Before posting the line below; India finished the match on the 1st ball of the 44th over and won the match with eight wickets. Now India is leading the series with 2-0.
Match Report at 40th Over of Indian Innings:
India is sailing along to an easy victory in the second ODI at the end of 40 overs of their innings. India is very well placed at 240/2.
Chasing a target of 259; Indian openers provided a relatively good start of 87 runs when Murali Vijay failed to play Vettori’s delivery that bang on his stamps. But the brilliant innings by Captain Gautam Gambhir and 1st ODI centurion Virat Kohli negated the hopes of black caps victory. Gautam Gambhir made his eights century in the process and playing even more freely after having a ton under his belt. Presently he is playing on 130 off 106 balls, smashing 18 boundaries, along with Yuvraj Singh who came to bat after Virat Kohli innings ended on the total score of 203. He made brilliant 64 off 73 balls. Captain Gambhir now to finish it as soon as possible and Kiwi bowlers are being punished in the process.
Earlier India won the toss and elected to field in th Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur. Fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth grabbed four wickets as India kept New Zealand down to 258-8 in the second one-day international in Jaipur on Wednesday.
Martin Guptill top-scored with a dour 70 and Scott Styris hit 59 off 54 balls after the Black Caps were sent in to bat in the day-night match at the Sawai Man Singh stadium.
Sreesanth removed Styris and skipper Daniel Vettori (31) off successive balls in the 46th over, after the pair had put on a quickfire 58 for the fifth wicket.
Nathan McCullum prevented a hat-trick as New Zealand recovered from a middle-order slump to smash 88 runs in the last 11 overs.
India is leading the five-match series 1-0, having won the first game in Guwahati on Sunday by 40 runs.
Guptill and Kane Williamson (29) put on 50 for the second wicket after Jamie How had been dismissed by Sreesanth in the fourth over.
Guptill, who opened the innings, crawled to his half-century in the 30th over.
The Black Caps opted for the batting powerplay in the 35th over, with the total at 137-3, and took advantage of the field restrictions to hit 33 runs in the next five overs.
Guptill fell in controversial circumstances when Indian umpire Sanjay Hazare declared him caught behind off Ravichandran Ashwin even as the wicket-keeper appealed for a stumping.
New Zealand were without the injured duo of Brendon McCullum and Daryl Tuffey, but Vettori was back after missing the first game with a back injury.
Gautam Gambhir led India in the absence of regular captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has been rested for the series along with other senior players including Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh.
Martin Guptill top-scored with a dour 70 and Scott Styris hit 59 off 54 balls after the Black Caps were sent in to bat in the day-night match at the Sawai Man Singh stadium.
Sreesanth removed Styris and skipper Daniel Vettori (31) off successive balls in the 46th over, after the pair had put on a quickfire 58 for the fifth wicket.
Nathan McCullum prevented a hat-trick as New Zealand recovered from a middle-order slump to smash 88 runs in the last 11 overs.
India is leading the five-match series 1-0, having won the first game in Guwahati on Sunday by 40 runs.
Guptill and Kane Williamson (29) put on 50 for the second wicket after Jamie How had been dismissed by Sreesanth in the fourth over.
Guptill, who opened the innings, crawled to his half-century in the 30th over.
The Black Caps opted for the batting powerplay in the 35th over, with the total at 137-3, and took advantage of the field restrictions to hit 33 runs in the next five overs.
Guptill fell in controversial circumstances when Indian umpire Sanjay Hazare declared him caught behind off Ravichandran Ashwin even as the wicket-keeper appealed for a stumping.
New Zealand were without the injured duo of Brendon McCullum and Daryl Tuffey, but Vettori was back after missing the first game with a back injury.
Gautam Gambhir led India in the absence of regular captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who has been rested for the series along with other senior players including Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh.
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