New Zealand– Napier (McLean Park): On Tuesday India won a rain-reduced first one-day international against New Zealand by 53 runsyDuckworth-Lewis method.
Indian Captain MS Dhoni Elected to bat after wining the toss, the Virender Sehwag Indian batsman blasted 77 off 56 balls to guide India to 273. Dhoni added 84 by playing a caption innings and Suresh Raina also helped India by 66 runs set a competitive total from 38 overs following a delay of over two hours.
The Duckworth-Lewis method revised target, New Zealand will chase a revised target of 278 off 38 overs. But New Zealand fails to chase finally India win by 53 runs.
New Zealand team caption Vettori said that " Pretty Disappointing result really and some serious lack of execution cost us. We bowled pretty poorly and Raina’s innings, in particular, took the game away from us".
MS Dhoni the Indian team caption said thatIn the T20 games sometimes we go out with all guns blazing, Praveen kumar can swing the ball both ways, he is a streetsmart cricketer and most importantly he knows his limitations well. Overall happy with the result
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the Man of the Match for his captain’s innings of 84. He has donated 500 dollars to a cricket club in NZ. Also he has promised to donate some bats once the tour ends.
India going to take New Zealand on March 6 the second ODI in Wellington.
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