IND vs NZ: india scored only 249 runs against New Zealand..!?

india could not even score 250 runs in the match against new zealand after the first three batsmen of the indian team failed. shreyas iyer and Axar patel in the middle order and hardik pandya in the back row helped india score 249 runs. The group stage match of the 2025 Champions Trophy series between india and new zealand was held in Dubai. In this match, the indian team batted first. The first three important wickets fell within 30 runs. Shubman Gill lost the match by scoring 2 runs. Following him, rohit sharma was dismissed for 15 runs and virat kohli for 11 runs, shocking the indian team. After that, the run rate was slow. shreyas iyer and Axar patel stopped the fall of wickets but scored runs calmly. Axar patel did his job well and scored 42 runs and was dismissed.
Shreyas Iyer played brilliantly and scored a half-century. He scored 79 runs and was dismissed. Next, KL Rahul, who came in the sixth order, was dismissed for 23 runs. After that, hardik pandya, who came in the seventh order, and ravindra jadeja, who came in the eighth order, were expected to play an aggressive game together, and the team's score would increase rapidly. But both of them played calmly. ravindra jadeja scored 16 runs in 20 balls and was dismissed in the 46th over. KL After Rahul's dismissal, the plan to add runs quickly in the last four or five overs did not work out to a great extent. mohammed shami and hardik Pandya's 47th over and 48th over only yielded two runs and four runs. In the 49th over, hardik pandya hit two fours and a six. In that over, india scored 15 runs. In the last over, hardik pandya lost the game in the third ball itself without scoring any runs. He had scored 45 runs in 45 balls. shami was also dismissed in the last ball. At the end of 50 overs, india scored only 249 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. The indian team struggled to reach even 250 runs. Will this score alone be enough to win against New Zealand? The biggest question now is. The new zealand team's bowling was excellent. Matt Henry took 5 wickets. Captain Mitchell Santner bowled with consistency and took 1 wicket for 41 runs in 10 overs. Jamieson took 1 wicket for 31 runs in 8 overs. William O'Rourke and Rachin ravindra took 1 wicket each.
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Sowmiya Sriram

02/03/2025 06:27 PM