• New Zealand won the toss and choose to bowl
• Mayank Aggarwal and Prithvi Shaw make debut at Seddon Park, Hamilton in the First ODI.
• New Zealand beat India by 4 wickets in the 1st ODI.
• Shreyas Iyer (103) scored his 1st ODI hundred.
• Ross Taylor (109) got the Man of the Match Award.
• New Zealand takes lead in the 3 match ODI series by 1 -0.

On Wednesday at Seddon Park, New Zealand beat India by 4 Wickets. New Zealand won the toss and choose to bowl first. But the Indian Batsman performed very well and scored 347 runs in 50 overs with the loss of 4 Wickets. Mayank Aggarwal and Prithvi Shaw who made a debut in the match gave a good start to India and scored 50 runs together for the 1st Wicket. After that India lost their 2 wickets at just 54 runs but Kohli and Iyer did the partnership of 102 Runs and pushes back India into the game. Iyer (105) and Rahul (88)*Scored the 136 runs together for the fourth wicket and push the India team into a good position. Shreyas also scored his 1st ODI Hundred in this match.

In reply, Guptil (32) and Nicholls (78) gave a good start to New Zealand and scored 85 runs together for the first wicket. New Zealand lost their 3 wickets quickly but Ross Taylor (109) played a match-winning inning with Tom Latham (69). Both players scored 138 runs together for the fourth wicket. Due to this New Zealand chased an easily huge target given by India with the 11 balls remaining. New Zealand takes lead in the 3 match ODI series by 1 -0.

Scorecard:

India        – 347 – 4 (50.0 Overs)

Extras – 27 (lb7,b 1,nb 1,w 19, p0)

Did not bat

RavinderJadeja, SN Thakur, Shami, KuldeepYadav, Bumrah

New Zealand                      348 – 6 (48.1 Overs)

Extras – 29 (lb4,b 0, nb1,w 24, p0)

Did not bat

Tim Southee, IshSodhi, Hamish Bennett