Chasing a target of 250 runs at the Dubai Stadium, New Zealand lost their tenth wicket for 245 runs in the 46th over. India won the match by 44 runs and topped the Group A points table. Now the first semi-final will be between India and Australia. This match will be held at the Dubai Stadium on March 4.
The second semi-final will be held at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on March 5. In this semi-final, New Zealand, who lost today, will play the top team of Group B, South Africa.
In the India-New Zealand match being played at the Dubai Stadium hosted by Pakistan, Santner hit Varun Chakraborty for the 99th six of the mega event. This was the 44th over, and this six raised hopes that Santner and Matt Henry would together take the match to victory.
The 424th boundary of the mega event was also hit by Santner, in front of him was bowler Kuldeep Yadav. But in the next over, Santner fell victim to Varun Chakravarthy.
The Kiwis scored 197 runs at the end of 44 overs. They needed to score 56 runs from 36 balls. Santner was bowled clean by Warun. This was Warun’s fourth wicket in this over. On the fourth ball of the same over, New Zealand’s Matt Henry was also caught by Varun Chakravarthy’s ball. This was Chakravarthy’s fifth wicket.
Batting first, the Indian team scored 249 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in the allotted 50 overs. India’s top order struggled against New Zealand and three players of the Indian team returned to the pavilion for just 30 runs, Shubman Gill 2, Rohit Sharma 15 and Virat Kohli 11 runs.
India’s Shreyas Iyer top-scored with 79 runs, Hardik Pandya scored 45 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 fours, while Amit Patel scored 42 runs.
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