India vs New Zealand 3rd T20I: Rohit Sharma's last ball six clinches series against Black Caps

New Zealand's woe in super over continues. 

India's Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul come to bat. 

Rohit's last ball six helps India seal the series against the Kiwis. 

India: 20/0 (super over) 

Tim Southee to ball!

New Zealand: 17/0 (super over)

Bumrah bowled for India and conceded 17 runs.

Kane Williamson and Martin Guptill batted for the Kiwis.

ICC can feel the pressure!

We have a super over!!

Last over drama for both the sides. 

New Zealand fail to win the match despite having odds in their favour. 

Ross Taylor bowled on last ball.

New Zealand- 179/5 (20 overs)

New Zealand's badluck with super overs is known to all.

Jasprit Bumrah to bowl the 18th over. 

Kane Williamson looks in good tounch and leads the team from front. 

New Zealand - 171/4 (19 overs)

They need 9 runs in 6 balls. 

New Zealand 160/4

They need 20 runs in 12 balls

New Zealand- 151/4 (17 overs)

Maybe a match deciding over. India concedes 14 runs.

New Zealand need 29 runs in 18 balls.

New Zealand 137/4 (16.0) 

Wicket falls for New Zealand.

Colin de Grandhomme, 5 runs, catch by Shivam Dube bowled by SN Thakur

New Zealand need 43 runs in 24 balls

New Zealand 128/3 (15 overs) 

New Zealand need 52 runs in 30 balls

Expensive over for Shami and team India. They concede 14 runs. 

Match leading towards final over drama. 

New Zealand- 114/3 (14 overs)

NZ reaches the 100 mark. 

New Zealand 100/3 (13 overs).

Need 80 runs in 42 balls.

Mitchell Santner bowled!

Chahal bowls Mitchell Santner. 

New Zealand - 88/3 (11 overs)

New Zealand need 92 runs in 54 balls

New Zealand - 79/2 (10 overs) 

Mitchell Santner get another lifeline as Ravindra Jadeja drops the catch. 

New Zealand need 101 runs in 60 balls.

Another good over by Ravindra Jadeja, conceded 5 runs. 

New Zealand - 72/2 (9 overs)

New Zealand need 108 runs in 66 balls

New Zealand - 67/2 (8 overs)

Shivam Dube proves costly concedes 14 runs

Powerplay comparison:

India : 69/0 (RR - 11.50)
New Zealand : 51/1 (RR - 8.50)

Colin Munro out!

Jadeja brings India back in the game. He just gives away one run and scalps a massive wicket for India. 

Kane Williamson and Santner on strike!

New Zealand - 53/2 (7 overs)

India gets a breakthrough as Martin Guptill falls!

Despite an expensive over India gets a wicket.

SN Thakur to Guptill, out Caught by (sub)Samson.

New Zealand - 51/1 (6 overs) 

Former cricketer Mohd. Kaif tweets!

New Zealand - 43/0 (5 overs) 

Chahal ends his costly over after conceding 10 runs. 

New Zealand - 33/0 (4 overs)

Munro gets hit on the rib-cage by Shami. The play was stopped for a while as the medic arrived on the ground. He will continue to bat but still looks in pain. 

Shami concedes 7 runs. 

New Zealand at 26/0 (3 overs)

Jasprit Bumrah finally comes to bowl but gets smashed for two sixes in the over by Martin Guptill.

New Zealand - 13/0 (2 overs)

Mohd. Shami concedes 5 runs in an over.

New Zealand off to a decent start, 8/0 (1 over)

Martin Guptill started his innings with a six. 

Shardul Thakur concedes 8 runs

New Zealand comes down to bat

Martin Guptill and Colin Munro come out to bat. 

Shardul Thakur to lead the bowling attack. 

India - 179/5 (20 overs)

With the help of a good start, India pose a competitive score.

Target for New Zealand: 180 runs in 120 balls

India - 161/5 (19 overs)

Virat Kohli falls to Hamish Bennett

Virat Kohli (c)  c Southee b Bennett 38 runs off 27 balls

India - 151/4 (18 overs)

Manish Pandey comes to bat. 

Tim Southee concedes 9 runs in the over.

