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ICC World Cup 2023: Mitchell’s ton help Kiwis setup a 274-run target for India

ICC World Cup 2023: Mitchell's ton help Kiwis setup a 274-run target for India

New Zealand scored 273 runs in 50 overs. Daryl Mitchell amassed 130 runs from 127 balls. Mohammad Shami bagged 5 wickets. After winning the toss, India decided to bat first against New Zealand in the 21st match of the ICC World Cup 2023 at the HCPA Stadium, Dharamsala. The Kiwis struggled at the start of … Read more

ICC World Cup 2023: India won the toss and decided to bowl first against New Zealand

ICC World Cup 2023: India won the toss and decided to bowl first against New Zealand

India won the toss and decided to bowl first against New Zealand in the 21st match of the ICC World Cup 2023 at the HPCA Stadium, Dharamsala. The Men in Blue and the Kiwis both have not lost any match so far. New Zealand stands at the top of the points table with 8 points … Read more

Kiwi spinner Ajaz gets 14-for but India on brink of victory

India vs New Zealand

India need another five wickets to win the second Test as New Zealand chase an improbable 540 despite the Kiwis’ Mumbai-born Ajaz Patel returning a record 14-225 on Sunday. New Zealand ended day three on 140-5 after the hosts declared their second innings, after left-arm spinner Ajaz, who took 10 wickets in an innings, put … Read more

Ton-up Agarwal helps India to 221-4 after Patel’s four wickets

India vs New Zealand

Mayank Agarwal hit an unbeaten 120 to lead India’s fightback on the opening day of the second Test after Mumbai-born New Zealand spinner Ajaz Patel took all four wickets to fall. India reached 221 for four at stumps with Agarwal and wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha, on 25, in the middle after the hosts elected to bat … Read more

India face welcome dilemma with return of skipper Kohli

Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli will return to lead India in the second Test against top-ranked New Zealand on Friday, posing a welcome selection dilemma for the hosts. The Mumbai clash will mark Kohli’s return after he stepped down as Twenty20 captain at the end of the World Cup last month and took a short break. Shreyas Iyer’s … Read more

Stuff of dreams: Ravindra New Zealand’s new Test hero

Rachin Ravindra

Rachin Ravindra became an unlikely hero for New Zealand with solid defence and the ability to soak in the pressure in his debut Test, and has been hailed as an all-round package. The 22-year-old stood firm with the lower order and finished with Ajaz Patel in a final-wicket stand that survived the final session’s 52 … Read more

Ravindra helps New Zealand pull off dramatic draw in first India Test

India vs New Zealand

Debutant Rachin Ravindra worked with New Zealand’s lower order to pull off a dramatic draw against India after they ended day five on 165-9 while chasing 284 in the first Test on Monday. New Zealand faltered after overnight batsman Tom Latham (52) and later skipper Kane Williamson (24) departed, but still denied India a win … Read more

India strike early after setting NZ 284 in first Test

India vs New Zealand

India set New Zealand 284 runs to win after a lower order fightback from the Kiwi demolition of the hosts’ top batters on the fourth day of the first Test on Sunday. Ravichandran Ashwin then took the first Black Caps wicket in the day’s penultimate over when Will Young fell leg-before for 2 in unfortunate … Read more

Iyer guides India to solid 258-4 in smoggy New Zealand Test

Ind vs NZ

Shreyas Iyer’s unbeaten 75 on debut steadied India after an afternoon wobble to end the opening day of the first Test looking comfortable at 258-4. Iyer shared an unfinished 113-run partnership with all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja who made a busy 50 off 100 balls, in the heavily polluted industrial city of Kanpur. Iyer, the last specialist … Read more

Injured Indian opener Rahul out of New Zealand series

KL Rahul

India’s opening batsman K.L. Rahul has been ruled out of the two-Test series against New Zealand due to injury, the cricket board said Tuesday. Rahul, who has scored 2,321 runs from 40 Test matches, will be replaced by rookie Suryakumar Yadav, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said in a news release ahead of the first Test … Read more

India rout New Zealand by 73 runs to sweep T20 series

India rout New Zealand by 73 runs to sweep T20 series

India’s Rohit Sharma and Axar Patel starred in Kolkata Sunday as the hosts routed World Cup runners-up New Zealand by 73 runs to make a clean-sweep of the T20 series. Spinner Patel triggered the New Zealand batting collapse in the third over with two wickets to push the steep 185 to win target beyond their … Read more

India seal T20 series win over New Zealand

Rohit Sharma

India cruised to a second straight victory over World Cup runners-up New Zealand on Friday, giving new coach Rahul Dravid and new T20 captain Rohit Sharma their first series win. Set 154 in front of a packed crowd in Ranchi, India crossed the line in the 18th over having lost only three wickets, going some … Read more

Ind vs NZ: India opt to bowl in second New Zealand T20

India opt to bowl in second New Zealand T20

Ind vs NZ: India won the toss and put World Cup runners-up New Zealand into bat in the second Twenty20 international in Ranchi on Friday. India made one change after cruising to victory in the first match of the three-match series on Wednesday, with Harshal Patel replacing the injured Mohammed Siraj. The visitors made three … Read more