The Indian openers started well, with Rohit (56) and Ishan Kishan (29) putting on 69 before the latter fell to spinner Mitchell Santner in the seventh, followed by Suryakumar Yadav in the same over, just a couple of runs later. At 83, Rishabh Pant (4) departed to the same man in the ninth, while Rohit brought up his 26th T20I half-century before being dismissed by spinner Ish Sodhi in the 12th, 20 runs later.
A 36-run partnership ensued between Shreyas Iyer (25) and Venkatesh Iyer (20). At the same time, pacer Trent Boult got rid of the latter in the 16th, at 139. A run later, in the subsequent over, the former was dismissed by pacer Adam Milne. Axar Patel (2*) and Harshal Patel (18) contributed 22 more in the late stages before the latter was hit wicket off pacer Lockie Ferguson.
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