Unshackled India turn 225 into simple target practice
Kolkata, Oct. 23 -- For India, New Zealand chose to reserve their best. Glenn Phillips turned it on with an unbeaten 40-ball 82, Finn Allen carved 45 off 24 balls, before Bevon Jacobs left India high and dry with 31 off 16. But evidently, even 225 wasn't enough as India orchestrated a fascinating chase in the first T20I at Christchurch to ride into the record books.
Primarily because Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma responded by treating this target as an invitation to attack. So spectacular was their unshackled batting that even a middle-order collapse could not derail a chase completed with two balls to spare.
The previous highest successful T20I chase by India was 209/3, against New Zealand in Raipur this year. That mark was surpassed wi...
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