Player of the Match : LRPL Taylor (New Zealand)
4th One Day Match : Fourth ODI of 5 match series between New Zealand and India were played at Seddon Park, Hamilton today. New Zeland won the match by 7 wickets with 11 ball spares to bowled. LRPL Taylor made 112 runs of 127 balls and leg NewZealand to win the series by 3-0,
Ealier, MS Dhoni skipper of India won the Toss and decided to bat first and set target for New Zealand. Today India made two changes in squad. Shikhar dhawan and Raina rested. STR Binny made ODI debut and AT Rayudu also included for this match. Rohit Sharma started inning with Virat Kohli today. Kohli departed early scoring just 2 runs. Rahane also made his way to pavillion for just 3 runs. AT Rayudu played well and contributed 37 runs. In later overs skipper Dhoni 79 of 73 balls and RA Jadeja 62 of 54 balls played quick innings and put India on 278 runs at the end of 50 overs.
Following target of 279 runs, New Zealand started Inning aggrassively with Ryder and Guptill. Both started well, but Ryder lost his wicket scoring 19 runs. Guptill also departed contributing 35 runs. Wuilliamson and Taylor took the charge and played splinded innings for New Zealand. Willimson brilliently runs out by RA Jadeja for 60 runs. Skipper BB McCullum joined with Taylor and achived the given target in 48.1 overs. Taylor completed his century and made 112 runs unbeaten. Skipper also made 49 runs. Thus, New Zealand won the match by 7 wickets and led the 5-match series 3-0.
LRPL Taylor (NewZealand) declared man of the match for his superb inning of 112 runs of 127 balls. |