So I don't think you need any extra motivation to get yourself up. That's another opportunity to represent your country. "The goal is to get one last push before we get home after the next game.
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The result meant that the Kolkata match would be a dead rubber but Southee hopes to end the series on a high before the two Tests. But yeah, like I said they were just just too good tonight," he said. "It was tough for our spinners to get a good grip on the ball. For me, I was just trying to replicate what they did, which looked hard during our innings. "We needed to take early wickets to put them under pressure. Credit to the Indians they outplayed us," Southee said.
It's tough, you can obviously train with a wet ball but we're not able to adapt as we would have liked. "There was heavy dew throughout the whole night and it affected both sides.
Under dewy conditions, India knocked off the total with 16 balls to spare to take an unassailable 2-0 lead going into the final T20I. On Friday, the Kiwis started off in an explosive fashion going over 10 runs per over in the powerplay but they could not capitalise in the middle overs and were restricted to a modest 153/6. India have also had luck on their side as new T20 skipper Rohit Sharma won both tosses and successfully chased down the totals. "It's been a hectic schedule on the back of the T20 World Cup, I just don't think we adapted to the surface as well as we could have," Southee said at the post-match conference.
New Zealand's captain Tim Southee, right, celebrates with Martin Guptill the dismissal of India's Suryakumar Yadav during the second T20 match between India and New Zealand in Ranchi on Friday.
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