Tuesday, January 8, 2019

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India made a couple of changes to their playing eleven – Vinod Kambli and Utpal Chatterjee made way for Sanjay Manjrekar and Aashish Kapoor. New Zealand made no changes to theirs. Mohammad Azharuddin, India’s skipper, won the toss, inserting the visitors.

Mark Greatbatch, who faced four balls, scored a couple. He was caught by Sachin Tendulkar. Manoj, the player of the match, broke the 12-run P(rabhak)artnership. Martin Crowe, who faced a dozen balls, scored a couple. He was trapped leg before wicket by Prabhakar, who broke the 10-run stand.

Stephen Fleming, who faced three balls, scored three. He was caught by Nayan Mongia. Javagal Srinath broke the 15-run stand. Roger Twose, who faced 22 balls, scored five. Venkatesh Prasad broke the 20-run stand. Chris Cairns, who faced a dozen balls, scored four. Anil Kumble broke the 12-run stand.

Nathan Astle, whose 86-ball innings included five boundaries, scored 59. He was trapped leg before wicket by Tendulkar, who broke the 27-run stand. Shane Thomson, who faced 59 balls, scored 14. He was caught by Srinath. Prabhakar broke the 16-run stand.

Lee Germon, New Zealand’s skipper, faced 26 balls, scoring nine. He was caught by Mongia. Prabhakar broke the 11-run stand. The ninth-wicket pair didn’t open its account. Dion Nash, who faced a ball, didn’t get off the mark. He was trapped leg before wicket by Prabhakar.

Larsen, whose 28-ball (Gav)innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 20. He was caught by Mongia. Srinath broke the 22-run stand. Danny Morrison, who faced seven balls, scored a couple. He was unbeaten.

India conceded 25 extras. The Kiwis were dismissed for 145 off 44.1 overs. Kapoor bowled 10 wicketless overs, including a maiden. He conceded 27. Tendulkar bowled four overs, conceding 15. He picked up a wicket.

Kumble and Prasad bowled half-a-dozen overs each, picking up a wicket apiece. While the former conceded 16, the latter conceded 14. Srinath bowled 8.1 overs, including a maiden. He conceded 26, picking up two wickets. Prabhakar bowled 10 overs, conceding 33. He picked up five scalps.

Prabhakar, who faced a dozen balls, scored just one. He was trapped leg before wicket by Nash, who broke the two-run stand. Navjot Singh Sidhu, whose 22-ball innings included a boundary, scored eight. He was caught by Fleming. Cairns broke the 23-run stand.

Tendulkar, whose 51-ball innings included four boundaries, scored 39. He was caught by Germon. Thomson broke the 40-run stand. The fourth-wicket pair wasn’t in seventh heaven. Azharuddin, who faced 37 balls, scored 17. He was run out.

Manjrekar, whose 78-ball innings included five boundaries, scored 44. He was unbeaten, as was Jadeja, who scored 26. His 66-ball innings included a couple of boundaries. New Zealand conceded 11 extras. India, who scored 146 for the loss of four wickets off 43.4 overs, won by six wickets with 38 balls to spare.

Twose bowled four wicketless balls, conceding three. Astle bowled four wicketless overs, conceding nine. Morrison bowled half-a-dozen wicketless overs, conceding 20. Larsen bowled 10 wicketless overs, including three maidens. He conceded 23.

Nash bowled half-a-dozen overs, including a maiden. He conceded 17, picking up a wicket. Cairns bowled seven overs, conceding 33. He picked up a wicket. Thomson bowled 10 overs, including a maiden. He conceded 38, picking up a wicket.

The six-match series was level at 1-1.

This was the second (and final) One-day International played in Amritsar. The Indians won both.




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