India will square off against New Zealand in the second T20I at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur on Friday. The hosts registered a convincing 48-run win to draw first blood in the series and would want to carry the winning impetus.

The home team posted a gargantuan score of 238 runs on the board after Abhishek Sharma and Rinku Singh starred for the team. India continued with their aggressive approach despite losing wickets at regular intervals and that’s why their strategy of playing with eight batters works fine in T20Is. India also came up with a decent bowling performance.

New Zealand, on the other hand, were not up to the mark with the ball and would want to bounce back strongly.

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Shreyas Iyer needs six sixes to complete 50 maximums in T20Is.

Axar Patel needs two fours to complete 50 boundaries in T20Is.

Shivam Dube needs five fours to reach 50 boundaries in T20Is.

Rachin Ravindra needs six fours to complete 50 boundaries in T20Is.

Devon Conway needs six sixes to reach 50 maximums in T20Is.

Glenn Phillips needs three more sixes to complete 100 maximums.

New Zealand T20 squad (first three matches): Mitchell Santner (captain), Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Kristian Clarke, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Ben Lister, Daryl Mitchell, Adam Milne, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Tim Seifert, Ish Sodhi, Will Young.

India’s T20I squad: Suryakumar Yadav (C), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (WK), Shreyas Iyer (first three T20Is), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel (VC), Rinku Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Harshit Rana, Arshdeep Singh, Kuldeep Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy, Ishan Kishan (WK), Ravi Bishnoi