LIVE IND vs NZ 1st T20I Live Cricket Score And Updates: New Zealand on Top as India Lose Samson And Kishan Cheaply

LIVE CRICKET SCORE – IND vs NZ 1st T20I NAGPUR

IND vs NZ 1st T20I Match Live Cricket Score and Updates from Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur: The five-match T20I series between India and New Zealand will serve as a final dress rehearsal before the much-awaited T20 World Cup 2026. After a shocking defeat in the ODI series, the hosts would leave no stone unturned under the captaincy of Suryakumar Yadav to live up to their no.1 tag in the shorter format.

Meanwhile, the India captain is undergoing a lean patch with the bat. In his last 19 innings, SKY scored 218 runs at a poor average of 13.62 and a strike rate of 123.16.   

But his returns as a skipper tell a totally different story. Since Surya took over the mantle as India’s T20 skipper in 2024, Team India’s winning percentage shot up to 72 per cent. The Indian T20 outfit has been on autopilot mode during the last two years with an odd defeat here and there being small blemishes.

India vs New Zealand 1st T20I Live Cricket Score & Updates

Date: 21 January, 2026, Wednesday.
Time: 7:00 PM IST.
Venue: Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur.

IND vs NZ T20I SQUADS

India: Sanju Samson (wk), Abhishek Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav (C), Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Ishan Kishan, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Varun Chakaravarthy, Arshdeep Singh. 

New Zealand: Tim Robinson, Devon Conway (wk), Rachin Ravindra, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner (C), Kyle Jamieson, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy, Matt Henry, Bevon Jacobs, Kristian Clarke, Zakary Foulkes.