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DELHI THE HINDU 20 SPORT SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2020 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE India has the last laugh as Super Over jinx haunts Kiwis again After Manish takes the visitors to 165, the hosts make a mess of the chase with just 11 runs needed off two overs; Kohli’s men go 4­0 up in series

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD New Zealand had already DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD suffered a setback with talis­ Team news manic captain Kane William­ B son unable to play, having Here’s how the dugouts changed for the fourth not fully recovered from a T20I: shoulder injury suffered while fielding in game three. B INDIA B In: Samson, Washington and Backbone Saini It was left to lusty hitting by B Colin Munro and Seifert to Out: Rohit, Jadeja and Shami (all rested) provide the backbone of the innings with Munro making B NEW ZEALAND 64 and Seifert out in the final B In: Bruce, Mitchell over for 57. India, sent in to bat, made B Out: de Grandhomme, 165 for eight on a flat track Williamson (injury) DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD with the innings anchored by an unbeaten 50 from Manish In a slow start to its reply, Pandey and his partnerships New Zealand was 23 for one with Thakur and Navdeep after five overs. Saini. But in the sixth over, Mun­ India was six for 88 in the ro found his timing with a six 12th over before Pandey and and two fours to get the sco­ Thakur arrested the slide reboard moving. with a 43­run stand as Tha­ Munro and Seifert put on kur contributed 20. 72 off 44 deliveries before the Saini, who was not out 11 former was run out in a INDIA IN NZ last two games is unbelieva­ four wickets to finish 165 for in his first appearance on smart piece of relay fielding ble,” Kohli said. seven and set up the Super tour, put on 22 with Pandey involving Thakur and Kohli “It feels good when you Over. off the last 13 deliveries. who threw down the stumps. Agence France-Presse are out of the game and then Wellington somehow find a way to come SCOREBOARD India snatched the fourth back and that shows the cha­ T20I against New Zealand on racter of the team.” INDIA 10.2), 6-88 (Washington, 11.3), FALL OF WICKETS Friday after yet another Sup­ The win puts India 4­0 up K.L. Rahul c Santner b Sodhi 39 7-131 (Shardul, 16.3), 8-143 1-22 (Guptill, 4.2), 2-96 (Munro, er Over was needed to sepa­ in the five­match series, with (26b, 3x4, 2x6), Sanju Samson c (Chahal, 17.5). 11.4), 3-97 (Bruce, 12.1), 4-159 Santner b Kuggeleijn 8 (5b, (Taylor, 19.1), 5-163 (Seifert, rate the two sides as the New Zealand stand­in cap­ NEW ZEALAND BOWLING 1x6), Virat Kohli c Santner b 19.3), 6-164 (Mitchell, 19.5), 7- scores were tied following Southee 4-0-28-1, Kuggeleijn tain Tim Southee not happy Bennett 11 (9b, 2x4), Shreyas 4-0-39-1, Santner 4-0-26-1, 165 (Santner, 19.6). the regulation 20 overs. that his side could not wrap Iyer c Seifert b Sodhi 1 (7b), Bennett 4-0-41-2, Sodhi 4-0- INDIA BOWLING New Zealand, batting first the game up in the 20 overs. Shivam Dube c Bruce b Sodhi 12 26-3. Shardul 4-0-33-2, Saini 4-0- in the decider, made 13 with “It’s very tough, especially (9b, 2x4), Manish Pandey (not NEW ZEALAND 29-0, Bumrah 4-0-20-1, Chahal Tim Seifert dropped twice in the position we got our­ out) 50 (36b, 3x4), Washington Martin Guptill c Rahul b Bumrah 4-0-38-1, Washington 2-0- before he was eventually selves into and then to give Sundar b Santner 0 (3b), 4 (8b), Colin Munro run out 64 24-0, Dube 2-0-14-0. dismissed. Shardul Thakur c Southee b (47b, 6x4, 3x6), Tim Seifert run them a chance at the end, Toss: New Zealand. In reply, India captain Vi­ they’re going to grab it with Bennett 20 (15b, 2x4), out 57 (39b, 4x4, 3x6), Tom rat Kohli hit the winning runs both hands,” he said. Yuzvendra Chahal c Seifert b Bruce b Chahal 0 (3b), Ross Match tied. Southee 1 (2b), Nitin Saini (not with a ball to spare. The Kiwis, chasing India’s Taylor c Shreyas b Shardul 24 Super Over: New Zealand 13/1, out) 11 (9b, 2x4); Extras (b-2, (18b, 2x4), Daryl Mitchell c The third match had also 165 for eight, went into their India 16/1 (0.5 overs). lb-3, nb-1, w-6): 12; Total (for Dube b Shardul 4 (3b, 1x4), Man-of-the-Match: Shardul. ended in a Super Over with last over only needing seven eight wkts. in 20 overs): 165. Mitchell Santner run out 2 (2b), Rohit Sharma hitting sixes off runs to win and with seven FALL OF WICKETS Scott Kuggeleijn (not out) 0 India leads five-match series the last two balls to take In­ wickets in hand. 1-14 (Samson, 1.3 overs), 2-48 (0b); Extras (lb-7, w-3): 10; 4-0. Judicious mix: Manish Pandey accelerated the scoring without taking undue risks, as wickets dia home. However, they were res­ (Kohli, 4.3), 3-52 (Shreyas, 6.3), Total (for seven wkts. in 20 Final T20I: February 2 (Sunday), fell around him, to give India a competitive total. * GETTY IMAGES “What’s happened in the tricted to six runs and lost 4-75 (Rahul, 8.4), 5-84 (Dube, overs): 165. Mount Maunganui, 12.30 p.m. It shows character of the team, says Kohli ‘Two Super Over finishes have taught me to bounce back when chance comes’

