India suffered a big defeat at their opening game in WT20 2016 against New Zealand at Nagpur on Tuesday night. In the low scoring match, India failed to chase the 127 runs target (New Zealand 126/7 in 20 overs) as they (India 79/10 in 18.1 overs) lost by 47 runs against the New Zealand team.

The whole match is described in pictures in the following:

New Zealand captain Kane Williamson won the important toss and decided to bat first (Image Credit: Twitter)

2. Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin gave early break through by dismissing Kiwi opener Martin Guptill on just 6 runs in the second ball of the match (Image Credit: Twitter)

3. Indian pacer Ashish Nehra gave another early breakthrough by dismissing Kiwi batsman Colin Munro (Image Credit: Twitter)

4. New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson got stump out after scoring just 8 runs in 16 balls (Image Credit: Twitter) 5. Kiwi batsman Corey Anderson played an important knock of 34 runs in 42 balls (Image Credit: Twitter)

6. Indian pacer Jasprit Bumrah dismissed Corey Anderson with a superb yorker (Image Credit: Twitter)7. New Zealand removed Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan in the very first over (Image Credit: Twitter)

8. Kiwi players were enjoying by taking Indian wickets at regular interval (Image Credit: Twitter)

9. Indian skipper MS Dhoni fought hard lonely to survive Indian team but couldn’t success (Image Credit: Twitter)

10. New Zealand left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner put a brilliant performance with his bowling and finished with the figure of 4-0-11-4. He also scored an important 18 runs with his batting. He was awarded “man of the match” for this game. (Image Credit: Twitter)

11. New Zealand team retain their unbeaten record against India in T20I by winning 47 runs in the low-scoring game. (Image Credit: Twitter)