LIVE Match : India Vs New Zealand 1st T20 2020 | IND VS AUS Match Live Streaming | Match Highlights

Confident Team India take on injury-struck Kiwis in a rare five-match T20 International series starting on Friday during which seam-friendly wickets would be a major challenge for the visitors. The team arrived in Auckland on Tuesday and chose to rest on Wednesday.

Despite the recent good record in the shortest format, there is a downbeat mood in the hosts’ dressing room thanks to the 3-0 shellacking received in Australia over the past month. It hasn’t helped matters that the disappointing loss to their trans-Tasman rivals has raised questions about Kane Williamson’s future as captain.

The average first innings total in New Zealand since January 2016 is 183 – the highest among all the nations.

Among batsmen, Martin Guptill is 64 shy of 2,500 runs in T20Is while Colin Munro needs six sixes to get past Chris Gayle’s tally (105).

KL Rahul (1,237) needs 63 more to cross 1300 runs.

Tim Southee (75) needs two wickets to become the seventh-highest wicket-taker.

The last time India played a T20 series in New Zealand (2019), Ambati Rayudu was the leading run-scorer (190), followed by Shikhar Dhawan (188). Both are missing this time, with Rayudu out of choice and Dhawan injured.

The live streaming of India vs New Zealand will be available on Hotstar. The live telecast will be available on Star Sports 1/HD, Star Sports 2/HD, Star Sports 1 Hindi/HD, Star Sports SELECT 1/HD, Star Sports 1 Tamil.

Former India leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan has applied for a position in the national selection panel along with former off-spinner Rajesh Chauhan and left-handed batsman Amay Khurasiya. All the three former India internationals have confirmed to PTI that they are offering their candidature for a place in the selection committee


Squads:

India: Virat Kohli (Capt.), Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul (wk), Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar.


New Zealand: Kane Williamson (Capt.), Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor, Scott Kuggeleijn, Colin Munro, Colin de Grandhomme, Tom Bruce, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner, Tim Seifert (wk), Hamish Bennett, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Blair Tickner.