On the same day of attack on Lankan team by an unidentified group at Lahore. Indian beat New Zealand by 53 runs. The match reduced to 38 overs due to shower at Naiper. Sachin and Sehwag went into bat as India won the toss. They shared 69 runs partnership before Sachin departs.
India made 273 runs out of 38 overs.
Solid fifties by Sehwag (77), Dhoni (84) and Raina (66) powered India to 273/4.Sehwag led from the front and smashed his 34th ODI fifty. But soon the opener too gave away his wicket to Daniel Vettori when he was negating the Kiwi attack at 77 and missed on his deserving 11th ODI century. Ross Taylor took a brilliant catch to send the opener back. Yuvraj joined Dhoni when India was on 121 at the loss of two wickets.
Yuvaraj went for 2 runs. After him, Raina joined the party who scored 66 runs from 49 with strike rate of 169.
Bowlers done their jobs well. Praveen Kumar bagged two wickets, Ace spinner Harbhajan Singh's arrival at the pitch ruined the left over hopes of the hosts as he swept away three batsmen - Guptil (64), Broom (2) and Mills (0) in an over to take India closer to victory. Finally India beat by 53 runs.
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