India Vs Newzealand Cricket Match Summery
January 24, 2023
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India Scores:- 385/ 9
(Gill 112, Rohit 101, Duffy 3-100)
vs New Zealand
(Innings Going On)
New Zealand restricted India to 385. You read it right. During a 212-run opening stand at over eight runs an over, India looked set to have a shot at the first 500 in ODIs. Two double-centuries in an innings didn't look out of reach either, as Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill brought up their hundreds in the 26th over. However, once the slower balls started to grip, New Zealand's bowlers improved their analysis as India scored 173 for 8 in the last 24 overs.
What perhaps helped New Zealand's comeback was that India's incoming batters tried to bat in a manner that would do justice to the start, thus taking risks that the slowed-down pitch perhaps didn't merit. For Rohit and Gill blazed away effortlessly in the first 26. They had hit 22 fours and 10 sixes by then. When they batted, the pitch looked too flat, the ground too small and the outfield too quick.
Pushes went away for fours, mis-hits sailed for sixes, and they flicked from outside off and hit sixes without reaching the pitch of the ball. Most of the shots, though, were just sweetly timed.
Lockie Ferguson, who had bowled a maiden and conceded only six runs in his first three overs, was then taken for 22 runs in his fourth. And apart from one full-toss, he didn't bowl a single bad ball. Gill just trusted the pitch and used the quick outfield.
It was now almost a competition. Rohit responded by taking 17 off the tenth over, both hooking and charging at Duffy. As Gill hit fours with a leg glance and an extra-cover drive to bring up his fifty, Rohit matched it with two sixes off Mitchell Santner to bring up his own.
After the first drinks break, at 147 for 0 in 17 overs, New Zealand tied down the batters, relatively speaking. Santner and Ferguson combined to bowl three straight overs without a boundary from one end. From the other end, Daryl Mitchell got excited when Rohit hit one high in the air, but was left frustrated when it cleared long-on.
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Mitchell was bowling possibly because they didn't want to feed offspinner Michael Bracewell to the two set right-hand batters. When Bracewell finally came on, Gill welcomed him with a chipped four over extra cover and a massive slog-swept six to join Rohit in the 90s.
After both got their hundreds - Rohit off 83 balls, his first in three years, and Gill off 72, his third in four innings - they tried to get the scoring rate back up. Rohit tried to put Bracewell in the stands but missed a full straight delivery. Gill kept going after the bowling, pulling Blair Tickner for a six before getting out to the slower bouncer.
Virat Kohli looked just as dangerous, but against Ishan Kishan the bowlers found some control. Kishan was 5 off 15 at one point, and got closer to a run a ball before calling Kohli through for a risky single and then sacrificing his wicket. Kohli tried to loft Duffy over extra-cover but ended hitting him straight to mid-off to be dismissed for 36 off 27.
At 248 for 4 in the 37th over, Suryakumar Yadav kept going, hitting two sixes in his 14 off 9. Lack of pace off the pitch got him out to Duffy, holing out to long-on. Now Hardik Pandya and Washington Sundar had to slow down to make sure India had enough wickets in hand for the death overs.
Another slower ball from Tickner got Washington to reduce India to 313 for 6 in the 43rd over. Two more overs went by without a boundary with Pandya 18 off 24. However, from overs 46 to 49, India scored 57. Shardul Thakur contributed 25 off 17, as Pandya raced to his half-century off 36 deliveries. Duffy brought up his own hundred, but he took Pandya out with a slower ball in the 49th, which might have saved New Zealand another 15 runs.
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