New Zealand are doing what other teams so far have failed to do against the Indian team, tackling Indian spinners beautifully in the middle order and not allowing them to set in and take wickets.
Indians are surely missing 6th bowling option today but that's a test you have to pass when Pandaya is not around. Rachin is turning out to be a fantastic find for the Kiwis.
Indian fielding today has been the worst. Spinners are struggling to get wickets, whereas they were unstoppable with other teams. The Newzealand team has now a run rate of above 5 they still have 9 overs left. They have lost 4 wickets but Mitchell is still batting on 102. They need 70 more ru s to get to 300 which would be a good target to defend.
New Zealand 273 All Out at the end of 50 Overs. Daryl Mitchell Genius of an Innings 130 runs in 127 Balls One Man Show. Muhammad Shami Brilliant figures as he played his first match today. Muhammad Shami picked up 5 wickets haul amazing fast bowling performance by giving 54 runs in 10 Overs. New Zealand Scored a good total of 273 runs, courtesy of a formidable 159-run partnership between Rachin Ravindra and Daryl Mitchell. India bowlers picked 6 wickets in the final six overs. India have strong batting line they need 274 runs to win and easly win this match.
The next innings started in a few moments and the New Zealand team couldn’t reach 300 but no problem because they also did very well scores. The New Zealand team has fear of Rohit Sharma because in previous matches he made very good runs. I think that New Zealand can chase 300 if Kane Williamson plays in today's match but sadly he can’t take place in playing 11 because of a thumb injury.
I think that if India wins today’s match so the player of the match is Muhammad Shami because he took five wickets haul and the others just took one or a maximum of two.
India may win yet another match of the World Cup and New Zealand will lose for the first time in this World Cup tournament. New Zealand set a target of only 273 runs against India. It is not easy to win any match in this world cup tournament unless you score 300 plus runs. Dharamshala's boundary is small enough and the outfield is fast enough that it will not be difficult for India to collect 274 runs. The game ended in 5 overs in the second innings where India scored 32 runs without losing a wicket. For New Zealand to win at this low capital, they must lose three or four wickets in the power play, although this is a tough task for the New Zealand bowlers, but they must do it if they want to win.
India is the only team in this World Cup who have not lost a match so far.Today they won by four wickets against New Zealand which helped them move to the top of the points table today.One thing I noticed is that all the batsmen of India are now in their best form and giving their best game which is one of the reason behind their World Cup win.Before the start of the World Cup, Indian hard hitter batsman Rohit Sharma was out of form but he has come to the World Cup at the right time and is in form.The way India have been winning every match and giving the best game, it looks like they will win this World Cup no doubt.