New Delhi
Due to the excellent bowling of Indian bowlers led by Arshdeep Singh and later a stormy half-century by Virat Kohli, the Indian team defeated New Zealand by 5 wickets in the first ODI played in Auckland on Wednesday.
Rain disrupted the match played at Eden Park thrice. Earlier the toss was delayed due to rain. After this, for the second time due to rain there was a reduction of 10 overs. At that time India had the target of 167 runs in 40 overs.
The match started again after the rain stopped. But after just one over, rain again disrupted the match. This time the match was reduced by eight overs and India got the target of 143 runs in 32 overs.
India won with the innings of Gill-Kohli
After the wicket of Rohit Sharma fell in the first over itself, Gill and Kohli took control of the crease. Both of them made a partnership of 113 runs in 104 balls for the second wicket.
New Zealand’s bowlers looked helpless in front of Gill and Kohli. Kohli played a stormy innings of 74 runs in 51 balls with the help of 13 fours and one six. Whereas Gill supported Kohli very well by scoring 37 runs in 56 balls. Due to the strong innings of both, India easily won the match in the 23rd over.
Under the leadership of Arshdeep, India bowled out New Zealand for 185 runs.
Earlier, Indian captain Gill had decided to bowl first after winning the toss, which was proved right by the bowlers of Team India. Under the leadership of Arshdeep, Indian bowlers bowled out New Zealand for 185 runs in just 40.2 overs.
Apart from Arshdeep, Gurnoor Brar took ten wickets. Whereas Anshul Kamboj took two wickets in his name. Tim Seifert played the biggest innings for New Zealand. 38 runs came from his bat.
Apart from this, Glenn Phillips contributed 30 runs. In the last over, thanks to Blair Tickner’s stormy inning of 34 runs in 22 balls, New Zealand’s score reached close to 200.