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India beat New Zealand in 1st ODI of series, 2009

India was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International series in New Zealand in 2009. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 2 and 5. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on McLean Park, Napier, New Zealand. India holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

India won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how India team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, Munaf Patel, Praveen Kumar, Yusuf Pathan

 

And New Zealand team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Jacob Oram, Brendon McCullum (wk), Kyle Mills, Daniel Vettori (c), Ross Taylor, Jesse Ryder, Iain O’Brien, Grant Elliott, Neil Broom, Martin Guptill, Ian Butler

 

 

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India batted well and was able to post total of 273 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and with top scores of M S Dhoni who made 84 runs in 89 balls with 6 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 94 runs in 100 balls and V Sehwag who made 77 runs in 56 balls with 11 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 137 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand was needed to score 274 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

India batted well but was unable to chase the target of 274 runs and was only able to make 162 runs in 28 over’s at the loss of 9 wickets and lost the game by 53 runs by D and L Method and with top contributions from M Guptill who made 64 runs in 70 balls with 5 4’s and 0 sixes at the strike rate of 91 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 53 runs and series stands at 1-0 in favor of India with 6 more games to play.

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