Skipper Kane Williamson stayed unbeaten on 33 after Daryl Mitchell's attacking knock to help New Zealand get home in just 14.3 overs.
111 was never going to be challenging and it just gave the freedom to the openers Martin Guptill and Daryl Mitchell, who just had to be there, run were going to come. They cashed in during the field restrictions and unless they lost 3-4 wickets early, India were never going to come back and they didn't let them.
Mitchell was severe on Indian spinners Jadeja and Varun Chakravarthy as he took them apart. Jasprit Bumrah removed Guptill but then the man made for these situations, skipper Kane Williamson, the ice walked it.
Williamson kept rotating strike, got the occasional boundary and it was only a matter of time before the Kiwis got home. Mitchell fell one short of his half-century but he had done his job and it was a walk in the park for the Blackcaps since then.
New Zealand after losing against Pakistan in their first game got their campaign back on track and now are the favorites to qualify from Group 2 unless Afghanistan has other ideas, apart from Pakistan.
For India, the permutations and combinations will come into play, all that if India win all three remaining games with big margins.
It just wasn't happening. It wasn't. Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Ishan Kishan no one was able to score calculatuvely. Either they were taking too many balls or going after the wrong delivery as India kept losing wickets so regularly, hitting straight to the fielders.
Ravindra Jadeja with a couple of boundaries helped the score to get to 110, which at one point looked nearly impossible.
Swing and a miss! India lose their fifth wicket as Rishabh Pant's innings comes to an end, bowled out by Adam Milne as he tried to play the ball over the in-field. India has not scored a boundary in 61 deliveries. Kohli and company will be hoping to reach 120 to have a fighting chance.
Trying to up the ante, Virat Kohli took on Ish Sodhi but he decided to go after the wrong delivery as it was outside off and he went for the shot towards leg side and couldn't time it well and hit straight into the hands of the long-on fielder Trent Boult as the leg-spinner took his second wicket of the evening.
Rohit Sharma after hitting a couple of boundaries couldn't resist himself hitting against a short ball bowled by the leg-spinner Ish Sodhi, who now has 18 wickets to his name against India in T20Is as now the men in bluw were reduced to 40/3 in the 7th over of the innings.
Tim Southee after getting hit for a boundary on the first ball of came back well in the final over of the powerplay to dismiss KL Rahul, who pull the short delivery from the right-arm pacer straight into the hands of deep square leg.
Trent Boult troubled his Mumbai Indians teammate Ishan Kishan in the first over trapping him in the crease and on the pads a couple of times but the left-hander got through them. In Boult's second over, he even smashed a boundary over the leg side but got too greedy after that.
A fuller ball on the pads from Boult lured Ishan to have a go at it and he did but he flicked it too well straight into the hands of Daryl Micthell at deep square leg. It could have been 'one brings two' for India had Adam Milne taken the catch on the last ball of Boult's over.
Boult bowled a shorter delivery to Rohit and he played his instinctive hook shot straight to deep fine leg's throat but Milne spilled it giving him a reprieve, which the men in blue needed badly.
Earlier, New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson won the toss and had chosen to bowl first.
Playing XIs
India: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli (c), Ishan Kishan, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakravarthy
New Zealand: Martin Guptill, Daryl Mitchell, Kane Williamson (c), Devon Conway(w), Glenn Phillips, James Neesham, Adam Milne, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Trent Boult
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