By Admin 
The second T20 between India and New Zealand will be played today i.e. Friday, January 23 at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur. Team India had won by 41 runs in the first T20. In such a situation, they would like to win the second T20 also, while the Kiwi team will be eyeing an upset this time. Fans can reach the stadium in large numbers in Raipur. Team India will be seen in action here after a long time.
Raipur’s stadium has 60,000 seats. It is expected to be completely filled today. However, there is some uncertainty about the conditions here, because only one T20 International match has been played on this ground before, which was between India and Australia in 2023. Recently, an ODI match took place in December 2025, in which India scored 358 runs and South Africa chased the target. The role of toss is also going to be very important in Raipur. The winner of the toss can decide to bowl first, because chasing is considered easy here.
match prediction
Our match prediction meter is saying that Team India will win in this match also. There are many players who can cause upsets in the Kiwi team, but looking at the way the Indian players played in the first T20 match, it would not be wrong to say that the match is 75-25.
India’s probable playing eleven for the second T20- Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dubey, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel/Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh and Varun Chakraborty.
New Zealand’s probable playing eleven for the second T20- Tim Robinson, Devon Conway (wk), Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Santner (c), Christian Clarke/Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy