New Zealand beat India to level the series 2-2 in bilateral Series in 1999

New Zealand toured India to play a 5 match One day International series. 4th match of the series was scheduled to play on Nehru Stadium, Guwahati , India on 14th Nov, 1999.

Both teams were playing very good cricket at that time, so it will be very interesting to see them battle in a bilateral series.

India won the toss and opts to bowl first, so New Zealand will bat 1st and will set target for India to chase. This is how Indian Team and 11 was looking like in this 3^rd ODI: Sachin Tendulkar (c), Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly, Anil Kumble, Ajit Agarkar, Robin Singh, Ajay Jadeja, Debasis Mohanty, Mannava Prasad (wk),Nikhil Chopra, Vijay Bharadwaj

And this is how NZ team was looking like in this 3^rd One day International: Stephen Fleming (c), Nathan Astle, Chris Cairns, Scott Styris, Daniel Vettori,Chris Harris, Adam Parore (wk), Roger Twose, Craig Spearman, Alex Tait,Chris Drum

New Zealand batted well and scored 236 runs in 50 over’s after losing 9 wickets with the contributions of Chris C who made 80 runs in 114 balls with 4 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 70 runs in 100 balls and R Twose who made 46 runs in 81 balls with 1 four and 1 six at the strike rate of 57 runs in 100 balls.

India was required to chase 237 runs to win this game and series as well.

Indian started poorly and lost 5 wickets for only 85 runs in 23.4 over’s in the form of Sahin T, Saurav G, Rahul D, Vijay B and Ajay J. And India kept on losing wickets at regular intervals in the game and were bowled out for only 188 runs in 45.3 over’s and only Sunil joshi made 61 runs in 56 balls with 2 4’s and 3 sixes at strike rate of 108 runs in 100 balls.

India lost the match by 48 runs and Chris C was the man of the match for his great knock.

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