India Vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd T20I: Playing XI and toss coming up from Christchurch

India (IND) Vs New Zealand (NZ) Live Cricket Score, 2nd T20I: Shreyas Iyer's India will lock horns with Mitchell Santner's New Zealand in the second of the five-match T20I series; Toss coming at 12:00 PM IST

India Vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd T20I: Shreyas Iyer’s India will take on Mitchell Santner’s New Zealand in the second of the five-match T20I series at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch on Saturday. The visitors have already won the first match and lead the series 1-0

Although India won at various points with both bat and ball, they looked a bit rusty, which can be attributed to the quick turnaround from the fifth T20I in Bengaluru against West Indies. However, they played some solid cricket during that match.

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New Zealand, on the other hand, took time to get into the game, especially with the ball. Spinners Mitchell Santner and Michael Bracewell brought them into the contest with a few quick wickets, but the damage in the powerplay was too great for them to get a positive result.

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Oct 24, 2026 11:56 AM IST
India Vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd T20I: Dinesh Karthik on Bhuvneshwar Kumar's spell

“A lot of fans may be critical, but it’s his first day back in international cricket. So cut him some slack. But he has to be aware that no-balls are not a habit he wants to develop. He knows he’s better than that. But was he as good as he could be? Definitely not,” said Karthik

Oct 24, 2026 11:45 AM IST
India Vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd T20I: Dinesh Karthik on Bhuvneshwar Kumar

“It was the no-balls that did him in. He’s not somebody who generally bowls no-balls. I am not sure why, but it may have been a bit of nerves,” Karthik said on Cricbuzz.

“Two no-balls in a game is unheard of for him. So I would put it down to the fact that he’s not as ready as he would want to be. But if we look closely, his first and last overs were very good. However, the second and third overs had no-balls in it and that reflects in his analysis, as those were huge overs,” he added.

Oct 24, 2026 11:35 AM IST
India Vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd T20I: Aakash Chopra on ESPNcricinfo.

“It was the turning point, because it seemed that the match might change. Maybe Mitchell Santner could have taken New Zealand to victory. But Naman Dhir had completely different intentions,” Former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra said on ESPNcricinfo.

Oct 24, 2026 11:25 AM IST
India Vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd T20I: Glenn Phillips ahead of game

“The guys at the IPL last year probably got sick of me spending an hour batting and then 45 minutes batting left-handed as well,” New Zealand’s Glenn Phillips

Oct 24, 2026 11:14 AM IST
India Vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd T20I: Sitanshu Kotak ahead of game

“At the start, I felt there was a lot of hype that he (Vaibhav Sooryavanshi) should play. I genuinely felt that such hype is not good for a player as well, for a young 15/16-year-old boy, that everyone is saying that he should play, and he is not getting a place”

Oct 24, 2026 11:08 AM IST
India Vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd T20I: NZ predicted XI

Tim Seifert (wk), Finn Allen, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Bevon Jacobs, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (c), Nathan Smith, Adam Milne, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson

Oct 24, 2026 10:55 AM IST
India Vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd T20I: IND predicted XI

Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi/Shivam Dube, Shreyas Iyer (C), Tilak Varma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Naman Dhir, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Mayank Yadav

Oct 24, 2026 10:48 AM IST
India Vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd T20I: Hola!

Hello and welcome to our live blog of India taking on New Zealand in the second T20I. It was a cracking first game, and it kind of gave a glimpse of what the series can have in it. Anyway, here for the second game at the same venue and it will be another high-scoring for sure but will be it a nail-bitter we shall see. Do stay tuned this Saturday afternoon with us; we are going to live updates and plug in our cracking pieces.

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