India, Jan. 31 -- In a show of sensational hitting, Ishan Kishan put on a spectacular six-hitting show for the Thiruvananthapuram crowd that had come to cheer their local hero Sanju Samson, but stayed on for Kishan at the Greenfield International Stadium on Saturday.

In the final dress rehearsal before the ICC T20 World Cup starts on February 8, the home team put on such a dazzling all-round show that their opponents would have been left marvelling at India's firepower, which makes them favourites to defend the title.

Apart from an entertaining century by Kishan, Abhishek Sharma (30 off 16 balls), Suryakumar Yadav (63 off 30) and Hardik Pandya (42/17) all came to the party in the fifth and final T20I against New Zealand. India powered t...