Live Updates of India Vs. New Zealand Compaq Cup 2009!
With a defeat by the host in the very first match, now Kiwis are really under pressure. They need to defeat Team India in the match which is scheduled today at 2:30 PM IST. On the other hand Team India is looking a bit morally down due to the injury to the regular opener Gautam Gambhir.
Other dashing opener Virender Sehwag is already out of the tournament, thus huge pressure is building up on the middle order which has the likes of Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, and skipper MS Dhoni. The concern is who is going to open the innings with Sachin?
The match will begin at 2:30 PM IST.
Team composition is like this:
India: Sachin Tendulkar, Dinesh Karthik, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, RP Singh, Ashish Nehra, and Ishant Sharma.
New Zealand: Ryder, Branden McCullum, Guptill, Taylor, Elliott, Oram, Broom, Vettori, Mills, Butler, and Bond.
Kiwis skipper Daniel Vettori won the toss and he elected to bat first. Although he has a view that toss is no way going to affect the result of the match. Dhoni seems satisfied with the toss.
What a blow to Kiwis Ryder departs in the very first over. Nehra sent him back to the pavilion.
Another blow to Kiwis by Nehra only, McCullum departs after making only 3 runs. Kiwis are under pressure now with both the openers back in the pavilion.
Another blow to Kiwis, this time it is RP Singh who dismissed Taylor. New Zealand are really under huge pressure now.
Yuvraj Singh strikes this time, in his very first over he dismissed dangerous looking Guptill. Kiwis are four down now.
Yuvraj Singh once again strikes, this time it is Elliott, yuvi took the second wicket. Skipper Dhoni has much faith on him as a bowler, while Kiwis are now five wicket down.
Finally Kiwis scored 100 runs and just after they lost the wicket of Jacob Oram. He was dismissed by Ishant Sharma.
Yuvraj Singh once again strikes and took his third wicket, Kiwis are now 7 wickets down. India is well set to knock them out.
Eighth wicket of the New Zealand is down, thanks to RP Singh, he took his second wicket and Mills is back in the pavilion now.
Vettori departs after playing a fantastic knock of 25 runs, he was bowled by Ishant Sharma. Kiwis are now 9 wickets down.
That’s the end of the Kiwis innings and they any how managed to make 155 runs. It’s now almost impossible for them to reach to the finals of the tournament. Though batting under lights will also not be so easy to the Team India, but still with a strong battling line up we can predict an Indian victory here.
Here we goes, Team India won the match comfortably and thus reached to the finals of the Compaq Cup 2009. Thus Kiwis are out of the tournament and it is because Sachin Tendulkar played a brilliant knock, while Raina and Dhoni too displayed superb batting and brought victory for Team India. Now India and Sri Lanka will play the third and the last league match tomorrow which is more or less a practice match only.
Live Score: India won the match by 6 wickets!
India 156/4 (40.3 Overs) MS Dhoni 35*, Suresh Raina 45*, Yuvraj Singh 8, Sachin Tendulkar 46, Rahul Dravid 14, Dinesh Karthik 4, Extras 4.
New Zealand: 155 (46.3 Overs) Shane Bond 10*, Ian Butler 6, Daniel Vettori 25, Kyle Mills 6, Neil Broom 21, Jacob Oram 24, Elliott 22, Guptill 22, Taylor 11, McCullum 3, Ryder 0, Extras 5.