India vs New Zealand | Williamson ton takes Kiwis to first win of India tour

Brief Scores: New Zealand 242/9 in 50 overs (Williamson 118(128), Latham 46(46), Bumrah 3/35, Mishra 3/60) beat India 236 all out in 49.3 overs (Kedar Jadhav 41(37), MS Dhoni 39(65), Southee 3/52)

Virat Kohli joined Ajinkya Rahane at the crease but his stay was short-lived. Kohli tried to flick a Santner delivery down to fine leg, but the ball caught an edge off the bat and with Ronchi's quick catch, Kohli made his way back to the dressing room.

In the very next over, Manish Pandey made things even more difficult for India when he tried to steal a run that wasn't there for the taking. Santner came up with a perfect throw after making a quick dash from square leg, and Ronchi made no mistake as Pandey was more than a few inches short of his crease.

Dhoni and Jadhav settle the middle order

Dhoni found it difficult to get easy runs as the Kiwis piled the pressure not allowing any singles. His stand came to an end when he mistimed his shot and Southee took a brilliant catch changing direction quickly catching the ball with one hand inches above the ground. 

The next man in was Pandya, who joined Axar Patel at the crease, but the latter was sent back in the next over by Guptill for a score of 17 off 22 balls. Mishra didn't fare any better as a top edge of Guptill's last ball ended in the hands of Bracewell to take India's score to 183/8.

When Pandya and Yadav came to the crease, India required 59 off 9 overs. The duo's partnership of 49 runs brought the Indians close to the target. With two overs to go, India required just 16, and when Pandya scored five off the first two balls, India's hopes of taking a 2-0 lead in the series were reignited.

But the loss of Pandya, who edged a Boult ball to deep extra cover with eight balls to go, put an end to India's hopes. Southee gave Bumrah a taste of his own medicine with a perfect yorker to disloge the bails and give the Kiwis their first win of the tour.

Earlier, New Zealand got off to the worst possible start when Martin Guptill was sent back to the pavilion by Umesh Yadav. In just the second ball of the match, the pacer came up with an absolute peach of a delivery that bounced on middle and off and moved a little to clip the outside of the off stump.

But, Tom Latham and Kane Williamson steadied the innings with a partnership of 120 with Latham scoring at a rate of a run-a-ball. New Zealand could have been in a host of trouble had Pandya played his part in a chance given by Willaimson when he was at 46. However, the all-rounder was unable to get his fingers under the ball, when Williamson's mistimed shot fell just short of the Baroda youngster.

Corey Anderson's stay at the crease was also short-lived as he too was unable to read Mishra's bowling variations and found himself caught LBW at the score of 21.

Williamson, who had been criticized for his performance during the tour, kept on rotating the strike while still getting a boundary here and there. The Kiwi captain completed his first century of the tour, but a mistimed shot, while trying to increase the run rate, ended up in the hands of Rahane at long-off. As the crowd gave him a standing ovation, the scorecard read 213/5, out of which Williamson had accumulated 118.