India, Oct. 29 -- Tilak Varma played a brilliant innings of 51 not out off 26 balls in the second T20I at Christchurch and helped India chase down 181 last week against hosts New Zealand. When Varma came in, India were reeling at 69/4. At that stage, the match appeared to be a foregone conclusion but then the batter got up good stands with all-rounders Naman Dhir and Nitish Kumar Reddy to turn the tables on the opposition.

In the first game, Varma had batted at No.3 but an injury to Ishan Kishan changed the batting order for the second game. Teenage star Vaibhav Sooryavanshi batted at No.3 and Varma was sent down the order to No.6. The 23-year-old, who batted at No.3 in the early part of his career, explained how his batting had evolved ...