The match was attended by 21,537 people.
India made just one change to their playing eleven –
Rohit (Shar)made way for Ravindra Jadeja.
New Zealand made no changes to their playing eleven.
On winning the toss, Daniel Vettori, New Zealand’s
skipper, inserted the visitors.
Virender Sehwag, whose 11-ball (Ia)innings included
five boundaries, scored 24. Twenty-one balls into the match, he was caught by
Vettori. O’Brien broke the 29-run stand.
Suresh Raina, who faced four balls, didn’t get off the
mark. Half-a-dozen balls later, he was caught by Tim Southee. Needless to say, Ian
Butler was in seventh heaven.
Gautam Gambhir, whose 13-ball innings included a six,
scored 10. Ten balls later, he was caught by Brendon McCullum, the player of
the match. Butler broke the 11-run stand.
India scored 50 off 6.4 overs (41 balls). New Zealand
had conceded a couple of extras at that point.
Yuvraj Singh’s half-century – which included three boundaries
and four sixes – came off 32 balls. He eventually faced 34 balls, failing to
add to the aforementioned score. Thirty-nine balls after Gambhir’s dismissal,
he was caught by Jacob Oram. O’Brien broke the 45-run stand.
Yusuf Pathan, who faced a couple of balls, didn’t get
off the mark. Four balls later, Vettori broke the two-run stand.
India scored 100 off 15.2 overs (93 balls). New Zealand
had conceded three extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of
extras they eventually conceded.
Jadeja, whose 16-ball (Mart)innings included a
boundary and a six, scored 19. Twenty-one balls later, he was caught by
Guptill. Southee broke the 27-run stand.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s skipper, scored 28. His 30-ball
innings included a couple of boundaries. He was unbeaten, as was Irfan Pathan,
who scored 15. His 10-ball innings included a six.
India scored 149 for the loss of half-a-dozen wickets
off 20 overs.
Each of the five bowlers bowled four overs apiece.
Jesse Ryder, who conceded 18, was wicketless. Southee and Vettori, who picked
up a wicket apiece. While the former conceded 36, the latter conceded 21.
Butler and O’Brien picked up a couple of scalps apiece. While the former
conceded 42, the latter conceded 30.
New Zealand’s openers scored 50 off 4.1 overs (26 balls).
India had conceded an extra at that point. Both Ryder’s and Brendon’s contributions
to the partnership were 25 apiece.
Ryder, whose 15-ball innings included three boundaries
and a couple of sixes, eventually scored 26. Twenty-nine balls into the chase,
Zaheer Khan broke the 53-run partnership.
Guptill, whose 19-ball innings included a boundary,
scored 10. Twenty-five balls later, he was trapped leg before wicket by Harbhajan
Singh, who broke the 16-run stand.
New Zealand scored 100 off 14.2 overs (88 balls).
India had conceded five extras at that point.
Brendon’s half-century – which included five boundaries
and a six – came off 43 balls.
The third-wicket pair put on 50 off 48 balls. While Brendon’s
contribution to the partnership was 19, Ross Taylor’s contribution to it was
22. Extras’ contribution to the partnership was nine.
Taylor, whose 25-ball innings included a couple of
boundaries, eventually scored 27. Fifty-one balls later, Irfan broke the 56-run
partnership.
The fourth-wicket pair failed to get off the mark.
Oram, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. The next ball, he was caught
by Dhoni off the bowling of Irfan.
Neil Broom, whose three-ball innings included a
boundary, scored five. Seven balls later, he was caught by Irfan. Yuvraj broke
the nine-run stand.
New Zealand scored 150 (for the loss of five wickets)
off 20 overs (124 balls). India had conceded a dozen extras at that point. That
was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.
Brendon, whose 55-ball innings included eight
boundaries and a six, eventually scored 69. He was unbeaten, as was Nathan
McCullum, who faced a couple of balls, scoring a run.
New Zealand won by five wickets. Ishant Sharma, who
bowled a couple of overs, conceded 19. He was wicketless, as was Jadeja, who
bowled four overs, conceding 21.
Yuvraj, who bowled a couple of overs, conceded 17. He
picked up a wicket, as did Zaheer and Harbhajan, who bowled four overs apiece.
While the former conceded 30, the latter conceded 15. Irfan, who bowled four
overs, conceded 41. He picked up a couple of scalps.
New Zealand won the two-match series 2-0.
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