Auckland: New Zealand captain Kane Williamson won the toss and decided to bat first in the second Twenty 20 International (T20I) of five-match series here at the Eden Park on Sunday. Both teams have deployed the same XI that played the first T20I.
India are currently leading the five-match T20I series 1-0 as they defeated New Zealand by six wickets in the first match at the same ground. Chasing down a mammoth 204-run target India also notched up their highest ever successful chase on foreign soil.
Virat Kohli: Same thing, happy days (On both teams getting to do what they wanted). We wanted to field first. We did well with the ball too in the last game. It suits better when we bowl first. We were happy with the performance, I don't think there was any jet lag. We are going in with the same team. We want to do better in the field. We can stop extra 10 runs.
Kane Williamson: We are gonna have a bat. Obviously, it's an used surface and there won't be dew much. We wanna use the surface bat. It's important that we execute our plans and put up a strong performance. We are playing the same team.
Pitch Report: "Once again, we have got another beauty. It's the same pitch that we had two days go. There just be a little more turn for the spinners than the first game. Grass cover is very good and it is expected to play very very good again. There will be plenty of runs on offer," Mike Hesson and Sunil Gavaskar observed.
Playing XI
India: Rohit Sharma, Lokesh Rahul(w), Virat Kohli(c), Shreyas Iyer, Shivam Dube, Manish Pandey, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah
New Zealand: Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Kane Williamson(c), Colin de Grandhomme, Ross Taylor, Tim Seifert(w), Mitchell Santner, Blair Tickner, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi, Hamish Bennett
