- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR1.6 Gambhir's gone, middle stump's on the ground, a bit short again from O'Brien, Gambhir was looking to clobber him over midwicket, the ball doesn't bounce as much as he expects and it hits the top of middle 25/13.1 Sehwag's gone, O'Brien's on a hat-trick now, big wicket for New Zealand, Sehwag eyes the short square boundary at midwicket again, misses the ball and it crashes into legstump, O'Brien is over the moon and why not 32/25.2 Rohit's gone, tries to play across the line, gets a leading edge which balloons in the air, Brendon McCullum calls for the catch, he has plenty of time to position himself to take a comfortable catch near gully 54/36.2 Yuvraj's gone! another big blow, New Zealand have the edge now, a quicker arm ball from Vettori, Yuvraj goes for the sweep, misses and is rapped in front on middle 56/47.5 Dhoni's bowled! India are in trouble here, a hint of inward movement from a back of a length ball, Dhoni jumped and tried to defend but that kept lower than he expected and his offstump is rocked back 61/59.4 Yusuf's goes, Jacob Oram does a repeat of Adam Voges' fantastic catch to get rid off Brendon McCullum in Sydney, it was wide outside off and fullish, Yusuf powered that to long-on, it rocketed towards the boundary but Oram manages to catch it just inside the boundary rope, he was going to go across, so he tossed the ball in the air, came back into the field of play, steadied himself and completed the ctach 82/613.3 that's the end of Irfan, soft dismissal, Irfan opened the face of the bat to run it down to third man, gets too much off the ball and it flies at a nice, catchable height to Nathan McCullum at backward point 101/719.6 bowled him, Harbhajan tries a cute paddle again but he's undone by an on-target yorker from Southee, middle stump is left lying on the ground 162/8Extras6 (lb 3, w 3)TOTAL162/8 (20 Overs, RR: 8.1)Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Gautam Gambhir, 1.6 ov), 2-32 (Virender Sehwag, 3.1 ov), 3-54 (Rohit Sharma, 5.2 ov), 4-56 (Yuvraj Singh, 6.2 ov), 5-61 (MS Dhoni, 7.5 ov), 6-82 (Yusuf Pathan, 9.4 ov), 7-101 (Irfan Pathan, 13.3 ov), 8-162 (Harbhajan Singh, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB TG Southee 4 0 42 1 10.50 9 2 4 0 0 IE O'Brien 4 0 36 2 9.00 9 2 3 0 0 IG Butler 4 0 29 2 7.25 10 1 2 1 0 DL Vettori 4 0 18 1 4.50 13 0 1 2 0 NL McCullum 2 0 27 1 13.50 3 1 3 0 0 JD Ryder 2 0 7 1 3.50 6 0 0 0 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR1.1 but not as great as Ishant's first ball, he gets Ryder lbw, that was on a length, Ryder tries to flick it off his pads, misses and is struck in front of leg and middle, Hawkeye says that was pitching outside leg, Ryder's unlucky there 2/16.4 Guptill's gone lbw, Harbhajan drops it a touch short, Guptill gets on the backfoot and tries to play across the line, he misses and the ball strikes his pad in front of middle and leg 56/213.2 Taylor's bowled, he had walked across the stumps giving Zaheer a sight of the legstump, the bowler targets it and hits the base of legstump 106/3Extras8 (nb 3, w 5)TOTAL166/3 (18.5 Overs, RR: 8.81)Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Jesse Ryder, 1.1 ov), 2-56 (Martin Guptill, 6.4 ov), 3-106 (Ross Taylor, 13.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Z Khan 4 0 20 1 5.00 15 3 0 1 0 I Sharma 4 0 35 1 8.75 9 3 1 0 3 IK Pathan 3 0 38 0 12.66 6 2 4 0 0 Harbhajan Singh 4 0 19 1 4.75 11 0 1 0 0 YK Pathan 2.5 0 37 0 13.05 5 1 4 1 0 Yuvraj Singh 1 0 17 0 17.00 1 1 1 1 0
Match Details
Toss
New Zealand , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
New Zealand led the 2-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
19.00 start, First Session 19.00-20.20, Interval 20.20-20.40, Second Session 20.40-22.00
Match days
25 February 2009 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Match Notes
- India: 50 runs in 5.1 overs (31 balls), Extras 2
- India: 100 runs in 12.6 overs (80 balls), Extras 4
- SK Raina: 50 off 38 balls (1 x 4, 5 x 6)
- India: 150 runs in 18.5 overs (116 balls), Extras 6
- 8th Wicket: 50 runs in 34 balls (SK Raina 36, Harbhajan Singh 12, Ex 2)
- Innings Break: India - 162/8 in 20.0 overs (SK Raina 61)
- New Zealand: 50 runs in 5.4 overs (38 balls), Extras 4
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 30 balls (BB McCullum 9, MJ Guptill 39, Ex 3)
- New Zealand: 100 runs in 11.4 overs (75 balls), Extras 5
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 39 balls (BB McCullum 18, LRPL Taylor 31, Ex 1)
- Attendance: 16,225
- New Zealand: 150 runs in 17.5 overs (113 balls), Extras 8
- BB McCullum: 50 off 46 balls (2 x 4, 3 x 6)
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 30 balls (BB McCullum 25, JDP Oram 23, Ex 3)
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