{"id":57816,"date":"2026-11-04T20:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57816"},"modified":"2026-11-04T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T14:16:40","slug":"india-beat-new-zealand-by-five-wickets-in-rain-affected-first-odi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/india-beat-new-zealand-by-five-wickets-in-rain-affected-first-odi\/","title":{"rendered":"India beat New Zealand by five wickets in rain-affected first ODI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Agency, Nov 4: India began their five-match ODI series against New Zealand with a five-wicket victory in the opening match on Wednesday, taking a 1-0 lead in the series.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing an initial target of 185, India were 54 for one in 10.5 overs when rain interrupted play. Following the interruption, the revised target under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method was set at 143 in 32 overs. India comfortably reached the target in 22.3 overs, losing five wickets in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Virat Kohli led India&#8217;s chase with an impressive half-century, scoring 74 off 51 balls, including 13 fours and a six. Captain Shubman Gill contributed 37 runs, while Shreyas Iyer added 15.<\/p>\n<p>For New Zealand, Jacob Duffy was the pick of the bowlers, claiming three wickets for 49 runs in his seven overs. Kyle Jamieson and Nathan Smith took one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, after being put in to bat at Eden Park, New Zealand were bowled out for 185 in 40.2 overs. Tim Seifert top-scored with 38 runs, while Blair Tickner contributed 34, Glenn Phillips scored 30, and Daryl Mitchell added 28. Jacob Duffy remained unbeaten on 15.<\/p>\n<p>For India, Arshdeep Singh was the leading wicket-taker with four wickets for 70 runs in his 10 overs. Harshit Rana claimed three wickets, while Anshul Kamboj picked up two.<\/p>\n<p>The second ODI between the two sides is scheduled for Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Nov 4: India began their five-match ODI series against New Zealand with a five-wicket victory in the opening match on Wednesday, taking a 1-0 lead in the series. Chasing an initial target of 185, India were 54 for one in 10.5 overs when rain interrupted play. Following the interruption, the revised target under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57818,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57816\/revisions\/57818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}