Vengeance as they say is a meal best served cold and on a chilly Auckland night, New Zealand safeguarded a total of 273 by limiting India to 251 in 48.3 overs taking an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.
New Zealand’s 6 foot 8 inch debutant Kyle Jamieson (2/42 and 25 off 24 balls) got the ‘Gamer of the Match’ award for his overall show.
Tim Southee despite running temperature level (2/41 in 10 overs) was dazzling with the brand-new ball as his incutter got rid of Virat Kohli but it was poor shot selection from a set Shreyas Iyer (52) and Kedar Jadhav (9) in the middle overs did expense India very much after the inexperienced set of Mayank Agarwal and Prithvi Shaw had a 2nd successive poor day.
