T20 World Cup 2021: Kiwi challenge again for Virat Kohli and Co.

A clash in India and New Zealand doesn’t sound as loud to cricket fans as the India-Pakistan or India-Australia clashes. But kiwis have faced India at the World Cup in the last five decades.

It will be a challenge for Virat Kohli and Co. to overcome the Black Caps on Sunday, open their account and avoid diverting the ICC T20 World Cup campaign.

Since the 1975 men’s World Cup debut, India have managed to beat New Zealand only three times in eight games, with their last victory being in 2003. Since then the two teams have met for the only time, in the 2019 World Cup semi-final, Kane. Williamson pacers cunning soil batterers in India.

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As for the T20 World Cup – in the first World Twenty20, only two teams have come together. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s men failed at the inaugural edition in South Africa for the first time and repeated the same result in the last edition in 2016 on home soil.

New Zealand has a habit of optimizing its potential at the World Cup. Despite losing in Pakistan, the kiwi will continue to be a threat to India.

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India is doing its part to improve the team bond because the players were busy in the Indian Premier League franchises before the ICC show. After training only once at the ICC Academy in Pakistan on Sunday, the cricketers played beach volleyball on Friday at their elegant resort.

But rather than merge the balls, India hopes to get its combination right and shoot the unit in every cylinder. It remains to be seen in the T20 World Cup match where Kohli’s knights came out of Pakistan and got their first win against New Zealand.