India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: A full toss by Sodhi and Kishan slams him to deep cover boundary for a four and gets his fifty!
Sodhi tosses it up and Kishan launches it over deep midwicket for a six, followed by a four over short third man. Ends the over with a six to long-on!
IND – 141/2 (12)
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: A full toss by Sodhi and Kishan slams him to deep cover boundary for a four and gets his fifty! Half-century for Kishan!
IND – 117/2 (11.1)
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: A quick delivery by Santner, Suryakumar hammers it down the ground for a six, followed by a single. Then Kishan takes him on! Slams him over extra cover for a four and then a six over deep square leg. Ends the over with a double.
IND – 102/2 (10)
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: A full delivery by Sodhi, and Kishan hammers it over wide long on for a six! SHOT! Then he takes a single. Sodhi responds with a dot, followed by Suryakumar taking a single. Kishan does the same, lofts it to long off and takes a single. Ends the over, with a four!
IND – 82/2 (9)
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Ferguson begins with a good length delivery, Kishan tries to hit it into the leg side, but misses and is hit on the pads. NZ don’t review their LBW appeal. Then he sends a slow delivery, and Kishan clatters him over wide mid-off for a four!
A leg-cutter and Kishan clobbers him over extra cover for a six! SHOT! Then he takes a single. Ferguson gets a dot, and then he cleans up Abhishek, bowled! Abhishek goes for another big shot, steps out, no connection, rattles the stumps!
Abhishek b Ferguson 30 (16)
IND – 48/2 (5)
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: OUT!!! Samson’s poor form continues! He flops again!
A full delivery by Ferguson, and Samson gets a thick outside edge. The ball goes behind square, Jacobs runs from deep backward point and takes a good catch!
Samson c Jacobs b Ferguson 6 (6)
IND – 31/1 (2.5)
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Jamieson begins with a dot, and then Samson edges him through the empty slip region for a four. Samson takes a single, gives Abhishek strike. A length delivery ad Abhishek hammers it past the cover fielder for a four! JAMIESON IS UNDER PRESSURE! WHAT WILL HE DO NOW?
He responds with a dot, beaten on the outside edge. Well, now Abhishek goes over long-on in the final ball for a six! SHOT! 15 from the 2nd over!
IND – 29/0 (2)
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: A good length delivery by Duffy and Abhishek is beaten on the outside edge, no run. It is followed by another dot.
Then Duffy sends a slower delivery, in the slot. Abhishek launches it over extra cover for a maximum! SHOT! Duffy responds with a dot.
Duffy sends it to Abhishek’s pads. He flicks it over the wicketkeeper and for a four, nice ramp shot! STYLISH! PURE CLASS!
He ends the over with a four to extra cover!
IND – 14/0 (1)
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Abhishek and Samson to open for India. Duffy to bowl the first over for New Zealand.
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Tim Seifert(w), Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Daryl Mitchell, Bevon Jacobs, Mitchell Santner(c), Kyle Jamieson, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Jacob Duffy
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson(w), Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Speaking after winning the toss, India captain Suryakumar said, “We are going to bat first. We were here last night, there was a lot of dew and we want to test ourselves. The groundsman says it is going to be true for 40 overs. Axar comes back, Ishan comes back and one more. Don’t worry Thiruvananthapuram, Sanju Samson is playing tonight. We are waiting for him (Tilak). We have almost covered all the departments, every game we learn something and take it forward.”
Meanwhile, NZ skipper Santner said, “It might not be too dewy tonight. We have got four changes – Allen in for Conway, Neesham is in for Chapman, KJ and Lockie are in.”
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: India captain Suryakumar wins the toss, opts to bat.
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Toss is upcoming! It is set for 6:30 PM and we will soon see Suryakumar, Santner come to the middle.
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Tilak has been sidelined after a minor surgery earlier this month. He is expected to be fit for the February 4 warm-up fixture.
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Sundar is expected to recover from his injury before the T20 World Cup, which begins on February 7. He has been injured since the first ODI vs New Zealand on January 11. He is currently undergoing rehab in Bengaluru.
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Speaking ahead of the match, NZ pacer Henry said, “T20 cricket is about confidence, how do you keep coming back and challenging batters when you’re under pressure, how do you find a way to make it work. I think that’s where you put your energy because you can’t control the outcome but if you keep turning up, you keep learning. And I think that’s probably a highlight of this series for us.”
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Abhishek was dismissed for a golden duck in the fourth T20I, and tried to go with his usual approach. He was dismissed in the first ball of the opening over. Defending his approach, batting coach Kotak said, “Abhishek is someone who plays a lot of shots, but his shots don’t seem like somebody’s slogging. It seems like he is playing more on merit of the ball.”
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Ish Sodhi is only two wickets away from becoming New Zealand’s most successful T20I bowler. Tim Southee currently leads the pack with 164 dismissals.
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Allen is expected to replace Conway in the playing XI. There is no confirmation on Bracewell yet. Allen was the leading run-scorer in the BBL.
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Despite the huge loss in the 4th T20I, India had some positives. Shivam Dube was in fine form, hammering 65 runs off 23 balls, laced with three sixes and seven fours. He could have led India to victory, but a freak run-out dismissal saw him lose his wicket.
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Suryakumar is 33 runs away from becoming the 12th player in the world with 3000 T20I runs. Can he reach that landmark tonight?
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Kishan missed the fourth T20I due to a niggle but is expected to play in the final T20I, according to batting coach Kotak. Axar, who missed the last three fixtures due to injury, is also fit and in contention.
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Devon Conway, Tim Seifert(w), Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner(c), Zakary Foulkes, Matt Henry, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy, James Neesham, Michael Bracewell, Lockie Ferguson, Bevon Jacobs, Kyle Jamieson
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson(w), Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Harshit Rana, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, Varun Chakaravarthy
India vs New Zealand 5th T20I Live Score: Hello and welcome to our live coverage of today’s fifth and final T20I in Thiruvananthapuram. India lost the previous fixture but has already clinched the series, leading 4-1. They will want to get back to winning ways as it’s also their last international outing before the T20 World Cup.