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London: Combined efforts from batsmen and bowlers helped defending champions India beat New Zealand by 45 runs through the Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-hit Champions Trophy warm-up match at the Kennington Oval on Sunday.<\/p>\nLondon: Combined efforts from batsmen and bowlers helped defending champions India beat New Zealand by 45 runs through the Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-hit Champions Trophy warm-up match at the Kennington Oval on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Batting first, New Zealand were bowled out for 189 in 38.4 overs with opener Luke Ronchi (66) and lower order batsman James Neesham (46).<\/p>\n
For India, pacer Mohammed Shami and Bhuneshwar Kumar scalped three wickets each while spinner Ravindra Jadeja took two wickets. Star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and pacer Umesh Yadav chipped in with a wicket each.<\/p>\n
India started their chase on a positive note, but after 26 overs, with 129\/3 on the board, rain played spoilsport and forced the players off the field. But till then, India were well ahead of the D\/L par score of 84, which resulted in their win.<\/p>\n
For India, Shikhar Dhawan (40) and skipper Virat Kohli (52) were the major contributors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
London: Combined efforts from batsmen and bowlers helped defending champions India beat New Zealand by 45 runs through the Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-hit Champions Trophy warm-up match at the Kennington Oval on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Batting first, New Zealand were bowled out for 189 in 38.4 overs with opener Luke Ronchi (66) and lower order batsman James Neesham (46).<\/p>\n
For India, pacer Mohammed Shami and Bhuneshwar Kumar scalped three wickets each while spinner Ravindra Jadeja took two wickets. Star off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and pacer Umesh Yadav chipped in with a wicket each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[22052,6126,4744,4884,466,22277,22276,10664,10058,659],"class_list":["post-34881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket-cricket","tag-bhuneshwar-kumar","tag-champions-trophy","tag-cricket-news","tag-duckworth-lewis","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-james-neesham","tag-kennington-oval","tag-luke-ronchi","tag-mohammed-shami","tag-ravindra-jadeja"],"yoast_head":"\n