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New Zealand again created history, won the ODI series for the first time in India, Team India lost by 41 runs in the final match.

By Samira Vishwas

Indore, 18 January. There was a lot of rain of runs between three century hits at Holkar Stadium on Sunday. On one hand, Daryl Mitchell (137 runs, 131 balls, three sixes, 15 fours) and Glenn Phillips (106 runs, 88 balls, three sixes, nine fours) gave a tough test to the host bowlers, while after the failure of other giants in front of the difficult target, King Kohli (124 runs, 108 balls, three sixes, 10 fours) took charge alone. But apart from Kohli, the half-century efforts of Nitish Kumar Reddy and Harshit Rana ultimately proved inadequate and New Zealand once again created history by defeating Team India by 41 runs in the third and final match and writing its name in the ODI series 2-1.

Kohli’s century attempt was futile in front of hundreds of Mitchell and Phillips

In fact, after the Test series on Indian soil, the Kiwi team has now won the ODI series for the first time in 37 years. Before this, New Zealand had played seven bilateral ODI series here since 1989 and had to face defeat in all of them. Talking about India, after March 2019 i.e. for the last seven years, it had not lost any bilateral ODI series on its home ground. Then Australia came back from 0-2 down and won the series 3-2.

Kiwis also created history with a clean sweep in the Test series in 2024

It is noteworthy that in November 2024, New Zealand had also created history for the first time with a clean sweep (3-0) in a Test series on Indian soil. Before that, no guest had been able to achieve a clean sweep against rivals India at home. Then the Kiwis, led by Tom Latham, completely wiped out Rohit Sharma and Company by a margin of 3-0.

Mitchell and Phillips added 219 runs for the fourth wicket

Talking about the match, New Zealand, forced to bat first, scored a huge score of 337 runs for eight wickets with the valuable partnership of 219 runs for the fourth wicket between Daryl Mitchell and Glenn Phillips, who scored the second consecutive century. In reply, after a poor start, despite the struggles of Kohli, Nitish Reddy (53 runs, 57 balls, two sixes, two fours) and Harshit Rana (52 runs, 43 balls, four sixes, four fours), the hosts were restricted to 296 runs in 46 overs.

India’s poor beginning

In fact, the start of the Indian team got spoiled when Rohit Sharma (11 runs, 13 balls, two fours) and captain Shubman Gill (23 runs, 18 balls, four fours) returned cheaply in front of Jack Fox (3-77) and Kyle Jamieson (1-58). On the other hand, Christian Clarke (3-54) and Jaden Lennox (2-42) removed Shreyas Iyer (three runs) and KL Rahul (one run) (4-71).

Kohli scored 54th century of ODI career

After this, Kohli not only scored the 54th century of his ODI career and record seventh century against New Zealand in 91 balls but also made two important partnerships of 88 runs for the fifth wicket with Nitish and 99 runs for the seventh wicket with Harshit. Both these partnerships gave India the flavor of victory, which ended with Virat’s dismissal as the ninth wicket.

Mitchell and Phillips loosened the strings of the host bowlers

Before this, Arshdeep Singh (3-63) and Harshit Rana (3-84) spoiled the start of the Kiwi innings and returned the top three batsmen including both the openers for 58 runs by the 13th over. Among these, Will Young’s contribution was 30 runs (41 balls, one six, five fours). But after this, Mitchell and Phillips weakened the strength of the host bowlers with stormy attacks.

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Arshdeep broke the marathon partnership by returning Phillips in the 44th over and Mohd. in the very next over. Siraj put a complete stop to Mitchell’s innings. At present, captain Mitchell Bracewell (28 not out, 18 balls, three sixes, one four) showed his sharp hand and along with the tailenders, took the team beyond 325.

Darryl Mitchell Bane ‘Player of the Series’

Daryl Mitchell was adjudged ‘Player of the Match’ for his brilliant batting in the third match and ‘Player of the Series’ for his strong performance with the bat in the series. He scored a total of 352 runs including two centuries in three matches.

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