IND vs NZ 2nd T20 Match Prediction

IND vs NZ Team Previews

India

India had a game to forget and will want to move on quickly from the first T20. As Hardik Pandya said, only Washington Sundar put up a fight with two wickets and a fighting fifty late in the inning. WHile assessing that match, you should take into consideration that India had the worse of the conditions. It won the toss and chose to bowl, a decision that backfired. 

Still, there are questions to answer. 

Shubman Gill has not had a great start to this T20 career and Ishan Kishan is still looking for a way to make his mark as well. Rahul Tripathi has had one inning where he made an impact but he is also not yet the finished product. This means that the batting depends very much on Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya. 

SKY looked in prime touch and Hardik also scored runs in the ODI series so that will be the core of the Indian batting. Deepak Hooda and Washington Sundar add depth to the lineup while providing two bowling options as well. 

The bowling lineup could probably use a shakeup. Arshdeep Singh has been poor for a while now and may be dropped for this match. Mukesh Singh is the obvious replacement in the squad. Umran Malik and Shivam Mavi went for runs and are not the most reliable. They do have a good habit of picking up wickets, though. 

Kuldeep Yadav was quite good as was Washington Sundar but the conditions were completely in their favor. 

India's T20 team is still developing and they are up against a strong New Zealand team. They will need to get their plans and execution just right to equalize the series. 

New Zealand

New Zealand played the perfect match for the conditions they were in. Finn Allen made the most of the new ball, Devon Conway batted deep, and Daryll Mitchell provided the power late in the inning. Afterward, Mitchell Santner showed just why he is one of the best spinners in the T20 format right now by literally keeping the ball on a string. 

New Zealand took the opportunities that came in front of it and eventually won comfortably. 

Now that the odds have equalized, though, it is not as good a deal as it was in the previous match. New Zealand's batting is good but apart from Conway, no one else really managed to get in. Mitchell was also fortunate to come across a wayward Arshdeep Singh in the last over. 

If Conway falls early, the rest of the batting lineup could struggle. Similarly, the bowlers were very effective in conditions that helped them massively. If there is not so much spin on offer, we think Sodhi and Bracewell will struggle to get their overs in. 

Santner and Duffy bowled brilliantly and Ferguson is an absolute gun in the T20 format. This will be where New Zealand poses the biggest challenge.