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

Axar to Mitchell, FOUR, Mitchell has smashed this. Axar is walking off. The physio is out there and off goes Axar. A half-volley on the stumps, Mitchell makes room and lofts so hard, Axar sticks an outstretched left hand, the ball hits the end of the hand and flies away, such timing that it goes away wide of long-off

Axar to Mitchell, 2 runs, doesn't carry to deep mid-wicket. Abhishek ran in and dives forward, doesn't carry. It's slower and outside the leg-stump, Mitchell is not to the pitch of the ball as he backs away, heaves and it's horribly miscued

Axar to Santner, 1 run, on a length outside the leg-stump, Santner gets forward to drive to long-on

Axar to Chapman, FOUR, nicely done. Full and outside the leg-stump, Chapman gets forward and whips that so hard, beats deep mid-wicket to his right. That again raced off the bat

Axar to Chapman, no run, flat back of a length outside off, Chapman goes on the back foot and cuts it hard and straight to extra-cover

Axar to Mitchell, 1 run, tossed up full outside off, Mitchell gets low and paddles, bit of glove and a bit of bat and rolls to short fine

Axar to Phillips, out Caught by Shivam Dube!! End of the fun from Phillips. India will be happy to see Phillips go. A flat good length delivery on middle, Phillips goes on the back foot and pulls, Dube is already down but he manages to hang on at long-on. He batted so well and falls in trying to manufacture something when the ball was not there. Axar fist-pumps. Phillips c Shivam Dube b Axar 78(40) [4s-4 6s-6]

Axar to Phillips, SIX, tossed up full outside off, Phillips gets forward and lofts over deep extra-cover, clean hit and the fielder watches it sail over. Superb batting

Axar to Phillips, FOUR, good length outside off, Phillips goes on the back foot and cuts, wide of extra-cover, races away and beats Ishan running to his left at long-off

Axar to Chapman, 1 run, short and down leg, Chapman goes on the back foot and pulls straight to the fielder at deep backward square-leg

Axar to Phillips, 1 run, short of length on off, Phillips goes on the back foot and punches it down to long-on

Axar to Chapman, 1 run, quicker good length on middle, Chapman goes on the back foot and flicks to deep mid-wicket

Axar to Chapman, FOUR, superb batting. Chapman comes down the track and is not to the pitch of the ball, this is dragged down, but he shovels this over mid-wicket, fast hands and flies over the man

Axar to Chapman, wide, Samson appeals for a caught behind and the ump signals wide. Samson convinces SKY to take the review. He is totally convinced. Nothing on UltraEdge and India lose both their reviews. It's short and down leg, Chapman goes on the back foot to pull and the ball is under the glove and nothing on it. Poor review that. And Samson was so confident as well

Axar to Chapman, no run, flat good length on off, Chapman goes on the back foot to cut, mistimes it to cover

Axar to Phillips, 1 run, tossed up full on middle, Phillips gets forward to drive to long-on, more off thick inside half

Axar to Phillips, 2 runs, flatter and on the leg stump, Phillips flicks it to deep square and returns for two

Axar to Phillips, SIX, brilliant back foot pull! Axar bowls a tough angle into the right-hander, often cramping batters for room. They have to go really deep in the crease to get under the ball and hit over mid-wicket. That's exactly what Phillips did there and cleared the mid-wicket fence quite easily

Axar to Phillips, 2 runs, goes hard for a drive but drags it to deep mid-wicket off the inside edge. Rinku sprinted to the right and pushed it back with the dive

Axar to Phillips, no run, fullish delivery outside off stump, Phillips drives it back to the bowler

Axar to Tim Robinson, 1 run, quicker delivery on the leg stump, Robinson flicks to deep mid-wicket

Axar to Tim Robinson, no run, flatter delivery angling in, Robinson backs away and punches it to cover