Daryl Mitchell top-scored with 49 as New Zealand hammered India by eight wickets to register their first win of the Super 12 stage at the T...
Daryl Mitchell top-scored with 49 as New Zealand hammered India by eight wickets to register their first win of the Super 12 stage at the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday.
Pace bowler Trent Boult and leg-spinner Ish Sodhi shared five wickets between them to restrict India to 110 for seven after the Kiwis decided to bowl first in Dubai.
Mitchell and skipper Kane Williamson, 33 not out, put on 72 runs for the second wicket as New Zealand romped home in 14.3 overs and hand India their second loss of the tournament in as many games.
India’s batting performance left a lot to be desired and gave the bowlers very little chance of reviving the situation.
Bumrah said tat the batsmen tried to provide some cushion of the bowlers with some extra runs but it didn’t quite work out.
Here’s the full text of his post-match press conference:
Q. How do you explain your batting display? Conditions were obviously challenging. How do you eventually explain such a batting experience?
JASPRIT BUMRAH: I think as a batting unit what we were trying to do is that we know in the second innings dew does play a massive factor. We tried to give us some cushion.
We wanted to get extra runs that could give us...
