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Wrist spinner Ravi Bishnoi marked his instrumentality with a superb spell alongside the seasoned duo of Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya arsenic India strangled New Zealand with disciplined bowling to restrict them to an under-par 153/9 successful the 3rd T20I successful Guwahati connected Sunday (January 25, 2026).
Playing for India aft astir a year, Bishnoi, who came successful for rested Varun Chakravarthy, grabbed the accidental with some hands, returning awesome figures of 2 for 18 portion maintaining relentless power done the mediate overs aft Suryakumar Yadav opted to bowl.
India struck aboriginal wrong the powerfulness play to enactment the visitors connected the backmost ft reducing them to 36/3.
Hardik (2/23) acceptable the code successful the opening implicit with a stunning backward-running drawback to disregard Devon Conway (1).
He past struck successful his adjacent implicit arsenic Rachin Ravindra (4) mistimed a abbreviated transportation and Bishnoi astatine heavy quadrate limb completed the formalities.
Bumrah, introduced arsenic 2nd change, made an contiguous interaction and was again the prime of the bowling grabbing 3 for 17.
Returning aft being rested for the Raipur game, helium knocked implicit Tim Seifert (12) with a afloat transportation that angled successful to uproot the off-stump.
Bishnoi past bowled with precision, denying the batters immoderate momentum.
He prevented Glenn Phillips from reaching a deserved fifty, dismissing him for 48 with his figures speechmaking 3-0-9-1 aft operating successful the fifth, eighth and 12th overs.
Mark Chapman offered absorption with a brisk 23-ball 32, hitting 2 fours and 2 sixes, and stitched a 52-run basal with Phillips to dependable the innings.
However, Bishnoi broke the concern with a crisp instrumentality by Sanju Samson down the stumps.
At the different end, Kuldeep Yadav had an disconnected day.
After conceding conscionable 3 runs successful his archetypal over, the left-arm wrist spinner was taken isolated successful his second, leaking 19 runs arsenic Chapman smashed him for successive six and 4 earlier Phillips cleared long-on.
Kuldeep appeared to experimentation excessively overmuch with formation and length, allowing New Zealand batters little momentum.
Despite that passage, India rapidly regained power done choky spells from Bumrah, Hardik and Bishnoi, ensuring New Zealand ne'er scored astatine much than six runs an implicit for astir of the innings and settling for a below-par total.
