New Zealand beat India by seven wickets in the fifth and final T20I at Seddon Park, Hamilton, on Sunday. India, who won the first three games, take the series 3-2. New Zealand had won the fourth match in Auckland by 87 runs.
India 191/8 (20 overs)
- Ishan Kishan 61 (32 balls), Shreyas Iyer 50 (23), Naman Dhir 33 (23), Nitish Kumar Reddy 22 (17), Tilak Varma 6 (8).
- Adam Milne took 4/19, removing both openers, Nitish and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
- Kishan now has 1,220 T20I runs in 37 innings this year, passing Suryakumar Yadav's Indian calendar-year record of 1,164 from 2022.
New Zealand 195/3 (18 overs)
- Tim Seifert made 93 off 50 balls with 11 fours and 5 sixes, then inside-edged Nitish Kumar Reddy seven short of a hundred.
- Glenn Phillips made 65 not out off 38 and added 86 with Seifert for the third wicket. His 341 runs in the series are the most in a bilateral T20I series, beating Phil Salt's 331.
- It was New Zealand's highest successful T20I chase against India.
Telangana Today noted that Tilak, Naman and Nitish could not find big hits late in the innings. The ODI series starts on November 4 in Auckland, according to The Sports Encounter.
