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New Zealand Target 159 to India

India vs New Zealand, Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I at Auckland: India Restrict Kiwis to 158/8 Cricketnext Staff | Updated: February 8, 2019, 1:10 PM IST 2nd T20I, Eden Park, Auckland 08 February, 2019 LIVE NOW : Toss won by New Zealand (decided to bat) New Zealand 158/8 (20.0) R/R: 7. LIVE BLOGAUTO REFRESH ONOFF OUT: A great finish by the Indians as Khaleel bags another one on the last ball of the innings. Kiwis finish with 158/8 in 20 overs, India need 159 to win. OUT: Khaleel bowls a full delivery in the last over. And then Santner gets a healthy edge and chops the ball on the stumps. This is brilliant by the Indians as the score is 155/7. RUN OUT: India are pulling things back with some brilliant fielding. Vijay Shankar fields the ball in the deep and Ross Taylor is short of the ground. Kiwis are 153/6 in 19 overs. It's a bad ploy to use Hardik as a death bowler and Kiwis are starting to exploit him. Taylor flicks him to a cracking four towards the midwicket boundary. It's 141/5. OUT: After a fine knock de Grandhomme ends up giving a simple catch to Rohit off Hardik. His brilliant 28-ball 50 comes to an end. It's 128/5. SIX, SIX: De Grandhomme has changed the course of this match single-handedly and scored two sixes in the same over of Krunal. That has taken Kiwis to 99/4 in 12.3 overs. Moving on from the controversial LBW decision, Chahal has been introduced into the attack. But Krunal has broken the back of Kiwi batting line up. Here is another one for Krunal as Williamson tries to play across the line and pays the price for it. He is LBW for 20. Kiwis are 50/4. OUT: There is a huge appeal for an LBW against Daryl Mitchell off Krunal, but there is a clear inside edge. But the third umpire has adjudged him out. This is certainly a controversial decision. Anywho, Kiwis are 43/3. OUT: Krunal Pandya comes into the attack and bowls in tandem with brother Hardik. He has straightaway done the trick and accounts for Munro's wicket. Kiwis are 41/2. OUT: Seifert hits Buvneshwar for a four and six in the same over but the bowler strike back and claims a wicket. Seifert dances down the track and edges the ball, that goes straight into the hands of Dhoni. It's 15/1. New Zealand (Playing XI): Tim Seifert(w), Colin Munro, Kane Williamson(c), Daryl Mitchell, Ross Taylor, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Scott Kuggeleijn, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson Rohit Sharma After Toss: We were looking to bowl first anyway. I know we lost the last game, but chasing has been our strength. We have spoken about what we need to do with bat and ball. Hopefully we can get a win today. We just need to do the right things and do them consistently. We discussed what went wrong in the last game. Hopefully we won't repeat them. We are playing the same team. I know there will be a lot of talk about Krunal and Kuldeep. Kuldeep has been top class for us. TOSS: New Zealand have won the toss and elected to bat first. Once again it looks like a great batting pitch and the Kiwis will look to make the most of it again. After a humiliating 78-run loss against the Kiwis in the first T20I at Wellington, India would like to stage a comeback and level the series. But it will be a tough task for them given that the batting line-up still looks fragile. Hello and welcome to the live blog of the second T20I. OUT: A great finish by the Indians as Khaleel bags another one on the last ball of the innings. Kiwis finish with 158/8 in 20 overs, India need 159 to win. OUT: Khaleel bowls a full delivery in the last over. And then Santner gets a healthy edge and chops the ball on the stumps. This is brilliant by the Indians as the score is 155/7. RUN OUT: India are pulling things back with some brilliant fielding. Vijay Shankar fields the ball in the deep and Ross Taylor is short of the ground. Kiwis are 153/6 in 19 overs. It's a bad ploy to use Hardik as a death bowler and Kiwis are starting to exploit him. Taylor flicks him to a cracking four towards the midwicket boundary. It's 141/5. Colin de Grandhomme gets to his maiden half-century in T20Is and perishes off the very next ball by hitting it straight to covers. Rohit seems to have hurt his finger in the process. We hope nothing is serious🤞#CricketMeriJaan #NZvIND OUT: After a fine knock de Grandhomme ends up giving a simple catch to Rohit off Hardik. His brilliant 28-ball 50 comes to an #indvsnz #indiavsnewzealand