Sports Desk: The short format of cricket is T20. And if the match is a bone-to-bone fight, then there is no point.

The cricket world watched the 20-over match of such a jumping battle in Dunedin, Australia.

New Zealand lost the hosts by just 4 runs after a breathtaking battle packed with drama in the last over.

In the second T20 of the series in Dunedin, New Zealand batted first and knocked down the Aussie pacers, throwing a mountainous target of 220 runs.

Kiwi opener Martin Guptill was the master of such a big score. He played a tornado innings of 97 runs off 50 balls with 6 boundaries and 8 sixes.

Captain Ken Williamson made 53 off 35 balls before being bowled in the jumper spin. In the last over, all-rounder Nisham’s six-ball 45-run innings of 45 runs (not out) brought a huge collection to the Kiwis.

In all, New Zealand lost 6 wickets in 20 overs and scored 219 runs.

Australia also made a great start to chase that goal. In the match given in the flood book of such runs, fortune was swaying like a pendulum.

Australia’s pallai was heavy till 12 overs. Aussie batsmen scored 106 runs for 3 wickets.

That means 113 runs are needed from 48 balls. The way John Phillips and Marcus Steinis were batting at the crease, it seemed that they could easily cross the target of 220 runs.

But Australia was knocked out of the match in one over. Mitchell Santner took 3 wickets in the 13th over to put the hosts under pressure.

Santner stopped Philip’s bat for 45 in the third ball of the over. The Kiwi spinner returned Ashton Agar and Mitchell Marsh to the Golden Call in the fifth and sixth balls.

At the end of 13 overs, Australia collected 113 runs for 6 wickets. Marcus Stones and Daniel Sam took the helm of the team at this time.

Stones-Sams made a 92-run stand off 36 balls for the seventh wicket in a four-six storm. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online.

Match luck in the last over. And that over was packed with drama. Kiwi Jimmy Nisham was the protagonist in that play.

Australia needed 15 runs to win the last over. Batsman Sams-Stones at the crease. In fact, 15 runs from 8 balls was not impossible for Australia at all. But Nisham did not let it happen anymore.

He dismissed Sams with the first ball. He returned to the dressing room with 45 runs off 15 balls. Stones could not run the next two balls of that out. However, Stones took the level of excitement in the match to the extreme by hitting a six in the fourth ball. But the Aussie star was disappointed with the catch in the next ball.

Zhai Richardson hit the boundary in the last ball but could not meet the target. Australia’s innings stopped at 215 for 8.

New Zealand took a 2-0 lead in the five-match series by winning the second T20.