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Watch: Tim Southee takes a hattrick in the 20th over of the innings in the 1st T20I against India

Amidst all the carnage, New Zealand had their moment in the sun as Tim Southee picked up a hattrick in the last over.

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Tim Southee (Source: Twitter)

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India and New Zealand squared off against each other at Mount Maunganui for the second T20 after the first game was washed out. New Zealand won the toss and opted to bowl first. India got off to a good start as Ishaan Kishan got a quickfire cameo of 36 off 31 balls, with five fours and 1 six after Rishabh Pant fell early.

Then, Suryakumar Yadav came in at number three and took centre stage at Mount Maunganui. He blazed away and played shots all around the ground. He literally toyed with the bowling en route to his splendid innings of 111 off just 51 balls.

The scintillating knock contained 11 fours and 7 sixes. This knock allowed India to get to a total of 191-6 in their 20 overs. Amidst all the carnage, New Zealand had their moment in the sun as Tim Southee picked up a hattrick in the last over. Hardik Pandya, Deepak Hooda and Washington Sundar were his three victims.

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India had lost the semi-final in the 20-20 World Cup by 10 wickets

Southee conceded just five runs in the last over and also kept Suryakumar Yadav off the strike. Suryakumar Yadav was in superb form as he smashed 54 off his last 16 balls. He took the game deep and made sure that he was there for India at the end. He has been India’s best batter after Virat Kohli in the 20-20 World Cup scoring 239 runs from 6 innings. He also has got to 1000 runs in T20 cricket.

Speaking of the Indian Team, they had a very good 20-20 World Cup campaign, where they registered four wins from five games in the Super12 stages. They got the most number of wins in the Super 12 stages. But they did not have a good end to the 20-20 World Cup campaign as they crashed out in the semi-final.

India, on the day of the semi-final at Adelaide, was kept down to just 168-6 in their first innings. Then in the second innings, India was blown away by a record 170-run opening stand by Jos Buttler and Alex Hales. India failed to break the jinx of reaching a semi-final in yet another World event. 

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