NEW DELHI: Suryakumar Yadav (26 not out) and Hardik Pandya (15 not out) have to make use of all their skilled to assist India edged New Zealand by six wickets in a last-over thriller on the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow on Sunday. The duo held their nerves within the low-scoring thriller as India levelled the three-match sequence 1-1 with a scrappy victory within the second Twenty20 International.
Chasing a small goal of 100, India have been left to attain six off the final over to win the sport, which turned to a few off two balls. Suryakumar then slapped the penultimate ball over mid-off fielder to attain his solely boundary of the run chase and took the hosts house with a ball to spare.
As it happened: India vs New Zealand, 2nd T20I
It was uncharacteristic knocks from each Suryakumar (26* off 31 balls) and Hardik (15* off 20) as they stitched a match-winning 31 runs stand for the fifth wicke. Both hit only a 4 every of their innings.
It seemed sport over for the guests on the break, when the Indian bowlers restricted them for a meagre 99 for 8 in 20 overs, their lowest ever whole in opposition to the hosts in T20Is. But the Kiwis spinners took the sport until the ultimate over with some tight bowling, very like what India spinners did within the first innings.
Indian spinners revelled on a turning observe. The trio of Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar and Kuldeep Yadav impressed on a serving to floor to restrict a self-destructing New Zealand to 99 for eight.

It ought to have been a straight-forward run chase however the top-order comprising Ishan Kishan (19 off 32), Shubman Gill (11 off 9) and Rahul Tripathi (13 off 18) had a tricky time once more in spin-friendly circumstances. In the tip, Hardik and Suryakumar took the workforce over the road.
With the likes of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli not enjoying T20s because the World Cup final yr, alternatives have been offered to the youthful gamers who’re but to make them rely.
Kishan has gone off the boil since his double hundred in Bangladesh whereas Gill has not been in a position to keep on his scintillating ODI type into T20s. The trendy right-hander fell whereas attempting to tug a spinner for the second sport in a row however was shocked by the quantity of flip.
Tripathi, who’s attending to play at quantity three in Kohli’s absence, was unable to take the assault to the New Zealand spinners.

The Indians felt the strain and that was evident with the run out of Washington Sundar, who sacrificed his wicket to make sure Surya’s keep within the center.
Since the asking charge was by no means a problem, India may afford to stutter within the chase.
A 4 after 45 balls, coming from Hardik’s bat within the nineteenth over, launched loads of strain earlier than the skipper accomplished the job alongside Surya who hit the successful 4.
Earlier, Hardik determined to make use of spinners from each ends within the powerplay after opening the bowling himself.
Wrist spinners Kuldeep (1/17) and Chahal (1/4), enjoying in a T20 collectively after some time, extracted so much out of the Lucknow floor whereas finger spinner Washington (1/17) produced one other tidy spell.
Chahal was left licking his lips after the primary ball of his opening spell. It was a ripper that pitched on leg stump earlier than beating the surface fringe of Finn Allen’s bat. The opener perished two balls later attempting to reverse sweep with the ball thudding into his again leg earlier than crashing on to the stumps.
The in-form Devon Conway too fell to a reverse sweep because the ball kissed his gloves on method to wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan.
New Zealand have been quickly diminished to 35 for 3 in seventh over when the harmful Glenn Phillips missed a straight ball from Deepak Hooda in his try to reverse sweep the half time off-spinner.
Daryl Mitchell acquired a magnificence from Kuldeep that got here again in sharply to shatter the stumps.
New Zealand bat deep however none of their batters have been in a position to apply themselves on a testing pitch.
Pacer Arshdeep Singh, who has been responsible of bowling too many no balls these days and Shivam Mavi, have been solely used within the dying overs.
Arshdeep did nicely to take wickets in his two robust overs and conceded solely eight runs. Hardik ended with figures of 1 for 25 in 4 overs.
The sequence decider will probably be performed in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
(With inputs from PTI)