India made three changes to their playing eleven – Ajinkya Rahane, Umesh Yadav and Ashok Dinda made way for Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan and Twenty20 International debutant Lakshmipathy Balaji.
New Zealand
made half-a-dozen changes to the eleven that last played the Indians – Jesse
Ryder, Neil Broom, Nathan McCullum, Ian Butler, Tim Southee and Iain O’Brien
made way for Rob Nicol, Kane Williamson, James Franklin, Ronnie Hira, Adam
Milne and Kyle Mills.
On winning
the toss, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, India’s skipper, inserted the visitors.
The Powerplay
of New Zealand’s innings – which was between the mandatory Powerplay – was between
the first and the seventh over. They scored 40, and lost a couple of wickets.
Nicol, who
faced four balls, didn’t get off the mark. An over into the match, Khan broke
the tow-run stand.
The
second-wicket pair didn’t get off the mark. Martin Guptill, who faced five
balls, scored a run. Three balls later, he was dismissed by Irfan Pathan.
New Zealand
scored 50 off 8.2 overs (50 balls). India had conceded a couple of extras at
that point.
The
third-wicket pair put on 50 off 41 balls. While the contribution of Brendon
McCullum, the player of the match, to the partnership was 35, Kane Williamson’s
contribution to it was 17. Extras’ contribution to the partnership was a run.
Williamson,
whose 26-ball innings included three boundaries, eventually scored 28.
Sixty-six balls after Guptill, he was caught by Ravichandran Ashwin. Pathan
broke the 90-run partnership.
McCullum’s
half-century – which included half-a-dozen boundaries and a couple of sixes –
came off 32 balls.
New Zealand
scored 100 off 14 overs (84 balls). India had conceded a couple of extras at
that point.
McCullum,
whose 55-ball innings including 11 boundaries and three sixes, eventually scored
91. Twenty-five balls after Williamson’s dismissal, Pathan broke the 47-run
stand.
Franklin,
who faced a couple of balls, scored a run. Four balls later, he was caught by
Yuvraj Singh. Balaji broke the three-run stand.
New Zealand
scored 150 off 18.1 overs (109 balls). India had conceded three extras at that
point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.
Ross Taylor,
New Zealand’s skipper, scored 25 off 19 balls, which included a boundary. He was
unbeaten, as was Jacob Oram, who scored 18 off nine balls, which included three
boundaries.
New Zealand
scored 167 for the loss of five wickets off 20 overs. Yuvraj, who bowled a
couple of overs, conceded 14. He was wicketless, as were Ashwin and Virat
Kohli, who bowled three overs apiece. While the former conceded 34, the latter
conceded 27.
Balaji and
Khan bowled four overs each, picking up a wicket apiece. While the former
conceded 33, the latter conceded 27. Pathan, who bowled four overs, conceded
31. He picked up three scalps.
The Powerplay
of India’s innings – which was between the mandatory Powerplay – was between
the first and the sixth over. They scored 47, and lost a wicket.
Gautam Gambhir,
who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored just three. Three overs into the match, he
was caught by Mills, who broke the 26-run stand.
India scored
50 off 6.1 overs (37 balls). New Zealand hadn’t conceded any extras at that
point.
Kohli’s
half-century – which included nine boundaries – came off 30 balls.
The
second-wicket pair put on 50 off 37 balls. While Kohli’s contribution to the
partnership was 31, Suresh Raina’s contribution to it was 19. Extras didn’t contribute
to the partnership.
Raina,
whose 22-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and a six, eventually
scored 27. Forty-four balls after Gambhir’s dismissal, he was caught by Taylor.
Mills broke the 60-run partnership.
India scored
100 off 11.5 overs (71 balls). New Zealand hadn’t conceded any extras at that
point.
Kohli,
whose 41-ball innings included 10 boundaries and a six, eventually scored 70.
Eighteen balls after Raina’s dismissal, he was caught by the substitute, Tim
Southee. Franklin broke the 34-run stand.
India scored
150 off 18.5 overs (113 balls). New Zealand had conceded three extras at that
point.
Yuvraj,
whose 26-ball innings included a boundary and a couple of sixes, scored 34.
Thirty-eight balls later, Franklin broke the 42-run stand.
Dhoni,
whose 23-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 22. He was
unbeaten, as was Rohit Sharma, who faced a couple of balls, scoring four.
New Zealand
eventually conceded half-a-dozen extras. India, who scored 166 for the loss of
four wickets off 20 overs, lost by a run. Hira bowled a couple of wicketless
overs, conceding 20. Milne bowled three wicketless overs, conceding 36.
Daniel Vettori
and Oram bowled four wicketless overs apiece. While the former conceded 37, the
latter conceded 27.
Mills bowled
three overs, conceding 17. He picked up a couple of scalps, as did Franklin,
who bowled four overs, conceding 26.
New Zealand
won the two-match series 1-0.
