Newzealand won the toss and elected to bowl first.India started their batting well.Virendar sehwag showed his strength of consecutive 3 sixes in the first over.
But the Gambhir missed the ball and clean bold by O'brien.The wickets cannot remains same.Sehwag went out for 26 off 10 balls.R sharma,yuvraj and Dhoni came and scored few runs.So it became 5-61 in the 8th over.Yusuf pathan scored 20 runs off 8 balls.His brother came and got just 12 runs.Suresh Raina and Harbhajan contributed good partnership.
Raina scored 61 not out and final score was 162 for 8.
Newzealand came to chase the 163 target.Ishant sharma started well with the Ryder dismissed (2-1).Opener McCullam and Guptill contributed 54 runs,then Taylor and Mccullam scored 50 runs and finally Jacob Oram and Mccullam not out partnership of 57 runs in their home ground
NZ 166 for 3 in 18.5 overs
IND 162 for 8 in 20 overs
24 sixes were hit in this match which is a record in any T20
B Mccullam scored 56 not out with 2 fours and 3 sixes.He is a hero to get victory against India
The next and final T-20 match is on 27th FEB '09
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