NZ post 301/9 vs India in warm-up

Neil Broom hit a fiery 66 down the order to help New Zealand rattle up 301 for nine against India in a warm-up game ahead of the Champions Trophy here on Sunday. Jesse Ryder and Martin Guptill scored half-centuries at the top to lay the platform for a big total after the Black Caps elected to bat.

India were reeling at 140 for 7 after 29 Shane Bond and Daniel Vettori picked up two wickets each. For India, Rahul Dravid made 37 while Suresh Raina and Dinesh Karthik chipped in with 31 and 20 respectively.

Earlier, Ryder, the left-handed opener, took a heavy toll of new-ball bowler Praveen Kumar and picked up six of the eight fours hit against the right-arm swing bowler. Ryder also smacked Ishant Sharma for a massive six as he clobbered 57 runs from 48 balls with 10 fours and a six. Ryder got good momentum from the other end as Brendon McCullum (15 off 17 balls) and Guptill (63 off 79 balls) also lay about smashing the bowling, bringing up New Zealand’s 150 in the 28th over.

India’s spin duo of leg-spinner Amit Mishra (1-29) and off-spinner Yousuf Pathan (3/46) applied brakes in the middle overs but did not get support from the other bowlers. Broom provided a bigger thrust in the closing overs, hitting 66 from 46 balls with five fours and four sixes. In RP Singh’s eighth over—the penultimate one of the innings, he clobbered 25 runs including three sixes and a four.

BRIEF SCORES: New Zealand 301 for 9 in 50 ovs (N Broom 66, M Guptill 63, J Ryder 57, G Elliott 30; Y Pathan 3-46) vs India 87 for 2 in 18 ovs