India’s first-ever T20 win over NZ decoded

Shikhar Dhawan (80) has posted his career-best score in T20Is, surpassing the 60 vs Bangladesh at Dhaka on March 6, 2016. His only other fifty in this format is 51 vs Sri Lanka at Ranchi on February 12, 2016. His first Man of the Match award vs New Zealand is his third in T20Is.

Rohit's 80 off 55 balls is his third highest score in T20Is - the top two being 106 off 66 balls vs South Africa at Dharamsala on October 2, 2015 and 83 off 55 balls vs Bangladesh at Dhaka on February 24, 2016.

Rohit has become the second Indian batsman to complete 1,000 runs in a winning cause in T20Is - his tally being 1010 at 37.40, including ten fifties, in 41 matches. Virat Kohli has amassed 1322 runs at an average of 69.57 in 34 matches, including 13 fifties, in a winning cause.

Both Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan, with 80 each, jointly hold an Indian record for the highest individual innings vs New Zealand in T20Is. Both were involved in a stand of 158 for the first wicket - India's highest partnership for any wicket in Twenty20 Internationals, eclipsing the 138 for the second wicket between Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma vs South Africa at Dharamsala on October 2, 2015.

India's previous highest opening stand in T20Is was 136 between Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag vs England at Durban on September 19, 2007.

Overall, the 158-run stand is the third highest opening partnership in T20Is - the highest being 171 (unbroken) between Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson for New Zealand vs Pakistan at Hamilton on January 17, 2016. This stand is the highest by any pair for any wicket vs NZ in T20Is, eclipsing 143 for the first wicket between Michael Lumb and Alex Hales for England on on February 15, 2013.

Rohit and Dhawan had played 98 balls during the partnership - the highest by any pair and the second highest for any wicket next only to the 99 balls faced by Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara during their stand of 166 for the second wicket for Sri Lanka vs WI on May 7, 2010.

Rohit Sharma took his sixes' tally to 268 in 257 matches, establishing an Indian record in Twenty20, over taking Suresh Raina's tally of 265 in 259 matches.

Chahal's bowling record is excellent in T20Is, capturing 17 wickets in ten matches at an average of 17.35, including a five-wicket haul - 6 for 25 vs England at Bengaluru on February 1, 2017.

For the first time, New Zealand could not get a wicket of their opponent in the first ten overs while bowling first in T20Is Trent Boult (4-0-49-1) has conceded most runs in his four-over spell in T20Is.