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Ind Vs Nz 1St T20i Ashwin Bhuvneshwar Limit Kiwis After Guptill Chapman Threatened Big Score

IND vs NZ | 1st T20I: Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar limit Kiwis after Guptill, Chapman threatened big score

Both New Zealand and India made a reasonable start to the T20 series in the first game of the series in Jaipur. Having been asked to bat first on a wet surface, new Zealand were helped by a controlled yet commanding innings by Mark Chapman and Martin Guptill, who batted like glue that held the Blackcaps batting together.

Chapman hit his second fifty of the T20 internationals and finished with a 50-ball 63 by Ravichandran Ashwin, who was at his best with the ball. He first got India back in the game by breaking the stand between Chapman and Guptill by luring the left-hander with a slower delivery. He dismissed Glenn Phillips in the same over with a carrom ball that the batsman had no clue of to derail what was progressing as a good batting effort by the Kiwis.

No other New Zealand batsmen could find timing and firepower to go from the word go and Guptill took it upon himself to keep New Zealand ahead in the game. He hit some gigantic sixes of Deepak Chahar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar before the former found him caught at the boundary.

India could have conceded runs in excess of 180 runs with the kind of platform Chapman and Guptill provided them with but Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammed Siraj ensured they could not go beyond 164 runs in their 20 overs of batting.

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Bangladesh Women punish Zimbabwe Women to clean sweep ODI series

Bangladesh Women punished Zimbabwe Women by seven wickets with as many as 190 balls remaining in the third ODI of the series to register a clean sweep in the three-match long ODI series in Bulawayo. Zimbabweans won the toss and elected to bat first but Bangladesh Women had different ideas as the left-arm spinner Nahida Akter-led bowling attack swept the hosts’ batting lineup for 72 with a five-wicket-haul. Sharne Mayers was the highest scorer from the hosts’ side and she scored more than fifty per cent of the runs scored by the Zimbabwe Women. As many as six batters were dismissed for a duck as the hosts were skittled inside 28 overs. In reply, Bangladesh Women were steady with the bat and although they lost three wickets at regular intervals, there was no collapse to rescue the down and out Zimbabwe Women and the visitors were all over them in all three games of the series. They had won the first ODI of the series by eight wickets while the second ODI produced a nine-wicket win for the Bangladesh Women.

IND vs NZ | 1st T20I: Mark Chapman leads Blackcaps' resurgence after Bhuvneshwar's swinging start

After the new captain, Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bowl first on a wet surface at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, India were off to a brilliant start with Bhuvneshwar Kumar finding prodigious swing to castle the man in form Daryl Mitchell. However, their celebration was short-lived as the new addition to the New Zealand side, Mark Chapman hit a fighting and fluent fifty to put the Blackcaps in the game. After losing the wicket in the first over, Chapman and Martin Guptill stitched a controlled partnership of 95 runs. He reached his fifty in T20 internationals in 45 balls and it was his first such milestone for New Zealand. He has one half-century in T20 cricket while playing for Singapore. India are playing their first game under the new leadership group of Rohit Sharma, Rahul Dravid and KL Rahul while the Blackcaps are without their full-time captain Kane Williamson. They are also without Devon Conway. India handed Venkatesh Iyer T20 international debut and he is likely to bat in the lower middle order and he was also expected to roll his arm overs for some overs with the ball. However, the skipper Rohit Sharma did not offer him that opportunity till the 12th over of the game.

T10 League 2021-22: A look at the squads

The T10 league 2021-22 is slated to begin on Friday (November 19) with Northern Warriors taking on Delhi Bulls in the first match of the day in Abu Dhabi and this will be followed by the clash between Team Abu Dhabi and Bangla Tigers at the same venue. The tournament will also have some former India cricketers featuring in it. The likes of Yusuf Pathan, Munaf Patel, Abhimanyu Mithun will be a part of their respective sides. Here’s a look at the squads for the teams. Team Abu Dhabi: Colin Ingram, Ahmad Daniyal, Chris Benjamin, Phil Salt, Paul Stirling, Obed McCoy, Danny Briggs, Jamie Overton, Naveen Ul Haq, Liam Livingstone, Chris Gayle, Marchant De Lange, Fidel Edwards, Rohan Mustafa, Mohammad Faraazzudin Delhi Bulls: Ravi Rampaul, Adil Rashid, Sherfane Rutherford, Rilee Roscoe Rossouw, Dominic Drakes, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Jason Roy, Dwayne Bravo, Shiraz Ahmed, Hafeez-Ur-Rehman, Nyeem Young, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Akeal Hosein, Devon Thomas, Romario Shepherd, Sohaib Maqsood, Jaskaran Malhotra, Gulbadin Naib Chennai Braves: Dushmantha Chameera, Maheesh Theekshana, Dhananjaya Lakshan, Migael Pretorius, Mark Deyal, Nicholas Pooran, Yusuf Pathan, Darren Bravo, Munaf Patel, Muhammad Shahzad, Tion Webster, Dasun Shanaka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Laxman Majrekar, Khalid Shah, Angelo Perera, Samiullah Shinwari, Curtis Campher, Chamika Karunaratne, Roman Walker, Ravi Bopara, Toby Albert Deccan Gladiators: Tom Banton, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Andre Russell, Evin Lewis, David Wiese, Najibullah Zadran, Odean Smith, Rumman Raees, Tymal Mills, Wanindu Hasaranga, Hamid Hassan, Tom Moore, Wahab Riaz, Asif Khan, Zahoor Khan, Sultan Ahmed Bangla Tigers: James Faulkner, Benny Howell, Faf du Plessis, Muhammad Amir, Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher, Qais Ahmed, Hazratullah Zazai, Will Jacks, Hassan Khalid, William Smeed, Adam Lyth, Karim Janat, Luke Wood, Isuru Udana, Sabir Rao, Tom Hartley, Vishnu Sukumaran Northern Warriors: Rovman Powell, Chris Jordan, Moeen Ali, Rayad Emrit, Samit Patel, Imran Tahir, Upul Tharanga, Kaunain Abbas, Umair Ali Khan, Rameez Shahzad, Kennar Lewis, Abhimanyu Mithun, Josh Little, Ross Whiteley, Gareth Delaney, Yo Mahesh Vijayakumar

IND vs NZ | 1st T20I: Venkatesh Iyer makes debut for India

All-rounder Venkatesh Iyer is set to make his T20I debut for India during the New Zealand game in Jaipur. Iyer made a name for himself in the second half of the Indian Premier League in the UAE while playing for the Kolkata Knight Riders who eventually ended as the runners up. The Men in Blue will be taking on the Blackcaps in a three-match T20I series at home. This would be the first assignment for both Rahul Dravid who was appointed as the new head coach of the team and new T20I captain Rohit Sharma after taking up the respective posts. While Dravid replaced Ravi Shastri whose tenure ended with the conclusion of the T20 World Cup, Rohit has taken the captaincy baton from Virat Kohli. Kohli had earlier announced that he would step down from the T20I captaincy after the T20 World Cup. “We have Shreyas Iyer back, Venkatesh is debuting , Bhuvi, Siraj and Chahar are back. We're playing three spinners and two spinners. We have one eye on the next World Cup,” Rohit Sharma who opted to bowl first after winning the toss said.