India vs New Zealand, 1st T20I, New Zealand tour of India, 2026 - Player Highlights

Kristian Clarke to Arshdeep Singh, 2 runs, top edge as Arshdeep swings wildly at it. Short delivery on the leg stump, Arshdeep backs away to have a go, clears short fine leg with the mishit

Kristian Clarke to Axar, out Caught by Mitchell!! Axar sucked into the lofted drive early and Mitchell moves to the right close to the long-off fence and completes a simple catch. Slower full ball, Axar thought he could have a six over long-off, kind of checked his shot and holed out. SKY in the background was expecting it to clear the fielder. Axar c Mitchell b Kristian Clarke 5(5)

Kristian Clarke to Rinku Singh, 1 run, worked away to deep square leg

Kristian Clarke to Rinku Singh, FOUR, now he tries to hide it wide of off but it's a half volley that Rinku could reach, sliced it past point and the man in the deep can't cut it off

Kristian Clarke to Rinku Singh, SIX, hit me ball! What Rinku is doing so well is waiting for those really loose balls and putting them away. Short slow and on the leg stump, and he did that with fine leg up. Easy shot for Rinku, who swivelled and helped it away over long leg

Kristian Clarke to Axar, 1 run, slower delivery outside off stump, Axar taps it to point

Kristian Clarke to Hardik Pandya, 1 run, shortish delivery on the stumps, Hardik pulls to deep mid-wicket

Kristian Clarke to Hardik Pandya, no run, slower delivery on the leg stump, Hardik knocks it to short fine leg

Kristian Clarke to Shivam Dube, 1 run, shortish delivery slower delivery on the stumps, Dube pulls to mid-wicket

Kristian Clarke to Shivam Dube, 2 runs, uppish but safe! Throw is at the striker's end and they made Dube run hard for the second run! Full delivery just outside off stump, Dube lofted that without control and luckily hit it to the left of the fielder inside the ring

Kristian Clarke to Hardik Pandya, 1 run, full delivery outside off stump, Hardik drives down the ground, Kristian Clarke gets a hand on it and deflects to long-on

Kristian Clarke to Hardik Pandya, no run, advances but Kristian Clarke follows the batter and forces a defensive push to the right of the bowler

Kristian Clarke to Abhishek Sharma, no run, shortish slower delivery, Abhishek pulls and misses. Inside the new wide guideline so not given

Kristian Clarke to Suryakumar Yadav, 1 run, worked away to deep square leg

Kristian Clarke to Suryakumar Yadav, SIX, ohhh, SKY gets a maximum with his favourite pick-up shot of his. This is the same shot that troubled him recently. His average till Oct 2024 with that shot was 53.00, SR nearly 250 and it dipped to an average of 6.14 since then. Is this the change of fortune he needed? Short of a length delivery on the leg stump, SKY backs himself and sends it soaring over long leg. Hit a pretty good in the nets in the build up to the game and he's started well here

Kristian Clarke to Abhishek Sharma, 1 run, Abhishek runs at the bowler again, but Kristian Clarke drops it short to force a dab to the off-side

Kristian Clarke to Abhishek Sharma, SIX, that is a monster over cover! To step out, to also make room at the same time and to middle the inside out lofted drive for six is some skill. The bowler showed intentions of bowling slower balls but he didn't bother. Pounced at him and won that mini contest

Kristian Clarke to Abhishek Sharma, no run, pace off quite often now! Short of a length delivery angling away, Abhishek swung and missed

Kristian Clarke to Suryakumar Yadav, no run, slower delivery, keeps a little low, SKY manages to knock it to mid-on

Kristian Clarke to Suryakumar Yadav, FOUR, leans into the drive. Literally jumped into the drive with a last second hop from the crease. To the right of cover, Santner tries to hunt it down from mid-off. He gives a committed chase and dives, but the ball beats him to the fence

Kristian Clarke to Suryakumar Yadav, no run, oh this one nips back in and keeps a shade low to threaten LBW/bowled. SKY did well to get his bat down in time to save his wicket. Did keep quite low

Kristian Clarke to Suryakumar Yadav, no run, oh past the outside edge! Short of a length delivery nipping away, SKY moves across and looks to push, ball nips away to beat the bat

Kristian Clarke to Abhishek Sharma, 1 run, knocked around to deep square leg

Kristian Clarke to Abhishek Sharma, 2 runs, full delivery outside off stump, Abhishek advances and lofts. They have deep point so he's able to cut it off to the left