Live Cricket Score: New Zealand vs India, 3rd T20I, Hamilton

India chase down 18 with last-ball six; Clinch series

Incrediblescenes in Hamilton. India seemed down and Out in the Super Over when the strike turned back to Rohit with 10 required off 2 balls. Then somehow, Southee lost his radar. He served up two deliveries on the slot, the first Rohit deposited into the stands behind deep mid-wicket. The final ball is another slower delivery, Rohit puts it beyond the long-off fence.

Kohli and Co. come rushing to the ground. It's a maiden T20I series win for India in New Zealand. It's incredible how New Zealand have lost after yet another Super Over. The third time it has happened in the last 12 months. This should not even have gone to the Super Over.

Kane Williamson's masterful 95 (don't forget that knock and his battle with Bumrah) took New Zealand to an equation of 2 from 4! Shami and his hard lengths pushed it to the Super Over and then it was over to Rohit!

Southee to bowl the Super Over. Rohit and Rahul walk out! 18 to win.

Williamson 2, Bumrah 0; India need 18 to win

Not Bumrah's day at all. Starts well in the Super Over. Gives away just 2 runs off the first two. Misses his length off the third, Williamson jumps across and laps it over fine leg for six. Next ball is a full toss that's hit past long-off for four. Guptill finishes the over with another four through mid-wicket!

New Zealand will bat first. Williamson comes out with Guptill. India stick with Bumrah despite his bad day so far.

It's a Super Over

Incredible! How have we got here? New Zealand needed 2 off 3 when KW got out for 95. Shami went back of the length and outside off - similar deliveries to the one that got KW. Seifert doesn't make contact with two of those, Taylor scampers through for a bye off the next.

Incredibly, Taylor plays on off the final ball with 1 required and we are going into a Super Over!

No ton for Williamson

It's 95 but that doesn't make it any less special. An absolute masterclass from KW. Just 2 to win from 3 here now. Williamson looks to ramp that Shami delivery, but only manages a feather to Rahul. Rousing ovation!

That back of a length delivery has worked like a charm for Shami. Seifert plays and misses two but Taylor scampers across for a bye off the second one!

Bumrah finishes with 4-0-45-0

Clearly not his night. Bowls one on the slot to Taylor, who whips him through mid-wicket for four. Attempts a yorker to Williamson, who squeezes it to fine-leg for another boundary. Just 9 off 6. One hit and it should be done!

A mini comeback by Chahal

9 runs from that over. But no boundaries. 20 off 12. Bumrah will bowl the penultimate!

Williamson 1 Bumrah 0

Could be the match-defining over - that 17th bowled by Bumrah - India's (possibly the World's) best at the death. But New Zealand's captain has handled him with aplomb. He realises that the slower ones are bowled outside off-stump and makes that initial movement to the off and strikes the seamer for three boundaries. Bumrah returns with two yorkers, the second of which costs two because of a needless overthrow! Big battle that KW has won. 29 off 18

The class shines through

This has been quite brilliant from Kane Williamson. Make no mistake, NZ needed him today on a slow pitch. And his class has shone through in a 28-ball fifty, while most of his teammates have struggled. To take control of the run-chase from where the hosts were, against a ball that's turning quite big, it's a special effort from the captain. They should win it from here. 44 needed off 26.

Williamson provides spark

India's fielding lapses have played a part, but the New Zealand captain has found some good touch out there. He's timed the ball well to reinvigorate the chase after the dismissals of Guptill and Munro had brought about a brief stutter.

Guptill, Munro gone

Short, wide, filth from Thakur - it gets rid of Guptill as he slaps it towards deep point where substitute Sanju Samson takes a good catch coming forward. In the very next over, Ravindra Jadeja spins one through Munro for a stumping. New Zealand are now stuttering. They've promoted Santner to No. 4 to make it easier against the ball turning in, but there's significant turn for Jadeja and Chahal.

Right idea from the openers

Martin Guptill jumped out of the crease off just his second ball to hammer Shardul Thakur over his head in trademark fashion. He's looked to take the attack to the new ball, which is the correct approach on a slow pitch. India, on their part, have mostly bowled the right lengths - banging it into the pitch, which is where Bumrah resided at the start of his spell. But Guptill found a counter, backing away and carving a couple of sixes over third man.

NZ need 180 to stay alive

Straight off the bat, it's not going to be easy. It's a slow pitch at Seddon Park, which definitely played a part in the turnaround as the new batsmen coming in couldn't get to grips quickly enough. Shivam Dube, Shreyas Iyer and even Virat Kohli to an extent found it difficult to get the ball away. There's turn on offer, as evident by Iyer's dismissal to Santner. Also, Sodhi played a central role in India's slowdown in the middle overs. Even the New Zealand pacers, after getting some tap in the powerplay, pulled their lengths back and bowled their cutters into the pitch to good success. All signs point to a challenging chase coming up. Getting a headstart against the new ball, ala Rohit, will be key.

The fightback

New Zealand have refused to be blown away in the Rohit-Rahul vortex. They've been in the eye of the storm, and have since got back on their feet with quick wickets of both. Rahul failed to find much room on the cut, offered a simple catch to backward point off de Grandhomme. It was Rohit's wicket though that New Zealand so dearly cherished, made even sweeter that it came via Bennett, whose deception with the slower ball fetched some redemption along with a miscue to long-on.

Just a side bit: India's No.3 experiment with Shivam Dube didn't prove to be a hit. Dube struggled against the short ball, then sliced one down to third man.

Oh snap!

You knew it. Rohit Sharma's silence in this series was never going to endure. But he hasn't just roared back among the runs, he's exploded. Hamish Bennett takes the full impact, going for 27 in his second over with Rohit going 6, 6, 4, 4, 6. And just like that, the Indian opener has brought up his fifty off 23 balls.

Early thoughts

There's that spongy bounce that Doull and Laxman talked about in the pitch report. The ball's not quite coming along that well. Having said that, India are still off to another brisk start. Rahul continues to look in irrepressible touch. He's found a scoring zone behind the wickets, fortuitously upper-cutting Bennett over third man, then deliberately ramping Southee over the keeper. Rohit's taking his time at the other end.

Team analysis

New Zealand have brought in Scott Kuggeleijn, as Bharat Sundaresan predicted in his