Abhishek Sharma played a fiery inning of 84 runs in 35 balls, smashing 5 fours and 8 sixes, and Surya Kumar Yadav scored 32 runs in 22 balls. After them, Hardik Pandya smashed some classy shots and scored 25 runs in 16 balls. Rinku Singh justified his comeback by scoring 44 runs in 20 balls for India, smashing 4 fours and 3 sixes. India made a tough total of 238 runs for 7 wickets.
For New Zealand, Jacob Duffy, Kyle Jaminson, Kris Clarke, Ish Sodhi, and Mitchell Santner took wickets against India.

In the second innings, Devon Conway and Tim Robinson opened for New Zealand, but Devon Conway lost at 0, and Tim Robinson contributed 21 runs in 15 balls, while Rachin Ravindra also lost his wicket at 1.

After this, Glenn Phillips played an important inning for New Zealand and scored 78 runs in 40 balls, smashing 4 fours and 6 sixes. Mark Chapman and Daryll Mitchell scored 39 runs in 24 balls and 28 runs in 18 balls, respectively. Mitchel Santner scored 20 runs in 13 balls, but because of the collapse in the top order, Indian bowlers stopped New Zealand at 190 runs.

For India, Shivam Dube, Varun Chakaravarthy, Axar Patel, Hardik Pandya, and Arshdeep Singh took wickets against New Zealand and helped India to win by 48 runs.

Abhishek Sharma won the player of the match award for his amazing performance, scoring 84 runs in 35 balls.

1. T20 rankings for the year 2025:

For Batsmen:

1. Abhishek Sharma

2. Phil Salt

3. Tilak Verma

For Bowlers:

1. Varun Chakravarthy

2. Jacob Duffy

3. Rashid Khan

For All-Rounders:

1. Saim Ayub

2. Sikandar Raza

3. Rostan Chase

2. ODI Rankings of the year 2025:

For Batsmen:

1. Rohit Sharma

2. Virat Kohli

3. Daryl Mitchell

For Bowlers:
1. Rashid Khan

2. Jofra Archer

3. Kuldeep Yadav

For All-Rounders:
1. Azmatullah Omarzai

2. Sikandar Raza

3. Mohammad Nabi

3. The test ranking of the year 2025:

For Batsmen:

1. Joe Root

2. Harry Brook

3. Kane Williamson

For Bowlers:

1. Jasprit Bumrah

2. Mitchell Starc

3. Noman Ali

For All-Rounders:

1. Ravindra Jadeja

2. Marco Jansen

3. Ben Stokes

NZ  141-2 (15.4)

Player of the Match – Jacob Duffy 

Player of the Series – Jacob Duffy 

New Zealand vs West Indies 5th T20I played in Duendin on November 13. New Zealand won the toss and opted to bowl first. 

Shai Hope started the innings with the West Indian flavour. Starts the over with six and ends the over with four. Jacob Duffy conceded 12 runs in the first over. From the second over, the black caps start dominating the game. Jamieson took Athanaze’s wicket. Jacob Duffy, in his second over, took revenge on Shai Hope on the first ball. Jacob ends his second over with 3 wickets of Shai Hope, Ackeem Auguste, and Rutherford. Only this over twisted the game in favour of New Zealand.

West Indies tried to recover from that over. Hit 15 runs in the last over of the power-play. West Indies scored 47 in the power play, but they lost 4 wickets. Michael Bracewell removed Powell in the 7th over. Neesham took the wicket of Roston Chase. Roston scored 38 runs. In the next over, Ish Sodhi took the wicket of Holder. West Indies were losing wickets back-to-back. Santner took the wicket of Forde. Shepherd tried to increase the scoring rate but got out after scoring 17 runs against Jacob Duffy.

Neesham took the last wicket of Jayden Seales. West Indies posted a total of 140 runs. Tim Robinson shattered the hope of the West Indies by scoring 45 runs in 24 balls. Shepherd’s ball bowled out Robinson. Shamar Springer took the wicket of Ravindra.. Chapman and Conway end the game comfortably. Chapman scored 21 runs and Conway scored 47 runs.