New Zealand is hosting India for a three-match T20 series. The first game got abandoned due to rain without a ball being bowled.
Team India tried a new opening pair of Rishabh Pant and Ishan Kishan. However, Ishan Kishan did something which left everyone in splits.
Ishan Kishan keeps everyone waiting as he walked out to bat with the wrong gloves.
Kishan came in with both right-hand gloves and just as he was about to cross the boundary rope, he realized his mistake. Just as it was shown on the camera that he brought both right-hand gloves the commentators couldn’t control their laughter as this was certainly a once-in-a-while kind of mistake made by Ishan.
The left-handed opener straight away signalled towards the dressing room and asked for a left-hand glove. Shardul Thakur came running towards Kishan as he handed over him the right set of gloves. In the mean time, the New Zealand fielders kept waiting as they had already took their fielding position.
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After a slight delay, the opening duo came in to bat. However, they weren’t able to give the kind of start that the Men in Blue were looking for. Pant got out after making just six runs for which he took thirteen deliveries. While Kishan did score 36 runs but ended up playing 31 deliveries for that.
Team India were really sluggish in the first half of their innings as they were placed on 75-2 on a high scoring venue. However, when Suryakumar Yadav came in to bat he looked like someone from another planet. The aggressive batter kept on playing shots right from the word go and eventually struck his hundred in no time. Surya played a surreal knock of 111 runs off just 51 deliveries on a pitch where no other Indian batter could score freely.
At one point, it looked like Suryakumar Yadav will take India’s total beyond the 200 mark but Tim Southee came in with different plans to bowl the last over. He grabbed a hat-trick as he departed Pandya, Hooda and Sundar and kept Yadav off-strike as India finished with a total of 191-6.
