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.
