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New Delhi: Team India won the three-match series against New Zealand by 2-1, while achieving their biggest win in T20 International. India defeated the Kiwi team by a huge margin of 168 runs. Earlier in 2018, the Indian team had achieved its biggest win by defeating Ireland by 143 runs. Not only this, India has also shattered the record of Pakistan’s biggest victory made almost a year ago. Pakistan’s biggest win was on September 2, 2022 over Hong Kong by 155 runs.

Batting first, the Indian team scored 234 for four on the basis of Shubman Gill’s first T20 International century. After this the Indian pace bowlers showed their fire and bundled out New Zealand for 66 runs in 12.1 overs. Captain Hardik Pandya took the maximum four wickets for 16 runs. Arshdeep Singh, Umran Malik and Shivam Mavi also got two wickets each in the match. Only two New Zealand batsmen could reach double digits. Hardik was declared Player of the Series.

Shubman Gill won hearts
Player of the match Shubman Gill welcomed New Zealand on the current Indian tour with a blistering double century in ODIs. Then he became the youngest Indian to score a double century in ODIs. In the farewell match of the Kiwi team’s tour, Gill once again scored a century and this time he became the youngest Indian to score a century in T20 International format. Gill’s heart-warming century helped India score 234 for four against the Kiwis.

India made the biggest score
India put up their highest total (234/4) in this format against New Zealand. It is also the highest team total made in T20 International at the Narendra Modi Stadium. Earlier, in March 2021, India had scored 224 runs for two wickets in 20 overs against England. Gill’s score of 126* is also the highest individual score by a batsman in T20 Internationals at this ground. Earlier, the highest T20 score by a batsman here was 83* which was scored by England’s Jos Botler in 2021.

Gill spoke in boundaries
Gill, continuing his excellent form, hit 12 fours and seven sixes in just 63 balls. He thrashed the New Zealand bowlers all around. Electing to bat after winning the toss, the Indian team did not start well and Mitchell Santner played a master stroke by giving Michael Bracewell the second over. The off-spinner also lived up to his captain’s faith by dismissing Ishaan Kishan lbw on the second ball of the over. Gill hit Lockie Ferguson for two fours in the next over. He doubled the entertainment for the spectators with hits, drives and pull shots. Gill hit Blair Tickner for three fours in the fifth over to take the score to 44 for one.

These batsmen also created furore with the bat
Young Rahul Tripathi (44 off 22 balls) also kept up the pace, hitting Ferguson for a four and a six in successive balls. Tripathi then hit Santner for a four and a straight six over short fine leg. He looked aggressive and hit Ish Sodhi over extra cover for his third six of the innings. But in an attempt to play such a big shot, Ferguson was caught at deep square leg. Gill scored his first T20 half-century in 35 balls by scoring a single off Santner. Gill stood at one end and Suryakumar Yadav (24 off 13 balls) joined him at the crease, who also kept up the pace of adding runs, but was caught by Bracewell at mid-off in the 13th over. Gill completed his century in the first ball of the 18th over by hitting Ferguson for a four at mid-off. After this, he batted freely and sent the next ball of the same bowler for a huge six. Captain Hardik Pandya (30 off 17 balls) also did not let the run rate slow down. But Gill upped the ante after his century and New Zealand’s bowling attack looked haphazard.

Indian cricket’s new ‘run machine’
Shubman Gill is in amazing form this year. He has played 11 innings in ODIs and T20 Internationals from January 5 to February 1. In this, he has scored one double century, three centuries and one half century. His scores during this period have been 5, 46, 70, 21, 116, 208, 40*, 112, 7, 11, 126*. Gill, who was unable to convert his half-centuries into a century some time ago, has now made up for that shortcoming. He had played five matches earlier in T20 International but did not have a single fifty in his name. He crossed the 50-run mark for the first time and converted it into a century.
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