{"id":647831,"date":"2026-11-01T13:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647831\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T13:00:09","slug":"new-zealand-underline-batting-might-in-solid-hamilton-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647831\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand underline batting might in solid Hamilton chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner won the toss and elected to field first on a surface offering early assistance to the seamers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>India suffered a forgettable start as openers Abhishek Sharma (0) and Sanju Samson (4) fell cheaply within the powerplay to Adam Milne (4\/19), leaving the visitors reeling at 19\/2 in 3.1 overs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer turned the tide with a fiery 93-run partnership off just 43 balls. Kishan brought up his fifty off 28 balls before departing for 61, while Iyer reached his half-century off 22 balls before getting caught off Nathan Smith on the very next delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the middle-order consolidation and a useful cameo of 33 off 23 balls from Naman Dhir, India lost momentum in the death overs. Milne was the standout bowler for the Black Caps, as India ended at 191\/8 in 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>The teams will now switch formats, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/india-bolster-pace-attack-for-new-zealand-odis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">five-match ODI series<\/a> beginning on 4 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier, New Zealand skipper Mitchell Santner won the toss and elected to field first on a surface offering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[41840,41838,41844,41854,41850,41853,41851,41836,41852,41849,41855,41861,41860,41841,41835,41859,41843,41842,41837,41847,41848,111,43,139,69,41857,41856,41858,41846,41839,41845],"class_list":["post-647831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}