India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Highlights :New Zealand’s one-day woes continued into a ninth straight game as their batting failed to cope with moist early-morning conditions in Vadodara. Zaheer Khan and Munaf Patel swung and seamed the ball all right, but New Zealand will look back at how unremarkable their response was. With the pitch easing out in the afternoon, Gautam Gambhir made the easy chase look ridiculously easy, becoming only the eighth captain to score centuries in back-to-back ODIs.
From the time he won the toss and put New Zealand in, Gambhir hardly put a foot wrong, keeping his perfect captaincy record and India’s unbeaten home season intact. Gambhir’s bowlers and New Zealand batsmen responded to that call in equal measure.
India Team : G Gambhir, R Ashwin, RA Jadeja, Z Khan, V Kohli, P Kumar, A Nehra, MM Patel, YK Pathan, WP Saha, SS Tiwary, M Vijay, R Vinay Kumar, Yuvraj Singh
New Zealand Team : DL Vettori*, GD Elliott, JEC Franklin, MJ Guptill, GJ Hopkins†, JM How, BB McCullum, NL McCullum, AJ McKay, KD Mills, TG Southee, SB Styris, LRPL Taylor, KS Williamson
New Zealand 224/9 (50 ov)
India 229/1 (39.3 ov)
India won by 9 wickets (with 63 balls remaining)
India 229 for 1 (Gambhir 126*, Kohli 63*) beat New Zealand 224 for 9 (Franklin 72*, Zaheer 2-31) by nine wickets
Gautam Gambhir Biodata :
Born October 14, 1981, Delhi
Current age 29 years 51 days
Major teams India, Delhi, Delhi Daredevils, India Red, Indian Board President’s XI, Rajasthan Cricket Association President’s XI
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
The openers gifted their wickets, the middle order went into a shell, and even though James Franklin and Nathan McCullum added 94 for the ninth wicket, it was never going to be enough. Not with Gambhir making room and peppering the off side with drives and cuts, bringing up his fifty in 30 balls, out of India’s 64 then.
Watching Gambhir bat, the struggle New Zealand went through early in the morning seemed far away. Brendon McCullum, making a comeback himself, laid out a welcome mat for Zaheer, guiding a widish delivery straight to second slip. Martin Guptill ran himself out soon.
The way he turned out with the bat, Gambhir need not have worried either.After having been at the wrong end of Gambhir’s off-side play in Jaipur, New Zealand tried to cramp him up, and found that Gambhir was equally adept at scoring in the on side. He flicked the second ball he faced for a fine boundary. In Kyle Mills’ next over, he picked the gap between mid-on and midwicket. In Mills’ next Gambhir started making room and went into his favourite off side. He capitalised on the correction on the next delivery, moving to 23 off 11.
Andy McKay soon got the same treatment: wide ball, four; too straight, four; wide again, four. With time Gambhir’s favourite chips over extra cover and midwicket came out too. He might have seemed to slow down after reaching his fifty, but he took only 58 further deliveries to get to the hundred.
M Vijay didn’t struggle like he did in Jaipur, but had to stay content with being the lesser partner in that stand. And like he did in Japiur, Virat Kohli came out and scored a fifty in the company of his captain.
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