Highlights
- Kyle Jamieson makes his debute match in home ground.
- Taylor scored 11 fifty plus score against India.
- Saini shows off with 45 from 49 to score his best across all formats.
Venue : Eden Park, Auckland
Second ODI match of the series takes place at India’s favorite stadium in New Zealand. Kohli state that Auckland’s Eden Park suited for chase a total. He also said:”It looks a hard wicket. It’s pretty small ground and difficult to defend here”. New Zealand captain Latham said:”the record chase in Hamilton was good for us. We need to do well with the bat here, build partnerships and get the runs on the board”.
Changes in the team
INDIA: After the loss in first ODI , India change their game play right from its playing XI squad. Navdeep Saini and Yuzvendra Chahal brought in the squad for Mohammed Shami and Kuldeep Yadav.
NEW ZEALAND: Kyle Jamieson make his debut match in his home ground replacing Ish Sodhi in the playing squad. Mitchell Santner goes down with a stomach bug and leaves Kiwis with no spin option.
New Zealand Batting:
India won the toss and decide to bowl first. New Zealand openers Martin and Nicholls starts with steady partnership until Chahal took the Nicholls wicket by an LBW. Tom Blundell joins hand with Martin and build a partnership of 49 runs. Blundell taken at mid-on by saini from Thakur’s delivery when he tries to hit a length ball outside off. Soon the aggressive striker Martin Guptil lose his wicket(run-out) to Thakur’s flat throw right over the top of the stumps. Guptil returns to pavilion at 79 runs off 79 balls that includes 8×4,3×6. Jadeja’s throw for the Nessham’s wicket stunned everyone.
What a throw by #Ravindra #Jadeja to dismiss #Neesham 3(5) to take their 5th wicket.
NZ are 202-8 after 42 overs.#INDvsNZ #NZvIND pic.twitter.com/h4kYi52R6D— Toshi (@saffron_sword3) February 8, 2020
New Zealand collapsed dramatically from 142/1 to 187/7 at Auckland, There comes the “Seddon Park King” Taylor who struggles to make a partnership as the remaining players return to hut quickly. The debute player Kyle Jamieson(25 off 24) along with Taylor carry the team towards a score of 273. Taylor scored 73 off 74 and remain undefeated in the pitch. Chahal took 3 wickets for 58 runs in ten overs.
India struggles to make run
After the loss in the first ODI,India’s fairly new opening pair Prithiv Shaw and Mayank Agarwal make their way to defeat a descent score of 273. Mayank Agarwal(3) struggles in batting and return to the pavilion without scoring much. Prithiv Shaw and Virat Kohli put their efforts to face the New Zealand bowlers where shaw(24) can’t able to withstand. India’s run machine Virat Kohli lost his wicket to Southee’s ball that breached Virat’s defence and hit the middle and leg stumps. In the position of 57 for 3 wickets ,chassing a score of 273 looks tremendous for India.
Shreyas Iyer who is good at playing cut shots,while clearing his front leg looking to cut a ball right off the top of middle stump where its not short enough and doesn’t have room. Shreyas Iyer return to pavilion with a half century. KL Rahul(4) who is in glorious form took the wrong ball to cut and get an inside edge back on to the stumps. Jadav(9) who looks capable enough to block the good ones but goes after the wrong ball and present a simple catch to Nicholls.
India seek’s hope from Jadeja
India lost its top 5 batsman without scoring a ton for the team. Now the all-rounder Jadeja who teams up with Saini plays the game in under-pressure to recover the team for losing. After hitting six over extra cover Saini’s fun comes to an end after the ball hits the top of the leg stumps. Saini’s 45 off 49 that includes 5×4 and 2×6 by the way this is Saini’s best score across formats. Inspite of Jadeja’s(55) effort,India lost the game by 22 runs as well as the series(0-2).
Player of the match:Kyle Jamieson
Batting :25 off 24
Bowling:42 for 2(10 over)
Jamieson Debute player just start his carrier with a player of the match in his home ground. He says that: Bit of a high at the moment. Still kind of sinking it. The game kind of ebbed and flowed. It was pretty simple: we were just trying to get it through 50 overs. Just trying and stick with Ross. Relief was the feeling to get the first wicket out of the way and not give too many runs. International cricket is quite high intensity, but it was pretty cool.
Playing 11
India: Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Virat Kohli (c), Shreyas Iyer, Lokesh Rahul (wk), Kedar Jadhav, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah
New Zealand: Martin Guptill, Henry Nicholls, Tom Blundell, Ross Taylor, Tom Latham (c & wk), Mark Chapman, James Neesham, Colin de Grandhomme, Kyle Jamieson, Tim Southee, Hamish Bennett
