India vs New Zealand Cricket T20 Match was held in Christchurch which was played on February 25, 2009. New Zealand won the toss and elected to bowl first making India to open the tour of New Zealand.
Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle(SL)
Match Umpires: Gary Baxter(NZ) , Evan Watkin(NZ)
Third Umpire: Tony Hill(NZ)
The NewZealan team had Brendon McCullum, Jesse Ryder, Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor, Jacob Oram, Nathan McCullum, Daniel Vettori (captain), Ian Butler, Tim Southee, N. Broom Iain O'Brien.
The team of India was: Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma
Sehwag pulled out the costliest 1st over in intl T20 (19 runs) with 3 huge sixes off his 1st 3 deliveries faced. In fact, the Indians whacked 13 6’s in contrast to a total of 6 fours, while appearing that they too believed in the crush-em hype riding this tour. Could have been a humbling 1st knock in NZ for India, had it not been for Raina picking things up right at the end. Yusuf Pathan also strutted his stuff with 3 huge blows before Jacob Oram did what Adam Voges did during the Aus vs NZ T20 game to end Yusuf’s quest for six sixes in an over.
The result was India scored 162. With Suresh Raina 61 (43) runs. And NZ won the match with ease with Brendon McCullum scoring 56, Guptill 41 (28), Ross Taylor 31 (20), Jacob Oram 29 (15)
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