IND vs NZ 5th T20I Live Score: Arshdeep Dismisses Siefert For 5 Runs

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: Finn Allen smashed 57 runs off 25 deliveries. 

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: Bumrah allows 8 runs out of his first over. 

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: New Zealand get 10 runs from Hardik Pandya's over. 

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: Arshdeep Singh conceded 23 runs in his second over of the night. 

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: Hardik Pandya allows just six runs in his first over of the night. 

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: After conceding 17 runs, Arshdeep Singh gets Seifert's wicket. Up next, Hardik Pandya.

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: Ishan Kishan's blistering century and powerful knocks from Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya power India to set a target of 272 runs in the 5th T20I against New Zealand. 

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: The last over saw Hardik Pandya departing for 42 runs, along with a no-ball in the last delivery of the first innings. Shivam Dube finished the innings with a six, setting a target of 272 runs for New Zealand. 

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: Rinku Singh and Hardik Pandya both get boundaries in this over. 

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: With a six on the last ball of Santer's over, Ishan Kishan gets his maiden T20I century. However, in the next over, Kishan is dismissed for 103 off 42 deliveries. Rinku Singh is up next for India. 

India vs New Zealand, 5th T20 LIVE Score: Ishan Kishan survived a scare when Glen Phillips came close to catching his shot. However, Phillips missed, and the ball went for six. 

Suryakumar Yadav comes out of this crease and aims for a big one. The ball spins away from him and Tim Seifert dislodges the stumps just in time.

Suryakumar Yadav hits his 3rd fifty of this series.

Ish Sodhi has conceded 29 runs in one over, courtesy of Ishan Kishan.

Ishan Kishan has brought up another T20I hundred and has lived up to the occasion so far.

Both Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav have looked very confident from the start and have started rebuilding from scratch.

Suryakumar Yadava and Ishan Kishan are rotating the strikes and utilising the gaps very well.

Abhishek Sharma tries to loft it over the cover, but Lockie Ferguson's pace beats him and crashes into his wicket.

Sanju Samson goes for a driver, but his backfoot doesn't really help him this time. As a result, he mistimes his shot and Bevon Jacobs has an easy catch at deep third.

Abhishek Sharma has been on a six hitting spree.

Abhishek Sharma is doing what he does best. The southpaw has struck two boundaries and one huge six in the very first over.

All eyes will be on Sanju Samson

"There’s a bit more wind around tonight, so conditions could behave slightly differently from the last game. Bowling first has been a strong area for us in this series, and we’re happy to take on that challenge again. We’ve made four changes: Finn comes in for Conway, Jacobs replaces Chapman, KJ returns, and Lockie comes in for Matt Henry. A couple of these moves are precautionary, with minor niggles we’re keen to manage carefully. Matt Henry’s workload is being monitored, so rotation is important with bigger games coming up. Having Finn and Lockie back adds quality, and this match is another step in building toward the business end."

"We’ve decided to bat first as there was heavy dew last night, and we want to put our bowlers under a proper test.
The curator feels the pitch will stay true across the full forty overs, even without much grass on it. Axar, Ishan, and Varun return to the XI, and it’s great to have Sanju Samson playing here in Trivandrum. Tilak is very close; he’s taking his time through practice games, and once he’s back, we’ll be a stronger unit. This series has pushed us in different conditions and situations, which is exactly what we want at this stage. Each game has offered a new lesson, and the focus has been on carrying those learnings forward."

India have won 32 out of the 38 matchges since the T20 World Cup 2024 and have breached the 200 run mark 12 times.

India have won all the matches when they bat first with Suryakumar Yadav as captain.

Tim Seifert(w), Finn Allen, Rachin Ravindra, Glenn Phillips, Daryl Mitchell, Bevon Jacobs, Mitchell Santner(c), Kyle Jamieson, Ish Sodhi, Lockie Ferguson, Jacob Duffy.

Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson(w), Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Rinku Singh, Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah

India have won the toss and will bat first in Thiruvananthapuram.

Toss will take place at 6:30 PM IST.

Batting coach Sitanshu Kotak: “Sanju is the senior player; he is very good. He might not have scored as many runs as everybody would like, but that is part of a cricketing career. Sometimes you have five innings in a row where you score so many runs, and sometimes you have a little dry period.”

The Men In Blue paired Kuldeep Yadav with Ravi Bishnoi in the last two games and rested Varun Chakravarthy. But the no. 1 T20I spinner might return to the team to have some much-needed bowling practice.

This will be Suryakumar Yadav's last opportunity to test all the possible combinations before they face the USA at Wankhede Stadium on February 7.

India will host New Zealand in the 5th T20I match in Trivandrum. The Kiwis reduced the deficit with a win in the last T20I in Vizag.