India vs New Zealand, LIVE Cricket Score, 4th T20I at Wellington: Kiwis look to end losing run against Men in Blue

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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the fourth T20I between India and New Zealand at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington. Despite skipper Kane Williamson’s heroic knock of 95, the Kiwis could not get past the finish line, thanks to Mohammed Shami and Rohit Sharma, who combined to pull off a thrilling win via a Super Over in the third T20I. India have taken an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. With their first T20I series win on New Zealand soil, the Men in Blue will be high on confidence but could look to experiment with the 2020 T20 World Cup in sight. 

India vs New Zealand 4th T20I Live Updates: Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the fourth T20I between India and New Zealand at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington. Despite skipper Kane Williamson’s heroic knock of 95, the Kiwis could not get past the finish line, thanks to Mohammed Shami and Rohit Sharma, who combined to pull off a thrilling win via a Super Over in the third T20I. India have taken an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. With their first T20I series win on New Zealand soil, the Men in Blue will be high on confidence but could look to experiment with the 2020 T20 World Cup in sight.

Preview: New Zealand will hope to end their losing run against India in the fourth T20I in Wellington, with only pride left to play for after surrendering the series with an unassailable 3-0 lead.

The Black Caps failed to defend a challenging score of 203/5 in the first T20I at Auckland's Eden Park, and were outplayed in the second game of the series that took place at the same venue on the Indian Republic Day, posting just 132 in 20 overs that was easily overhauled by the visitors.

The Kiwis however, fought back admirably in the third T20I in Hamilton, with Kane Williamson's 48-ball 95 nearly guiding the side home in their chase of the 180-run target. However, the last-minute brain-fade saw the match ending in a tie from a position where the home team needed two to win from four balls with six wickets in hand.

New Zealand's hoodoo as far as Super Overs are concerned continued as Rohit Sharma smacked back-to-back sixes off Tim Southee to help his team seal the series with a memorable win.

Williamson will be hoping to rally the troops and raise their morale after the heartbreaking defeat at Hamilton's Seddon Park, and try and pull things back in the remaining games. His Indian counterpart Virat Kohli, on the other hand, signalled the need to give the bench a try in the last two games and fine-tune their combinations with the ICC T20 World Cup in mind.

Kohli, however, maintained the experimentation, in no way, will interfere in their quest to complete a 5-0 hammering of the Kiwis after having already clinched their first T20I series win in New Zealand.

Here are all the details on the live coverage of the fourth game of the five-match series:

 

Squads:

India team players: Rohit Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shivam Dube, Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli(c), Ravindra Jadeja, Kuldeep Yadav, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah Navdeep Saini, Washington Sundar, Sanju Samson

New Zealand team players: Kane Williamson (capt), Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor, Scott Kuggeleijn, Colin Munro, Colin de Grandhomme, Tom Bruce, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner, Tim Seifert (wk), Hamish Bennett, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Blair Tickner.

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