New Zealand vs India , 1st T20I at Hagley Oval, Christchurch , IND in NZ, 5 T20Is, 2026 , Oct 22, 2026 Scorecard

19.6: Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Glenn Phillips, FOUR! What a way to end the innings. Innovation at its very best. 14 runs off the final over as New Zealand finish on 225/4. Kumar slips in a full ball, on middle. Phillips switches his hands on the bat and shapes up as a left-hander. He swings it away in front of square. There is only one man square of the wicket on the off side for the right-hander, and he is well beaten to his right.

19.5: Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Glenn Phillips, Low full toss, on off. Phillips powers the drive wide of long off. Tilak Varma is swift to his right there but can't pick the ball up in one go, allowing the batters to come back for the second run comfortably.

19.4: Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Michael Bracewell, Bracewell shuffles across but Bhuvi sticks to his line and length, a yorker, on off. Michael digs it out to extra cover for a single. New Zealand move to 219, this is now their highest T20I score on home soil.

19.3: Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Glenn Phillips, Back to the wide line, on a good length. Phillips reaches out and spanks it on the bounce to Axar Patel at deep cover. Just a single. 7 runs off the over so far.

19.3: Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Glenn Phillips, Wide. Slower bumper, outside off. Phillips hops to flay at it but misses as the ball goes over his head. Wide given for height.

19.2: Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Michael Bracewell, On a length, pushed across the left-hander. Bracewell extends his hands and plays the lofted hit to the right of deep cover. Naman Dhir covers a lot of ground to his right and slides before Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, on as a sub, converges and tidies up. Three runs taken and that brings Phillips back on strike.

19.1: Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Glenn Phillips, Keeps it around the tramline and the length is pulled back a bit. Phillips reaches out and has a swing at it. Drags it back towards the bowler and Bhuvi can only make a half-stop. A single is taken as the ball deflects towards extra cover.

19.1: Bhuvneshwar Kumar to Glenn Phillips, Wide! Beyond the tramline, Phillips lets it go.

18.6: Nitish Kumar Reddy to Glenn Phillips, A full toss, outside off. Phillips loses his shape and mistimes it down to long off for just a single.

18.5: Nitish Kumar Reddy to Glenn Phillips, FOUR! Incredible shot. Reddy nearly gets the yorker in, on off. Phillips hangs deep in the crease and stays beside the line. Gets just enough leverage to get under the ball and he goes inside out to the right of deep cover for a boundary. One bounce and over the ropes. 11 runs off the over with a ball to go. New Zealand move to 210 and this is now their highest T20I score at this ground.

18.4: Nitish Kumar Reddy to Glenn Phillips, Low full toss, on middle, that is slogged away to the left of deep mid-wicket for a brace.

18.3: Nitish Kumar Reddy to Glenn Phillips, FOUR! Up and over. Reddy gets the yorker wrong and dishes out a full toss, outside off. Phillips gets his hands through the line of the ball and slams it over extra cover. The man from the inner ring and another at deep cover give chase, but the ball wins the race.

18.2: Nitish Kumar Reddy to Michael Bracewell, Yorker attempted, on middle. Bracewell mistimes the heave down to long on for a single. The 200 is up for New Zealand.

18.1: Nitish Kumar Reddy to Michael Bracewell, Given LBW but successfully overturned. Well, well, that looked pretty straight in real-time but Bracewell survives. Reddy bowls the seam-up ball. He goes for the yorker, but it comes out as a low full toss, angled in from around the wicket, on middle and leg. Bracewell shuffles across the stumps for the scoop. He tries to take it on the full but misses and gets pinged low on the front pad. At the request of Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell takes the review. No bat involved on UltraEdge, but the Ball Tracking has the ball missing the leg stump by a coat of varnish. The batters had crossed over for a leg bye but since the on-field umpire had given it out, the ball is deemed dead. So, it stays as a dot.

17.6: Arshdeep Singh to Michael Bracewell, Had to hurry! A direct hit could have found Bracewell wanting there. Closer to the off stump, on off. Michael creams it away straight to extra cover and scampers through for the single. A clean pick-up by Shreyas Iyer but he misses his shy at the bowling end as Bracewell dives to get home.

17.6: Arshdeep Singh to Michael Bracewell, Wide. This drifts beyond the tramline, very full. Bracewell lets it go.

17.5: Arshdeep Singh to Glenn Phillips, Attempts the yorker but it comes out as a low full toss, wide on off. Phillips reaches out and powers it to deep cover for one more run.

17.4: Arshdeep Singh to Michael Bracewell, Low full toss, tailing back in, on middle. Bracewell plays around his front pad as he flicks it to deep backward square leg for a single.

17.3: Arshdeep Singh to Glenn Phillips, OUT! BEVON JACOBS IS RUN OUT! Excellent piece of work by Arshdeep Singh. Singh gets the yorker in, around the off stump. Phillips jams it out right beside him and hesitates at first before Jacobs calls him through for a quick single. Arshdeep gets to the ball quickly on his follow-through and kicks it onto the stumps with his left boot. He manages to hit the stumps as Bevon puts in a desperate dive. Nothing more than a polite enquiry from the Indians, and it is sent upstairs. The replays find Jacobs to be short despite the dive. That is a wicket given away cheaply.

17.2: Arshdeep Singh to Glenn Phillips, FOUR! In the gap. Arshdeep takes pace off and pushes it across the right-hander, on a good length. Phillips feasts on the width as he carves to the left of Axar Patel at deep point for a boundary.

17.1: Arshdeep Singh to Bevon Jacobs, With the field set for the wide yorker, Arshdeep steams in from over the wicket. Low full toss, near the tramline. Jacobs slices it to deep backward point for a single.