New Zealand were unable to defend their total of 134, with wet conditions in Wellington having reduced game two to a maximum 47 overs each and made batting conditions treacherous.<\/p>\n
India were 113-7 off 26 overs when rain ended play, four runs ahead of the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern par score of 109.<\/p>\n
KL Rahul was at the crease on 26 and Auqib Nabi on one, with the pair having done just enough to put the tourists in front.<\/p>\n
They require one more win to wrap up the five-match series, heading into game three in Hamilton on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
India won the rain-hit opener in Auckland by five wickets on Wednesday when the home side were skittled for 185.<\/p>\n
Gurnoor Brar took career-best ODI figures of 4-30 to be named player of the match.<\/p>\n
It followed his three-wicket haul in Auckland and he said the conditions in both matches had played into his hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cBowling here in New Zealand, for me, the bounce and the pace really helps, I\u2019m really enjoying it,\u201d Brar said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn India, the pitches are a bit flat. Here, that extra bounce is there. I was just bowling to my strengths and it worked.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Rain stopped play. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
India were never comfortable in their chase, rocked onto the back foot when New Zealand seamer Jacob Duffy (3-35) dismissed Indian captain Shubman Gill for a golden duck and Virat Kohli for seven.<\/p>\n
Paceman Kyle Jamieson (3-35) made a key breakthrough by removing top-scorer Shreyas Iyer for 30, leaving India teetering at 86-5.<\/p>\n
New Zealand were all out in 41 overs, led by a watchful 55 from Daryl Mitchell and 31 from captain Mitchell Santner.<\/p>\n
No other home batsman scored more than 11, many of them undone by unpredictable bounce and tight Indian seam bowling.<\/p>\n
Brar made a key double-strike in the 20th over when he removed Tom Latham and Glenn Phillips cheaply to leave New Zealand 53-5.<\/p>\n
Nabi earlier claimed his first two international wickets, taking openers Will Young and Tim Seifert to finish with 2-31.<\/p>\n
Santner said he was impressed by India\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey bowled really well, especially at the top,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously losing wickets at the start is never ideal and, with the weather around it was always going to be tough at the start and they exploited it well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India\u2019s seam bowlers thrived in helpful conditions for a second straight one-day international as they beat New Zealand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-955982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}