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India beat New Zealand in 2nd 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 2nd 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 2nd 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 2nd 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

 

India batted well and was able to post total of 290 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and with top scores of V Sehwag who made 94 runs in 80 balls with 6 4’s and 4 six at the strike rate of 117 runs in 100 balls and G Gambhir who made 70 runs in 50 balls with 10 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 140 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand was needed to score 291 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

India batted well but was unable to chase the target of 291 runs and was only able to make 240 runs in 48.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 50 runs and with top contributions from J Oram who made 65 runs in 50 balls with 5 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 130 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 50 runs and series stands at 2-0 in favor of India with 5 more games to play.

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