NEW DELHI: All-round India produced a medical efficiency with both bat and ball to sign up a squashing eight-wicket win over New Zealand in the 2nd one-day international (ODI) on Saturday in Raipur.
With the success, India took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
After bowlers knocked out the Kiwis for a meagre 108, India batters ferreted out the small target in simply 20.1 overs for a commanding win.
As it occurred: India vs New Zealand, 2nd ODIThe 109-run target was too little for the well known India batting line-up from the start, and their openers made certain that there were no early missteps by sewing a strong fifty-run collaboration.
Rohit Sharma (51 off 50) and Shubman Gill (40 * off 53) added 72 runs for the opening wicket in 14.2 overs to set the platform for a simple chase.India lost two wickets, Rohit and Virat Kohli (11 ), but were never in difficulty during the run chase as Gill and Ishan Kishan (8 *) took the hosts home in the 21st over.After deciding to bowl initially, Indias relentless rate attack ran through a fragile New Zealand batting line-up.
The Mohammed Shami-led attack produced an incisive effort to bowl out New Zealand inside 35 overs.It was an emphatic win however the sea of fans that had flocked the remotely situated Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Stadium for Raipurs first worldwide game was left wanting for more due to the early finish.Shami (3/18) and Mohammed Siraj (1/10) made life hard for the batters with their high-quality seam bowling lowering New Zealand to a disappointing 15 for 5.
The odd ball stopping made the New Zealand batters task tougher though the Indian openers made batting look simple in the evening.New Zealand opener Finn Allen was the first to leave after missing out on a complete ball that returned in late to clip the pads and shatter the stumps.
Siraj then got one to seam away from excellent length causing an outside edge from number 3 Henry Nicholls with Gill doing the rest in the slips.Two dazzling return catches from Shami and Hardik Pandya (2/16) put New Zealand in more difficulty.
Shami got one to form away and Daryl Mitchell, in his effort to flick it on the on-side, wound up mistiming it back to the bowler.Hardiks one-handed catch to get rid of Devon Conway in the 10th over was mind-blowing.
Shardul Thakur (1/26) got himself into the wicket column in the following over by drawing a thick edge from Tom Lathams bat.
It was a loose shot from the New Zealand skipper, ending with an easy catch to Gill in the slips.New Zealand were in dire straits however all hope was not lost with last matchs centurion Michael Bracewell (22) and the equally harmful Glenn Phillips (36) in the middle.1/ 10Indian bowlers top New Zealand batters in 2nd ODIPreviousNextShow Captions Indian bowlers fired in unison as they bundled out Black Caps for just 108 in 34.3 overs.< p> br/ >> Mohammed Shami shines with the new ball as he returned remarkable figures of 3-18 from his six overs.< p> br/ >> Shamis termination were Finn Allen, Daryl Mitchell and last-match centurion Michael Bracewell.< p> br/ >> The No.
3 bowler in the ODI rankings, Mohammed Siraj yet again came up with a brilliant spell versus the No.
1 ODI group.< p> br/ >> Siraj bowled 6 overs including one maiden over and distributed simply 10 runs with one wicket of Henry Nicholls.< p> br/ >> Hardik showcased his bowling prowess in the powerplay with accurate and disciplined bowling.< p> br/ >> Pandya dismissed New Zealands opener Devon Conway and Mitchell Santner.< p> br/ >> p > Kuldeep Yadav was fantastic with his wrist spin as he took the wicket of a lower-order batter Blair Washington Sundar dismissed dangerous-looking Phillips who was looking promising and towards the end took Fergusons wicket.< p> br/> Bracewell made his intent clear by marching to whack Shami over cover.
After getting hit for successive fours in the 19th over, Shami bowled a sharp bouncer and Bracewell went for the pull only to edge it back to the keeper.Mitchell Santner (27 ), who scored a fifty in Hyderabad, joined Phillips and the duo took the group previous 100 with a 47-run stand for the seventh wicket.
Both were dismissed in an area of 6 balls to end New Zealands hopes of a recovery.While Santner played a well-disguised slower ball from Hardik on to the stumps, Phillips provided a guideline catch to Suryakumar Yadav at deep midwicket off a long hop from Washington Sundar (2/7).
Kuldeep Yadav (1/29) caught number 11 Blair Tickner in front to end the New Zealand innings in 34.3 overs.India were clinical in the run chase with Rohit enthralling the crowd with his trademark pull shots.
Among them chose a 6, the first maximum of the video game, as he hooked Lockie Ferguson over fine-leg.
Fresh from a double hundred in Hyderabad, Gill too came up with some elegant strokes, including a splitting cover drive off Ferguson.The New Zealand pacers stopped working to get as much seam movement as their Indian counterparts, making the task simpler for the batters.Rohit completed his fifty with a single in the 13th over before Shipley had him leg before wicket with a ball that kept low.Virat Kohli got the loudest cheer from the crowd as typical but might only last nine balls as Santner overcame him for the 2nd time in as lots of games.The third and final ODI will be played in Indore on Tuesday.(With inputs from PTI)