New Zealand beat India in 7th 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 7th ONE DAY 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 bat first; this is how India team and 11 was looking like in this 7th ONE DAY international match: Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, R Sharma, 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 7th 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 poorly and was able to post total of only 149 runs in 36.3 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of R Sharma who made 43 runs in 74 balls with 1 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 58 runs in 100 balls and V Sehwag who made 40 runs in 27 balls with 3 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 148 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand was needed to score 150 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

New Zealand batted well and was able to chase the target of 150 runs in 23.2 over’s at the loss of 2 wickets and won the game by 8 wickets and with top contributions from Jesse R who made 63 runs in 49 balls with 6 4’s and 4 sixes at the strike rate of 129 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand won the match by 8 wickets in hand and series ends at 6-1 in favor of India.

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