Press Trust of India won two. It shows the cha­ Wellington racter of the team,” Kohli India captain Virat Kohli, on said. Friday, said he has learnt an important lesson in the back­ Looking at 5-0: Manish to­back Super Over finishes Crediting India’s win to the against New Zealand. never­say­die attitude, mid­ “There’s something new dle­order batsman Manish I’ve learnt in the last couple Pandey said the team would of games: when the opposi­ push for an unprecedented tion is playing well, you stay 5­0 series whitewash in the calm till the end and try to fifth T20I. come back,” Kohli said. “It has been our motto, He said having come out not only for these two victorious in two consecu­ matches, that till the time the tive Super Overs for the first last ball is bowled, we won’t time proves the character of give up any match. the team. “If you play with that in­ “We couldn’t have asked tent you will get matches like for more exciting games, these where you might get a we’ve never played Super Super Over, and you win Twist to the tale: The Indian players are a delighted lot after forcing the game Overs before and now we’ve from there,” he said. into a Super Over. * GETTY IMAGES Thiem surmounts the Zverev challenge Cleaver and Chapman Gives himself another chance to break the stranglehold of the Big Three lift NZ-A AUSTRALIAN OPEN But the 22­year­old lost fo­ cus and two double faults in Press Trust of India AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE game three of the second set Christchurch Melbourne handed Thiem a 2­1 lead. Zverev managed to break Dane Cleaver smashed an A tireless Dominic Thiem back but he was too erratic unbeaten century as New came from a set down to out­ as Thiem broke again and Zealand­A put India­A in a last German Alexander Zve­ clung on, firing an ace to tight spot by amassing 385 rev and make his first Austra­ take set two. for five in its first innings lian Open final on Friday, Bizarrely, play was halted on the second day of the booking a showdown with for nine minutes one game first unofficial Test here on seven­time champion Novak into the third set when a Friday. Djokovic, a man he called light went out above the ba­ After Will Young (54) the “king”. seline and it bothered completed his half­centu­ The 26­year­old fifth seed, Zverev. ry, the host suffered a mini­ the first player from Austria When they resumed, collapse, losing three wick­ ever to reach the Melbourne Thiem held serve and then ets cheaply but Cleaver (111 decider, battled past se­ broke with an epic backhand off 194 balls) and Mark venth­ranked Zverev 3­6, winner as Zverev again lost Chapman (85 off 187 balls) 6­4, 7­6(3), 7­6(4) on a swel­ concentration and the mo­ resurrected the innings, tering evening. mentum appeared to shift. adding an unbeaten 209 “It was an unreal match, Thiem is one of the best runs for the sixth wicket. two tie­breakers, so tough returners in the game and At stumps, the duo was and so close. It was almost was getting almost every ball at the crease with New Zea­ impossible to break him,” back. He looked to be on his land taking an overall lead said Thiem. “Being in the dends as he coolly closed out straight back. way, but Zverev refused to of 169 runs. Australian Open final is un­ the match after three hours Their momentum was in­ surrender and broke again to Resuming at 105 for two, real. What a start to the sea­ and 42 minutes to give him­ terrupted when rain began even it up. overnight batsmen Young son for me.” self another chance to break falling and the roof needed It went to a tiebreak (54) and Ajaz Patel (38) ad­ Defending champion Djo­ the stranglehold of the Big closing, but it was only a where Thiem turned on the ded 66 runs before the kovic awaits him after the se­ Three and win his first brief intermission and Zve­ style to take a stranglehold former was sent back in the cond seed ended Roger Fe­ Grand Slam. rev resumed to hold for 2­2. on the match. 49th over by S Sandeep derer’s dreams in straight Thiem was still struggling Warrier. Lights failure THE RESULTS sets on Thursday to make his with his first serve and a dou­ Young’s 50 was laced eighth Melbourne Park final. A jittery Thiem was broken ble fault handed the German with six boundaries, while Final “He’s the king of Australia,” in the opening game, saving a chance to go 4­3 in front Patel hit four fours and Thiem said of the Serb. two break points before and he grabbed it. Women’s doubles: 2-Timea Babos & Kristina Mladenovic bt three sixes in his 66­ball But there is a glimmer of sending a backhand wide to Zverev took command, 1-Hsieh Su-wei & Barbora Stry- innings. hope for Thiem. Djokovic is immediately be on the back putting 90% of his booming cova 6-2, 6-1. The scores: foot. 6­4 in their head­to­heads, first serves in, and broke Semifinal India-A 216 in 54.1 overs vs but the Austrian has won Both players were ner­ again to seal the set as the Men’s singles: 5-Dominic New Zealand-A 385/5 in 114 four of the last five. vous and the German failed Austrian error­count Thiem bt 7-Alexander Zverev overs (Dane Cleaver 111, Mark That experience paid divi­ to consolidate, broken mounted. 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(3), 7-6(4). Chapman 85). CM A ND-NDE YK