Mount Maunganui, Feb 11: A brilliant century by K L Rahul guided India to a total of 296-7 against New Zealand in the third and final ODI of the three match series at the Bay Oval, here on Tuesday.
Hamish Bennett was the most successful bowler with 6/44 for Kiwis while Kyle Jamieson 1/53 and James Neesham 1/50 were the other wicket takers.
Earlier, New Zealand captain Kane Williamson won the toss and invited India to bat. India were off to a horrible start losing opener Mayank Agarwal (1) and skipper Virat Kohli (9) for single-digit scores.
Young opener Prithvi Shaw got off to a good start but got run out. Shaw scored 40 runs from 41 deliveries.
At one point of time, India were struggling at 62-3 but the fourth-wicket 100-run partnership between Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul helped India recover.
Iyer registered his third fifty-plus score in a row before getting out to James Neesham. Rahul got to his half-century later in the innings.
After James Neesham broke the century stand between Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul with the former’s dismissal, India looked in a spot of bother but Manish Pandey came in and steadied India with a strong fifth wicket stand with Rahul.
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