India vs New Zealand 2nd ODI: KL Rahul’s brilliant century guides host to 284
Rajkot: India set a 285 target for New Zealand in the 2nd ODI match at Niranjan Shah Stadium in in Rajkot of Gujarat. It is a must win match for the Kiwis.
New Zealand invited India to bat first and skipper Shubhman and Rohit scored 56 runs and 24 runs respectively. With this, Shubhman Gill can be seen coming back to his form after his neck injury due to which he was ruled out of the last ODI series against South Africa.
KL Rahul scored an amazing hundred guiding India to 284 for 7. Virat Kohli who came to bat at number 3 started with a beautiful cover drive which hits the boundry, he contributed 23 runs out of 29 balls before getting bowled out due to wrong shot selection and pitch activity ball couldn’t bounce well.
Washington Sundar has been replaced by Nitish Kumar Reddy due to injury in first ODI match of the series.
New Zealand’s score so far is 111 runs with two wickets gone in just 24 overs with Daryl Mitchell and Will Young batting on the field.
Have a look at the teams:
India: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill (c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Arshdeep Singh, Ayush Badoni, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel.
New Zealand: Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls, Will Young, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Hay (wk), Michael Bracewell (c), Zakary Foulkes, Kristian Clarke, Kyle Jamieson, Adithya Ashok, Jayden Lennox, Nick Kelly, Josh Clarkson, Michael Rae.
