New Zealand wins the 5th ODI & India win series.

5th ODI: India vs. New Zealand 

New Zealand wins the 5th ODI, by 8 wickets at Eden Park in Auckland.

Match Review

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat in the fifth and final One-Day International against New Zealand which was reduced to 43 overs due to rain in Auckland.

In the 5th ODI India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat first.

Sehwag had given a nice start, he  hit two sixes over the covers in Kyle Mills balls, but later Kyle Mills had something to smile about when he had Gambhir (5) caught behind by wicket keeper Peter McGlashan. India lost their first wicket in the fifth over in the form of Gautam Gambhir to be at 30/1

Both Sehwag and Raina were given a life each when Ross Taylor dropped a simple catch at first slip when Sehwag was on 34 in the eighth over and in the next over, Brendon McCullum failed to hold on to a chance offered by Raina at backward point when he was on 7.

India lost their second wicket with 65 runs on the board when Suresh Raina went for a needless shot off Oram. 

Raina gifted his wicket away when he hit high up in the air for Scott Styris to take a good catch running backwards at mid-on. It was a needless shot because Sehwag was going great guns at the other end. 

Jacob Oram got the prized wicket of Virender Sehwag when the opener tried to pull across thee line but edged it over backward point for Brendon McCullum to take the catch. Sehwag romped to 40 off 27 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 3 fours before his dismissal.

Ryder took his first wicket when he had Yuvraj (11) caught behind by wicket keeper Peter McGlashan to put India at 88/4 in 18.5.

Ryder clean bowled India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (9) and Yusuf Pathan (0) in one over to rattle India. Both Dhoni and Pathan were trying to accelerate the scoring and in the process lost their wickets.

India were already rattled by Jesse Ryder who took three wickets to reduce the visitors to 111/6 in 25 overs.

This was the second run out of the Indian innings as Harbhajan Singh too sacrificed his wicket after refusing the second run but Rohit kept on running.

India lost their eighth wicket when Zaheer Khan sacrificed his wicket for Rohit Sharma and was run out.

India lost their nineth wicket when Praveen kumar was caught by Peter McGlashanin in the ball of Iain O'Brien for 6runs(12 balls), and India lost its fineal wicket of Ishant Sharma when he was caught by Ross Taylor in the ball of Iain O'Brien, he had made 3r of 7 balls.

The Indian players have performed very badly in this match, except Virender Sehwag (40r / 27b) and Rohit Sharma (43r / 74b) 

Indian were all out for149 in just 36.3 overs,

Indian score card

Gautam Gambhir c Peter McGlashan b Kyle Mills 5r / 16b                                                                       Virender Sehwag c Brendon McCullum b Jacob Oram 40r / 27b                                                             Suresh Raina c Scott Styris b Jacob Oram 8r / 19b                                                                                   Rohit Sharma not out 43r / 74b                                                                                                                 Yuvraj Singh c Peter McGlashan b Jesse Ryder 11r / 24b                                                                         MS Dhoni (W & C) b Jesse Ryder 9r / 21b                                                                                                 Yusuf Pathan b Jesse Ryder 0r / 4b                                                                                                             Harbhajan Singh run out Daniel Vettori 1r / 6b                                                                                             Zaheer Khan run out Jacob Oram 5r / 10b                                                                                                   Praveen kumar c Peter McGlashan b Iain O'Brien 6r / 12b                                                                       Ishant Sharma c Ross Taylor b Iain O'Brien 3r / 7b

New Zeland's Batting :

New Zeland's Batting start was not so good as Praveen Kumar dismissed Brendon McCullum in the third over to put New Zealand at 9/1. 

McCullum (2) charged down the pitch, went for the big hit, missed and was clean bowled to give India the first breakthrough

India captain  needlessly took the bowling powerplay as Ryder and Martin Guptill brought up their 50-run partnership off 45 balls and Ryder reached his 2nd ODI fifty off 38 balls with a six off  Ishant over square leg.

Ishant, who had been hit for a flurry of boundaries by Ryder, had the last laugh when the opener edged a delivery onto his stumps. 

Ishant had earlier ended Jesse Ryder's blazing knock to put New Zealand at 97/2 in 15 overs.

Ryder had put the Kiwis on the path of victory by smashing 4 sixes and 6 fours enroute a 49-ball 63.

The Kiwis raced to the paltry victory target of 150 runs in 23.2 overs with Martin Guptill and Ross Taylor remaining not out on 57 and 28 respectively. 

Guptill got to his 3rd ODI 50 with a six off Ishant Sharma over mid-wicket. Guptill hit 2 sixes and 7 fours in his 50-ball knock.

New Zealand beat India by 8 wickets  in the fifth ODI at  in Auckland on Saturday to restore some pride, as India won the series 3-1.