With Centuries From Mitchell And Phillips New Zealand Set India A Target Of 338

With the help of explosive century innings by Daryl Mitchell and Glenn Phillips, New Zealand has set a target of 338 runs for the Indian team to win in the match being played at Holkar Stadium in Indore.

In the third and deciding match of the series, the Indian team won the toss and decided to bowl first.

From here, Daryl Mitchell and Glenn Phillips took the lead and played a big role in taking the team’s score to 337 at the loss of 8 wickets in 50 overs by making an excellent partnership of 219 runs for the fourth wicket. Runs were not scored as expected in the last few overs, otherwise the total score could have gone above 360.

Daryl Mitchell scored the ninth century of his ODI career. This is Mitchell’s fourth century against India and second consecutive century in the series. Mitchell scored 137 runs in 131 balls, hitting 3 sixes and 15 fours. Glenn Phillips also scored a century.

This was the second century of Phillips’ career. Phillips played an innings of 106 runs in 88 balls with the help of 9 fours and 3 sixes. Will Young scored 30 and captain Michael Bracewell scored 28 not out.

For India, Arshdeep Singh and Harshit Rana took 3 wickets each. Harshit was a bit expensive. They lost 84 runs in 10 overs. Arshdeep gave 63 runs. Siraj took 1 wicket for 43 runs in 10 overs and Kuldeep Yadav took 1 wicket for 48 runs in 6 overs. Nitish Reddy and Ravindra Jadeja did not get wickets.

The 3-match series is tied at 1-1. The winner of this match will be the winner of the series.