India content another splendid fightback to take arrangement 5-0

New Zealand looked on course for triumph at 116/3, yet for the third time in progression, India's bowlers scripted an astounding late rebound to gain the guests a decisive victory, with a seven-run victory in Mount Maunganui on Sunday, 2 February. 

Pursuing 164 in the fifth and last T20I for a relief win, New Zealand could scarcely have had a more awful beginning. Martin Guptill, Tom Bruce and Colin Munro all fell inside the initial 20 bundles of the pursuit. Guptill was caught in front by Jasprit Bumrah, Bruce was run out for nothing in a horrible stir up with Tim Seifert and Colin Munro was castled by Washington Sundar as he attempted to hit him for a third limit in progression. 

New Zealand ripped at their way back in the pursuit through a deliberate association among Seifert and Ross Taylor. Things began looking significantly progressively positive for the hosts as the innings advanced, and it appeared as though New Zealand had guided the ship their way in the tenth over, when Seifert and Taylor hit four sixes and two fours off Shivam Dube. 

The over started with Seifert pounding one over profound mid-wicket. He followed that with a draw over profound square leg for six. Off the third ball he endeavored a scoop and got an inside edge to the fine-leg limit. Taylor at that point flicked one to profound mid-wicket, and a touch of terrible handling from Sundar gave the host group four more. It turned out Dube had even exceeded on that one and Taylor belted the free hit for six increasingly over profound mid-wicket and finished the over off with another hit in a similar district. Thirty-four runs fell off that over making it the second-generally costly over in all T20I cricket, just behind Yuvraj Singh's acclaimed six sixes off Stuart Broad in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2007 installation in Durban. 

The necessary rate dropped to under seven an over, and the hosts looked bound to win. In any case, that hadn't included for much in the last two games for New Zealand when they neglected to finish off prevailing positions, permitting India to tie the two games. Losing both those Super Overs may have prodded the pair to face challenges to attempt to finish off the game sooner, yet the move exploded backward. 

Seifert fell for a well-made fifty when he attempted to play a draw off Saini. That wicket was the opening India required as they took wickets in quick progression to sink New Zealand from 116/3 to 133/8. Ross Taylor attempted to keep things alive and went past his fifty, yet when he got a scratch to the attendant off Saini in the eighteenth over, it was everything except over for the hosts. 

Bumrah was the pick of the bowlers for India, taking 3/12 in his four overs, yet Saini's spell of 2/23, including the wickets of both half-centurions was similarly conclusive. 

Prior, India again lost Sanju Samson right on time as the batsman, sent in to open in front of Rohit Sharma, hit a spread drive noticeable all around off Scott Kuggeleijn. The willful downgrade to No.3 didn't appear to influence the skipper as he looked relentless from the beginning. KL Rahul was the attacker in what was to turn into a splendid association, yet Rohit found the limit with expanding normality. 

Rahul glanced in brilliant touch and a hurled roll over the spread limit off Tim Southee featured exactly how well he was seeing the ball. His innings of 45, bound with four fours and two sixes, finished when a ball from Hamish Bennett halted on him to take the main edge. 

Rohit went past his fifty and looked set for much more, yet pulled up with what appeared calf uneasiness in the seventeenth over, resigning his innings at 60 off 41 balls, including three sixes and the same number of fours. That was his 25th thump of at least fifty in T20Is, which took him past Virat Kohli for the record. 

Shreyas Iyer (33*) discovered help in Manish Pandey, who struck a six and a four in the last over of the innings to take India past 160.