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India vs New Zealand,4th ODI: Jimmy Neesham breaks Ranchi’s heart, cleans up MS Dhoni for 11

MS Dhoni playing at home town is yet to display his heroics with the bat for India at Ranchi.

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MS Dhoni departed for 11 © AFP (file photo)

Indian skipper MS Dhoni disappointed his home fans getting out for just 11 runs. Dhoni came out to bat after the fall of Virat Kohli’s wicket with India 98 for 2. Dhoni added 11 runs in 31 balls, had two partnerships in the innings. India set a target of 261 runs were helped by Ajinkya Rahane and Kohli. Jimmy Neesham broke the local fans heart getting Dhoni’s wicket in the 29th over. Neeshan bowled a fuller delivery to which Dhoni went for a full fledged drive. The ball missed the bat completed and rattled the stumps. LIVE CRICKET SCORECARD: India vs New Zealand, 4th ODI at Ranchi

Chasing 261 runs, Rohit and Rahane came out to bat for India. Rohit had made scores of 14,15,13, and 11 in the four matches he has played so far coming at an average of 12.50. Rohit was dismissed by Tim Southee to a peach of a delivery. Southee kept the ball on the outside off stump line to and continued asking questions of him. Hero of the last match Virat Kohli made a fluent 45 off 51 balls. Kohli was looking good for his 13th ODI half-century. Kohli fell to Ish Sodhi. Sodhi bowled a wide off line and got Kohli to edge the ball to BJ Watling.

In the ongoing limited-overs series, New Zealand batted first thrice, eventually defending the total only once. Dhawal Kulkarni, who replaced the injured Jasprit Bumrah, leaked 37 runs off his first four overs.  In fact, openers Tom Latham and Martin Guptill did exactly the same. The duo blasted 80 runs in the first 10 overs. Guptill reached his 18th half-century and looked good for a big score. However, as fate may have it, star of the first ODI — Hardik Pandya — used his stock delivery to end Guptill’s innings on 72. Stalwart Ross Taylor joined Williamson in the middle and added 46 runs for the third wicket.

Wickets tumbled one after another and New Zealand could churn out only 260 runs on the scoreboard. What seemed like a big total was reduced to a below-par one. Credit goes to the Indian bowling unit, for they performed well in tandem even at crucial juncture.

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