar's injury yet. Meanwhile, Neesham is expected to return to the New Zealand XI, in place of Foulkes.

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Kuldeep is only four wickets away from levelling Chahal as the joint-highest wicket-taker among India spinners in T20Is.

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Devon Conway, Tim Seifert(w), Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Daryl Mitchell, Mark Chapman, Mitchell Santner(c), Zakary Foulkes, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy, James Neesham, Kyle Jamieson, Michael Bracewell, Kristian Clarke, Tim Robinson, Bevon Jacobs

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Sanju Samson(w), Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Shivam Dube, Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ravi Bishnoi, Shreyas Iyer, Jasprit Bumrah, Axar Patel

India vs New Zealand Live Score: Welcome to our live coverage of today's third T20I between India and New Zealand in Guwahati.

The pressure is mounting on New Zealand ahead of the third T20I. The visitors trail 0-2 and have been second-best to India in all departments during the ongoing series.