1st T20I: New Zealand hammer India by 80 runs

Wellington: An all-round effort guided New Zealand to a thumping 80-run victory over India in the first contest of the three-match Twenty20 rubber at the Westpac stadium here on Wednesday.

Chasing a mammoth 220-run target for victory, the Indian batsmen failed to show fight against a disciplined Kiwi bowling attack as the entire team was bowled out for 139 runs in 19.2 overs.

• New Zealand send India to their biggest T20I defeat!
  
  The visitors are bowled out for 139 in Wellington after Tim Seifert's 84 helped set up a crushing 80 run win for the Blackcaps!#NZviND scorecard ➡️ https://t.co/TTixTOEQaM pic.twitter.com/W8gh3ufYlg

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  New Zealand send India to their biggest T20I defeat!
  
  The visitors are bowled out for 139 in Wellington after Tim Seifert's 84 helped set up a crushing 80 run win for the Blackcaps!#NZviND scorecard ➡️ https://t.co/TTixTOEQaM pic.twitter.com/W8gh3ufYlg

  — ICC (@ICC) February 6, 2019

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  New Zealand send India to their biggest T20I defeat!
  
  The visitors are bowled out for 139 in Wellington after Tim Seifert's 84 helped set up a crushing 80 run win for the Blackcaps!#NZviND scorecard ➡️ https://t.co/TTixTOEQaM pic.twitter.com/W8gh3ufYlg

  — ICC (@ICC) February 6, 2019

Brief score: New Zealand 219/6 (Tim Seifert 84, Colin Munro 34; Hardik Pandya 2/51) beat India 139 all out (MS Dhoni 39, Shikhar Dhawan 29; Tim Southee 3/17) by 80 runs.