Hardik Pandya's powerful shot leaves Kane Williamson in agony, but he bounces back with a stunning catch moments later.

The incident took place during the fifth ball of the 45th over. It was William O'Rourke who delivered a good-length ball which unexpectedly bounced higher than usual.

However, Hardik Pandya cut the ball pretty hard, and it went straight to Williamson at backward point. The ball raced to the former New Zealand captain and ended up stinging his hand.

Williamson then got a bit animated as he started kicking around and flinching his hands to gesture how painful the hit was. He first shook his hands and then jumped around to ease the pain away.

The entire incident also left commentators Ravi Shastri and Sunil Gavaskar in splits.

Earlier, Hardik Pandya and Kane Williamson were also seen chatting with each other after the end of the second drinks break. The chat seemed friendly, and the former Gujarat Titans teammates shared smiles.

Williamson takes a stunning catch

However, moments later, Kane Williamson took a stunning catch at backward point to send Ravindra Jadeja back to the hut for 16.

Matt Henry bowled a back-of-length delivery, and Ravindra Jadeja cut it to the left of Williamson. The Kiwi No.3 batter dived to gather the catch with his less dominant left hand.

Earlier, New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner won the toss and opted to bowl against India in the Group A encounter in Dubai. The Kiwi bowling lineup kept the Indian batters in check, and as a result, Rohit Sharma and co were able to post only 249/9 in the allotted fifty overs.

Shreyas Iyer was India's top scorer, with a knock of 79. Axar Patel and Hardik Pandya also played useful knocks of 42 and 45, respectively.

Matt Henry returned five wickets for New Zealand. Kyle Jamieson, William ORourke, Mitchell Santner, and Rachin Ravindra all returned with one wicket each.

Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli disappointed with the bat as the duo registered scores of 15 and 11 respectively.

The winner of New Zealand versus India will take on Australia in the semi-final, while the losing party will have to face South Africa in the other semi-final.

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