India beat New Zealand in 5th T 20 of series, 2009

India was scheduled to play a 7 Match T 20 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 5th T 20 international match was to be played on Eden Park, Auckland, 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 bowl first; this is how India team and 11 was looking like in this 5th T 20 international match: Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, R Sharma, MS Dhoni (c & wk), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, H Singh, Praveen Kumar, Yusuf Pathan

And New Zealand team and 11 was looking like this in this 5th T 20 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

New Zealand batted well and was able to post total of 150 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with top scores of Brendon M who made 60 runs in 40 balls with 8 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 150 runs in 100 balls and Jesse R who made 50 runs in 50 balls with 8 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 151 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

India batted well and was able to chase the target of 151 runs in 18.5 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and won the game by 5 wickets in hand and with top contributions from R Sharma who made 60 runs in 50 balls with 5 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 120 runs in 100 balls.

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

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