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Half-centuries from Devon Conway and Daryl Mitchell powered New Zealand to a 21-run win over India in a Twenty20 worldwide in Ranchi on Friday.
Put into bat, the guests began strongly with a 43-run opening partnership between Finn Allen (35) and Conway (52), earlier than Mitchell’s unbeaten 59 off 30 balls pushed them to a complete of 176.
Washington Sundar was the decide of the bowlers for India, choosing up two wickets.
The hosts’ chase then received off to a catastrophic begin as openers Shubman Gill (7) and Ishan Kishan (4) have been dismissed, whereas Rahul Tripathi was caught behind for a six-ball duck.
Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya supplied some resistance with a 68-run stand and Sundar scored a quick-fire half-century, however their efforts went in useless as Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner and Lockie Ferguson all picked up two wickets apiece.
The second recreation of the three-match sequence will happen in Lucknow on Sunday.
