India beat New Zealand in 7th ODI of series, 2010

New Zealand was scheduled to play a 7 Match ONE DAY International in India in 2010. 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 3 and 6. The 7th ONE DAY international match was to be played on M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru, India on 7th Dec 2010. India holds the upper hand as they are more balanced team and playing very well as well.

New Zealand won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how New Zealand team and 11 was looking like in this 7th ONE DAY international match: Scott Styris, Kyle Mills, Daryl Tuffey, Jamie How, Ross Taylor (c), Gareth Hopkins (wk), Nathan McCullum, Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, James F, Kane Williamson

And India team and 11 was looking like this in this 7th ONE DAY international Match: Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra, Gautam Gambhir (c), Suresh Raina, S Sreesanth, Munaf Patel, Yusuf Pathan, Virat Kohli, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Ravichandran Ashwin, Murali Vijay.

New Zealand did not batted well and was able to post total of 103 runs in 27 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with top scores of S Styris who made 24 runs in 45 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 53 runs in 100 balls and J How who made 23 runs in 42 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 55 runs in 100 balls.

India was needed to score 104 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

India batted well and was able to chase the target of 104 runs in 21.1 over’s at the loss of 2 wicket and won the game by 8 wickets in hand with top contributions from Y Singh who made 42 runs in 46 balls with 6 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 91 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match 8 wickets in hand and series ends at 7-0 in favor of India.

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