IND vs NZ Live Score: Clinical Kiwis Thump India By 22 Runs To Seal Series 2-0 At Auckland
Background
Auckland: After inflicting a 5-0 whitewash over the Kiwis in the T20I series, India tasted defeat in the ODI series opener in Hamilton but Virat Kohli-led Indian team will look to bounce back with a with a win in the 2nd ODI at Eden Park in Auckland and take the 3-match series into the decider.
The main area of concern for Kohli will be their below par bowling efforts which has conceded plenty of runs. Both spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja were taken to the cleaners in the first game and even pacers, including their frontline seamer Jasprit Bumrah, failed to exert pressure on the Kiwi batters.
Squads:
India: K.L. Rahul(wk), Mayank Agarwal, Virat Kohli(c), Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Prithvi Shaw, Kuldeep Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Kedar Jadhav, Shardul Thakur.
New Zealand Squad: Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls, Ross Taylor, Tom Latham(wk/c), Mark Chapman, James Neesham, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Hamish Bennett, Ish Sodhi, Tom Blundell, Kyle Jamieson, Scott Kuggeleijn.
The fifty-plus partnership between Navdeep Saini (45 off 49 balls) and Ravindra Jadeja gave some hope to the Indian team in the end but post Saini's dismissal, Jadeja and other tail-enders failed to chase down the target.
India is taking on New Zealand in the 2nd ODI. Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravindra Jadeja have come out to open for India. India are 246 runs for the loss of 8 wicket after 47 over. India will score 259 with 5.2 runs rate. India require another 27 runs to win this contest.
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