By Admin 
New Zealand defeated India by 50 runs in the fourth T20. In this match played in Visakhapatnam, the visiting team batted first and made a big score of 215 runs. In reply, India had a very bad start, Abhishek Sharma was out on the very first ball of the Indian innings. Captain Suryakumar Yadav also returned to the pavilion in the very next over. After 5 wickets fell at 82 runs, Shivam Dubey raised hopes of victory by playing an explosive innings, but in the end New Zealand won the match.
India’s top order flop
India had a very bad start while chasing the target of 216 runs. Abhishek, who scored a half-century in 14 balls in the last match, became a ‘golden duck’ in this match. He has also become the first Indian to score a ‘golden duck’ twice in a T20 International series. Captain Suryakumar Yadav, who came after this, became the victim of Jacob Duffy on the score of 8. Sanju Samson hit some good shots, but his innings also ended on the score of 24. Mitchell Santner bowled him, he scored 24 runs in 15 balls.
Shivam Dubey had raised hopes of victory
All-rounder Hardik Pandya did not get many opportunities to impress with the bat in this series, this opportunity came in the fourth T20 but he was caught out by Mitchell Santner after scoring 2 runs. After this Rinku Singh was also out. Rinku scored 39 runs in 30 balls with the help of 2 sixes and 3 fours. This was India’s fifth wicket, which fell at the score of 82. Then it seemed that India would easily lose this match, but Shivam Dubey’s explosive innings had raised hopes of victory for India.
Shivam Dubey played a brilliant inning of 65 runs at a strike rate of 282.61. In this innings played in 23 balls, he hit 7 sixes and 3 fours. But he was run out in the 16th over. At this time India’s score was 145 runs. After this, India lost wickets continuously and the entire team was reduced to 165 runs.