Toss India chose to bat vs New Zealand
Both teams rang in the changes. India brought back Ishan Kishan – who missed the fourth T20I with a niggle – Axar Patel and Varun Chakravarthy, and left out Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi. This – other than the absence of Tilak Varma, who is expected to return from injury in time for the World Cup warm-ups – is more or less India’s first-choice T20I XI.
Devon Conway, Mark Chapman, Zak Foulkes and Matt Henry are out, with Henry – who is nursing a niggle – out for “precautionary” reasons according to captain Mitchell Santner.
India: 1 Abhishek Sharma, 2 Sanju Samson (wk), 3 Ishan Kishan, 4 Suryakumar Yadav (capt), 5 Rinku Singh, 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Shivam Dube, 8 Axar Patel, 9 Arshdeep Singh, 10 Varun Chakravarthy, 11 Jasprit Bumrah
New Zealand: 1 Tim Seifert (wk), 2 Finn Allen, 3 Rachin Ravindra, 4 Glenn Phillips, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Bevon Jacobs, 7 Mitchell Santner (capt), 8 Kyle Jamieson, 9 Ish Sodhi, 10 Lockie Ferguson, 11 Jacob Duffy
