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India vs New Zealand Highlights: India has lost to New Zealand by 7 wickets in the second ODI. With this, New Zealand is tied at one point each in the 3 ODI series. The century innings of Daryl Mitchell was heavy on the entire Indian team. In this ODI match played in Rajkot, Team India batted first and scored 284 runs. In reply, the Kiwi team achieved this target in the 48th over itself.
After losing the toss in this match, the Indian team was invited to bat first. Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli got the start, but could not play big innings. Whereas captain Shubman Gill played an inning of 56 runs. Shreyas Iyer also flopped in this match, but KL Rahul single-handedly helped Team India reach the score of 284 by scoring unbeaten 112 runs. This was Rahul’s 8th century in his ODI career.
Daryl Mitchell snatched victory
Even before reaching the score of 50, the New Zealand team had lost 2 wickets. At that time, the Indian team needed to take wickets by continuously putting pressure on the Kiwi team, but in the heavy pressure situation, Daryl Mitchell and Will Young made a partnership of 162 runs. This partnership made a huge difference in the match. Will Young was out after scoring 87 runs, but Daryl Mitchell held the other end. He scored 131 runs in 117 balls, in this innings he hit 11 fours and 2 sixes.
Kuldeep Yadav in particular proved to be very expensive for India. He did take one wicket, but gave away 82 runs in 10 overs. Apart from him, Prasidh Krishna and Harshit Rana were able to take one wicket each. Both the teams are now tied each in the ODI series and the series winner will be decided on January 18 in Indore.