India - 142/4 (17 overs)

Shreyas Iyer out! Falls prey to Santner. 

King Kohli for a reason. 

India - 130/3 (16 overs)

India back on track!

India - 127/3  (15 overs)

Kohli smashes a six and four in a Mitchell Santner over. 

Concedes 13 runs.

India - 115/3 (14 overs)

8 runs off the over. Ish Sodhi slows Indian pace.

India - 106/3 (13 overs)

Rohit Sharma's fastest fifty trivia:

22 balls v West Indies, Lauderhill, 2016
23 balls v Bangladesh, Rajkot, 2019
23 balls v West Indies, Mumbai, 2019
23 balls v New Zealand, Hamilton, 2020*

India - 99/3 (12 overs)

India's run-rate stumbles as wickets fall

Just 3 runs in the over. 

Terrible over for India!

India- 96/3 (11 overs)

Two quick wickets of Rohit Sharma and Shreyas Iyer bring Kiwis back in the game. 

Shreyas Iyer and Virat Kohli on-strike

India - 92/1 (10 overs) Rohit 65* (38) just three runs off one over

KL Rahul's big wicket

Rahul gets dismissed while attempting a cut, but hardly got any timing on it and send it straight into the hands of Munro standing square.

India 89/1

Kiwis find breakthrough after getting KL Rahul's wicket

Shivam Dubey on-strike!

Ro'hitman' Sharma comes in the elite list!

Indian openers with 10,000-plus international runs:

Virender Sehwag
Sachin Tendulkar
Sunil Gavaskar
Rohit Sharma*

Finally a good over from New Zealand!

Conceded 5 runs in Mitchell Santner over

India - 77/0 (7 overs)

8 runs off Ish Sodhi's over

Rohit Sharma on fire! India- 69/0 (6 overs)

27 runs off that over! 

Rohit smashes three sixes and two fours in Hamish Bennett's over. Brings up his half-century in style. 

India-  42/0 (5 overs)

Mitchell Santner welcomed by Rohit Sharma with a boundary.

8 runs off the over

Skippers share a light moment before the match

India- 34/0 (4 overs)

8 runs off Scott Kuggeleijn over.

India- 26/0

9 runs off this over. 

Rohit Sharma  12 runs off 11 balls

KL Rahul 14 runs off 7 balls

Tim Southee- 13 runs- 2 overs

General Trivia

The batting strike rate of 142.11 at Seddon Park, Hamilton in T20Is is the highest among all the venues where at least 2000 balls have been bowled so far.

India- 17/0 (2 overs)

Good over for India as 13 runs of the over, off Hamish Bennett. 

KL Rahul smashes the ball for a six

India- 4/0 (1 over)

Four runs off one over, Rohit Sharma opens his account with a boundary.

Players arrive on the ground

Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul will begin the innings for India. 

Tim Southee to bowl the first over.

New Zealand's record on this ground

New Zealand's record in Seddon Park is comparatively better than Eden Park. The Kiwis have lost just two of their 9 T20Is here. Tim Southee has referred the pitch in this ground as a 'typical white-ball pitch'.

Playing XI

India: Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli (c), Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Manish Pandey, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohd. Shami, Jasprit Bumrah

New Zealand: Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Kane Williamson(c), Colin de Grandhomme, Ross Taylor, Tim Seifert(w), Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Scott Kuggeleijn, Ish Sodhi, Hamish Bennett

Virat Kohli: I reckon. Playing on this surface for the first time in a long time. Should be a pretty good track to bat on. We're 2-0 up, and it's time to put in a clinical performance again. Not worry about too many things conditions and jet lag. We're playing an unchanged team again.

Kane Williamson opts to field after winning the toss: New surface, and hopefully we get something first up with the ball in our hand. One change: Kuggeleijn comes in for Tickner. Similar skills sets in terms of bowling the heavy, hardball.

Blast from the past

Don't see many changes happening to T20 World Cup squad: Vikram Rathour

Ahead of the third T20I against New Zealand, India batting coach Vikram Rathour said that the team management now knows what the core of the side will be for the upcoming T20 World Cup.He also added that he does not see many changes happening to the squad for the World cup later this year in Australia."