After thrashing Black Caps by 3-0 in three match ODI series at home grounds, Men In Blue are all set to take on New Zealand in the three match T20 series now. In the absence of senior players like Virat Kohli, KL Rahul and regular captain Rohit Sharma, Hardik Pandya will lead the Indian cricket team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michell Santner will captain the New Zealand as Kane Williamson is not the part of India tour of New Zealand. India captain Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided to bowl first in the 1st T20I. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hardik also made clear that India’s bench strength is strong as well as the physical fitness of its players. When asked over playing XI, Hardik Pandya said that as the rule says only to pick 11, hence Jitesh Sharma, Mukesh Kumar and Yuzi Chahal have not been picked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
IND vs NZ 1st T20I Playing XI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Team<\/strong> India Playing XI \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan, Rahul Tripathi, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Deepak Hooda, Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Umran Malik, Arshdeep Singh and Shivam Mavi<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first match is being played at Ranchi’s JSCA International Stadium Complex. MS Dhoni, who hails from Ranchi was seen this morning interacting with Team India. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Team<\/strong> New Zealand Playing XI:<\/strong> Finn Allen, Devon Conway(w), Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner(c), Michael Bracewell, Jacob Duffy, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson and Blair Tickner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n IND vs NZ T20 Schedule, Venue and Time<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st T20: January 27, at JSCA International Stadium Complex, Ranchi from 7:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd T20: January 29, at Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow from 7:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3rd T20: 1st February, at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad from 7:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n IND vs NZ T20 Squads<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Team India:<\/strong> Hardik Pandya (Captain),Shubman Gill, Deepak Hooda, Rahul Tripathi, Suryakumar Yadav (Vice Captain), Ishan Kishan (wk), and Ruturaj Gaikwad, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Washington Sundar, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Umran Malik, Shivam Mavi, Prithvi Shaw and Mukesh Kumar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Team New Zealand: <\/strong>Mitchell Santner (Captain), Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, and Dane Cleaver (wk), Devon Conway (wk), Jacob Duffy, Lockie Ferguson, Ben Lister, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Michael Rippon, Henry Shipley, Ish Sodhi, and Blair Tickner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When asked over playing XI, Hardik Pandya said that as the rule says only to pick 11, hence Jitesh Sharma, Mukesh Kumar and Yuzi Chahal have not been picked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":439015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#INDvsNZ : #HardikPandya wins toss, chooses to bowl first in #1stT20I , picks #KuldeepYadav over #YuziChahal\n\n#SuryakumarYadav #MSDhoni #TeamIndia #Santner #Trending ","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525,6],"tags":[30253,88357],"yst_prominent_words":[16066,15424,87301],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/01\/27184731\/Capture-45.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438961"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=438961"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=438961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}