India vs New Zealand 1st T20I at Christchurch, Live Scores , Live Streaming

The 1st Twenty20 International between India and New Zealand will begin in Christchurch from Wednesday , Feb 25, 2009 , Match scheduled to begin at 19:00 local time (06:00 GMT),

Hours of play: 19.00 start, First Session 19.00-20.20, Interval 20.20-20.40, Second Session 20.40-22.00 This is India’s first Twenty20 in New Zealand. New Zealand won the only Twenty20 encounter against India , in Johannesburg at the ICC World Twenty20. India have a 7-2 win-loss record in Twenty20 internationals.

Pitch & Conditions Christchurch is one of the bigger grounds in New Zealand with a capacity of 36,500. For tomorrow a  few showers are predicted during the day but it is most likely to clear up by the time the two teams walk out to the middle in the evening

Quotes “

“Sehwag creates a momentum at the top of the order and is such an aggressive player that he can take the game away quite quickly. A lot of our emphasis is on him and probably Gambhir”. Daniel Vettori on his plans to curb his Delhi Daredevils teammates.

India Squad MS Dhoni, G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, RA Jadeja, KD Karthik, Z Khan, P Kumar, PP Ojha, MM Patel, IK Pathan, YK Pathan, SK Raina, V Sehwag, I Sharma, RG Sharma, Yuvraj Singh

New Zealand squad DL Vettori, NT Broom, IG Butler, GD Elliott, MJ Guptill, BB McCullum, NL McCullum, IE O’Brien, JDP Oram, JD Ryder, TG Southee, LRPL Taylor, EP Thompson