IND vs NZ: KL Rahul’s century went in vain, Daryl Mitchell looted the party; Indian team suffered a crushing defeat

India vs New Zealand, 2nd ODI: New Zealand won the second match of the three-match ODI series being played between India and New Zealand by 7 wickets. With this victory, the New Zealand team has leveled the series at 1-1. New Zealand achieved this victory with the brilliant century innings of Daryl Mitchell. Now both the teams will have their eyes on the third and last match to be held on January 18.

New Zealand won the toss and invited hosts India to bat first at the Niranjan Shah Stadium on Wednesday. The pair of Rohit Sharma and captain Shubman Gill gave a great start to Team India. Both players scored 70 runs in 12.2 overs. Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion after scoring 24 runs in 38 balls with 4 fours. From here, captain Gill tried to take the lead with Virat Kohli, but Shubhman Gill returned to the pavilion after scoring 56 runs in 53 balls with 1 six and 9 fours, while Kohli contributed 23 runs to the team’s account.

KL Rahul played a century innings

The Indian team had lost 4 wickets by the score of 118. From here, KL Rahul made a partnership of 73 runs in 88 balls with Ravindra Jadeja for the fifth wicket, taking the team to the score of 191. Jadeja was out after adding 27 runs to the team’s account. KL Rahul remained at one end and completed his 8th century. KL Rahul faced 92 balls in this innings, in which he scored unbeaten 112 runs with 1 six and 11 fours. With the help of his innings, India scored 284 runs after losing 7 wickets in the stipulated overs. Christian Clarke took 3 wickets for New Zealand.

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Partnership of 162 runs between Mitchell and Young

The New Zealand team that set out to chase this target did not have a very good start. Devon Conway was out after scoring 16 runs and Henry Nicholls was out after scoring 10 runs. After this, Will Young and Daryl Mitchell made the match completely in favor of New Zealand by making a partnership of 162 runs. However, Will Young was out on the score of 87.

New Zealand won with Daryl Mitchell’s unbeaten century.

Daryl Mitchell completed his century after Will Young was out. This was Mitchell’s 8th century. Daryl Mitchell scored his century in 96 balls. Daryl Mitchell played an unbeaten inning of 131 runs. Facing 117 balls, Mitchell scored unbeaten 131 runs with 11 fours and 2 sixes. Glenn Phillips played an unbeaten inning of 32 runs and led the team to victory by 7 wickets. For India, Harshit Rana took 1 wicket, Kuldeep Yadav took 1 wicket and Prasidh Krishna took 1 wicket.

Most centuries for NZ vs IND in ODI

• 5 – Nathan Astle (29 innings)
• 3 – Daryl Mitchell (10 innings)*
• 3 – Chris Cairns (28 innings)
• 3 – Ross Taylor (34 innings)