India vs New Zealand 2nd T20I Highlights: SKY helps IND edge past valiant NZ, level series 1-1

Suryakumar whips it over the infield and sends it down the ground for four to win the game for India. Take a bow New Zealand, they have taken this game down to the second last ball of the match despite the fact that they were defending just 100 runs. Not often you get to see a T20 match as low scoring as this get such a dramatic ending but here we are! Just three players did not bowl for New Zealand as Mitchell Santner extracted as much spin as he could from his squad. 

The second ball is a dot, India need 5 to win off 4. Then the third is smashed right back to Tickner by Suryakumar, it wasn't much of a chance but at this stage, they all count. India take a single, need 4 to win off 3. 

Blair Tickner bowling the last over, Hardik Pandya on strike. That four has helped India a great deal but who would have thought this match would come down to the last over. This match belongs in a different era of T20 cricket. 

A fantastic 19th over from Lockie Ferguson spoiled as Pandya latches on to a straightish delivery and pulls it away square to the boundary. India need 7 off 7! 

Well there is a biggish discussion here between the New Zealand players. India seem to have sort of dug themselves into a hole here. All of a sudden, the runs needed are more than the balls left. 

The fact that this chase has gone into the last four overs shows just how difficult this pitch has been for batters and just how resilient New Zealand have been. SKY is on 16 off 24 balls, if anything he has got a chance to show that he has the temperament to play the longer formats, while Pandya is on 2 off 4. They need 23 to win off 24. They have taken it as slow as slow innings can get. 

Well that is just ridiculous from Suryakumar Yadav. Loud appeal for LBW against him and he just sets off, ignoring all the calls of "No" from Washington Sundar and insisting that the latter should set off. In the end, both batters end up at the same end and Sundar just steps forward a little bit to sacrifice his wicket. That one is on SKY. There was no need for a single there and Sundar was very quick to ask him to go back. 

Sundar run out (Tickner) 10 (9), India 70/4 in 14.3 overs

Washington Sundar has walked in ahead of Hardik Pandya and he hits a straight and full delivery from Phillips past short fine leg for a boundary. 

Rahul Tripathi goes for a big sweep after two dot balls off Sodhi, Phillips runs to his right at deep midwicket and pouches the ball. 

Tripathi c Phillips b Sodhi 13 (18), India 50/3 in 10.4 overs

Oh a run out and a wicket from nowhere for New Zealand. Kishan tried running a second but bowler Phillips runs after the ball and sends it to Santner standing right at the stumps. Replays show that Kishan couldn't quite get anything behind the stumps. New Zealand are up against it here but they never give up in the field. 

They need 57 to win off 72 balls. This should be as straightforward a chase as they come unless the Indian batters take some utterly unnecessary risks. It may not make for extremely an entertaining watch but it will do the job, which is the most important thing always. 

Sodhi goes full for the first ball  of the eighth and Tripathi goes down on one knee and sends it sailing back over the bowler's head. Long-off runs accross and puts in the dive but the ball beats him to the boundary. 

They need 71 to win off 84 balls. They are behind New Zealand in terms of runs but ahead in terms of wickets in  hand. 

Length ball around off from Michael Bracewell, Gill pulls but the ball turns and takes the top edge. Finn Allen gets an easy catch at deep square leg. 

Gill c Allen b Bracewell 11 (9), India 17/1 in 3.5 overs

Shortish delivery from Santner, Gill doesn't miss out, he cuts it past point for four. 

Ishan Kishan pulls Duffy behind square leg for the first boundary of the innings off the last ball of the first over. New Zealand go to spin quickly as well, Bracewell bowling the second. 

Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan walk out, Jacob Duffy to bowl the first over for New Zealand. 

India need to score 100 runs to level the series. Safe to say that the hosts are the favourites today. Seven Indian players bowled today and only one of them - Shivam Mavi who bowled the last, did not get a wicket. The spinners knocked the wind out of New Zealand's sails in the powerplay and Pandya also did well to keep the pressure up from one end in that period. Now for India to respond. 

Can they reach three figures? Santner is on strike, having scored 16 in 17, Arshdeep Singh will steam in for the last over. 

The Kiwi scorecard is going to cut a sorry picture. First Ish Sodhi lobs the ball to Pandya at midwicket and then off the ball after the next, Ferguson parries a snorter away from his body and into the hands of the wicketkeeper running to his right. New Zealand 83/8 in 18 overs. 

A brilliant over from Pandya produces a wicket for him. He sets Bracewell up with two bouncers and a full ball and now a steep bouncer for Bracewell to try and hook. Arshdeep takes it over his head at fine leg, has to throw the ball up as the momentum forced him to take a step beyond the boundary and then catches it again after he has both feet planted inside the playing area. 

Bracewell c Arshdeep Singh b Pandya 14 (22), New Zealand 80/6 in 17 overs

And New Zealand are still about 24 runs away from reaching the three-figure mark. India have put a real stranglehold on them thus far but they would hope not to let that pressure go in any way in the last four overs. Hooda and Kuldeep have bowled out while Sundar and Chahal have one over left each. Pandya bowling the 17th. There has to be one more over from a pacer and so Arshdeep will bowl today. 

Captain Mitchell Santner managed to find a boundary at last off the third ball of the 14th over, driving the slightly overpitched delivery from Sundar through covers. 

All that could go wrong with New Zealand seems to be going wrong in this innings. Chapman goes for a reverse-sweep, it falls short of Kuldeep at third man. Kuldeep seemed to have lost his footing while going for the catch but, the batter is nowhere near the crease! Ball goes back to the wicketkeeper, and Ishan Kishan takes the bails off. Hardik Pandya can't stop laughing. 

Chapman run out (Kuldeep Yadav/Ishan Kishan) 14 (21), New Zealand 60/5 in 12.5 overs

Two overs without a wicket for a change for New Zealand, which might be a nice way to start building a partnership. Michael Bracewell and Mark Chapman are the batters in the middle.