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Moved out of India due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the IPL 2020 will be played across the three venues of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah in the UAE from September 19 to November 10
The six New Zealand players who are set to play in the IPL are James Neesham (KXIP), Lockie Ferguson (KKR), Mitchell McClenaghan and Trent Boult (MI), Kane Williamson (SRH) and Mitchell Santner (CSK)
The BCCI has already said that it is going ahead with the IPL as scheduled from March 29.
The trio of Boult, Henry and Ferguson was ruled out of the recent one-day series victory over India with injuries but will return as the specialist seamers alongside Tim Southee, Kyle Jamieson.
With a solid 120 points, New Zealand's tally has risen to 180 on ICC world test championship points table leaderboard; India stays on top for now with 360 points
The highly-rated Indian batting line-up, which boasts of having the likes of Virat Kohli, Cheteshwar Pujara and Rahane, would want to fire on all cylinders after being caught napping in Wellington
India's last defeat was against Australia cricket team at Perth during the 2018-19 series
Sent into bat after New Zealand won the toss, India were bowled out for a dismal 165 in its first innings, which eventually proved to be decisive on a Basin Reverse pitch that assisted the seamers
MI has made some strategic changes to its IPL 2020 squad by bringing in Australians Chris Lynn at the top of the batting order and Nathan Coulter-Nile as a bowling all-rounder
Including Saturday's One Day International (ODI) in Auckland, Southee has now dismissed Kohli nine times across formats.
Young batsman Shreyas Iyer's maiden One Day Internatioanl century went in vain as New Zealand cricket team defeated India cricket team by four wickets in the series-opener
Rahul will keep wickets and bat at number five like he did during the Australia series, says Kohli. This means Rishabh Pant may no find a place in India playing 11 like the T20s
New Zealand are set to hosts India for five T20Is, three ODIs, and two Tests
Hamish Bennett was earlier a regular in the New Zealand ODI squad and also played in the 2011 World Cup
India have also announced their 16-man squad for the series which gets underway at Eden Park on January 24.
With Hardik Pandya in the squad as batting all-rounder, MI were locked in an intense battle with CSK for Australian bowling all-rounder Nathan Coulter-Nile, and they finally bagged him for Rs 8 crore
Boult was ruled out of the final Test between New Zealand and Australia after fracturing his right hand when he was struck on the gloves by a Mitchell Starc delivery
The seasoned New Zealand bowler Boult made his IPL debut in 2014 and played for DC in the 2018 and 2019 season. He has 38 IPL wickets from 33 games.
During the 82nd over of the New Zealand innings on Thursday, Boult found a leading edge and the ball got stuck in his helmet grill.