{"id":10505,"date":"2026-01-28T19:12:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=684673"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:12:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:42:55","slug":"ind-vs-nz-4th-t20i-kiwi-openers-smash-14-runs-in-arshdeeps-opening-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ind-vs-nz-4th-t20i-kiwi-openers-smash-14-runs-in-arshdeeps-opening-over\/","title":{"rendered":"IND vs NZ 4th T20I: Kiwi openers smash 14 runs in Arshdeep\u2019s opening over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s decision to bowl first produced instant drama as <strong>Arshdeep Singh<\/strong> opened the attack against New Zealand in the fourth T20I. Facing him, <strong>Tim Seifert<\/strong> walked a fine line between aggression and fortune, surviving multiple edges in a lively opening over.<\/p>\n<p>After a quiet start, Seifert suddenly cashed in with <strong>three consecutive fours<\/strong>, all coming via thick edges rather than clean timing. One flew over short third man, another raced past the fielder after an attempted slash, while a third saw <strong>Jasprit Bumrah<\/strong> get a hand to the ball but fail to control it near the boundary. What could easily have been a wicket instead turned into a rapid momentum shift for New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The over underlined the fine margins early in the innings, especially with swing on offer. Arshdeep mixed short balls and away movement, troubling both openers despite the boundary count. A yorker to close the over limited further damage, but Seifert had already ensured a brisk start.<\/p>\n<p>At the other end, <strong>Devon Conway<\/strong> began cautiously. However, numbers remain a concern for him. Conway has been dismissed <strong>four times by Arshdeep Singh and twice by Harshit Rana<\/strong> in T20Is, and his recent form only adds pressure during the powerplay.<\/p>\n<p>With slip in place and movement off the pitch, India clearly backed their data-driven match-ups. While Seifert escaped early, the opening exchanges suggested wickets were not far away, setting up an intriguing powerplay battle between India\u2019s pace attack and New Zealand\u2019s unsettled opening pair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s decision to bowl first produced instant drama as Arshdeep Singh opened the attack against New Zealand in the fourth\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":32982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}