IND vs NZ Highlights: Ton-up Daryl Mitchell powers New Zealand to 7-wicket win over India

IND vs NZ Live Score: Fine half-century from India's skipper, off just 47 deliveries. Getting into his groove now, picking the boundaries with great skill and placement. A cut shot off the seamer played in front of point for four more to reach his milestone.

IND vs NZ Live Score: CLOSE CALL! Gill gets lucky there. Kyle Jamieson back on, Gill tries to cut when it's too close to him. Under edge and it somehow misses the top of the bails by a whisker. Gets away with one there!

IND vs NZ Live Score: Wicket for New Zealand, Kristian Clarke strikes! Rohit tries to dance down and hit him over mid-off, but slices it down the throat of the fielder on the boundary at cover. Slightly soft after he had gotten set, lost his shape after advancing.

70/1 now.

IND vs NZ Live Score: Jeyden Lennox into the attack, the left-arm spinner. Round-arm action, zips it in flat from wide in the crease. Keeps it nice and tidy in his first over except for one wide.

57/0 after 10 overs. India will be slightly happier of the two, having survived the testing early period.

IND vs NZ Live Score: It's clicking for them now! Foulkes loses his shape in this over right at the end, first too wide which Gill can carve over backward point, then down leg which Gill can help along all the way over the ropes. Too easy, and India have caught up with a couple of big overs!

IND vs NZ Live Score: Not a complete highway, this pitch. There is lateral movement on offer and also some variable bounce that is keeping a few deliveries low. Couple of times now that Foulkes has run his fingers down the side of the ball and gotten it to stay low, catching the batters out.

IND vs NZ Live Score: Much more like it from the India openers! Beginnig to play some shots of intent after blunting the twin new balls. Jamieson has been very accurate but begins to lose his line just a touch, and enough for two boundaries and a ran three in that over. One is slightly fortunate, an edge past short third, but Rohit won't mind.

IND vs NZ Live Score: He has taken his time, but he gets going here! Short and wide from Foulkes again, mistake ball, and Rohit is happy to pounce on it with a cut shot himself. Through covers and the crowd finds its voice.

Two balls later, Foulkes hits a better line, but it's overpitched this time. Rohit with a gorgeous cover drive over the top for another four!

IND vs NZ Live Score: That's a peach! Unlucky for Jamieson, more or less the perfect ball, and wry smile from both Gill and the bowler. Angled in, pitches on a good length, and then seams away late. Can't play those, and Gill breathing easy knowing he very easily could have edged that behind.

Something for the seamers early on here.

IND vs NZ Live Score: Has taken till the 4th over but India finally underway with a boundary. Short and wide from Foulkes, and Gill puts it away with a hard cut to beat point.

IND vs NZ Live Score: Quiet early on. Shubman Gill picks up 1 for the first runs of the day off Zak Foulkes.

IND vs NZ Live Score: No shot in anger from Rohit in the first over, respects Jamieson and plays him out for a maiden.

IND vs NZ Live Score: Players are ready and we are set to go in Rajkot. Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill in the middle. Kyle Jamieson with the fresh new ball.

IND vs NZ Live Score: One change for New Zealand too. Left-arm spinner Jayden Lennox earns his debut ahead of Adi Ashok against India's righty-heavy batting unit.

New Zealand XI: Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls, Will Young, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Hay (wk), Michael Bracewell( c), Zakary Foulkes, Kristian Clarke, Kyle Jamieson, Jayden Lennox

IND vs NZ Live Score: Just one change for India as Nitish Kumar Reddy replaces the injured Washington Sundar.

India XI: Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill (c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja, KL Rahul (wk), Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harshit Rana, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna

IND vs NZ Live Score: Surprise! New Zealand skipper Michael Bracewell wins the toss and opts to bowl first on this surface, preferring to chase. Gill says he would have batted first, so he's happy.

One change for New Zealand with debutant Lennox coming in. Nitish Kumar Reddy comes in for India.

IND vs NZ Live Score: From the pitch report, Simon Doull for the broadcaster says winning the toss and batting first is the call, with 320+ as par on this surface. Four out of four times that batting first has resulted in a win at this venue.

Captains ready for the toss!

IND vs NZ Live Score: All set for the toss in Rajkot, where Shubman Gill will try to have the decision come his way. He won the toss and opted to chase in Vadodara – will he prefer to do the same or would he prefer to have his team try putting runs on the board first up? And what of the team composition? Answers soon.

IND vs NZ Live Score: ICC ODI World Cup qualification is something neither India nor New Zealand have ever particularly needed to be concerned about, and that won't be the case in 2027 either, in all likelihood. The system is a little complicated, but relatively simple: be ranked amongst the 8 highest teams in the ICC rankings outside of hosts Zimbabwe and South Africa, and you will participate in next year's tournament. India and the Kiwis are nicely placed, but other teams such as the West Indies, who missed the 2023 tournament, need to make sure they put in the right performances to earn a spot and avoid the qualification draw.

IND vs NZ Live Score: After India snapped a 20-toss losing streak against South Africa, Shubman Gill made it two in a row in Vadodara. But the numbers behind the toss have shown that India have truly struggled to win tosses: since January 14 2023, a three-year window has seen 51 ODI games, in which India have won only 14. That's one toss in every three matches – and India have gotten their one toss win for this series.

2024 and 2025 saw India win just one toss across 16 matches, and that was the last toss of those two years put together.

IND vs NZ Live Score: Shubman Gill has captained India in four ODI matches thus far in his career, and stands at two wins and two losses. After two losses in his first two matches in Australia, he has battled back to win two consecutive games. Slowly finding his feet, and now with a chance to establish a positive record in the format. Will be keen to get a win under the belt today to seal the series and leave his mark as skipper.

IND vs NZ Live Score: KL Rahul has taken to his role at number six in the team like a duck to water. He isn't the most destructive hitter, but he reads situations well and is capable of getting set before scoring quick boundaries – and the first ODI showed he is capable of handling pressure well.

But number five in the batting lineup remains a question mark. India are not using a specialist in that role, and tinkering with the players who bat there. If Ayush Badoni comes in straightaway, is that the role he will be asked to play? Big question Gambhir and his coaching staff must answer.

IND vs NZ Live Score: Amid a winning start to the series, India have been troubled by growing injury worries. On the eve of the first ODI, Rishabh Pant had copped a blow while batting against an Indian throw-down staff and was ruled out of the series. Dhruv Jurel replaced him in the squad. Then, in the first ODI, Washington Sundar suffered a side strain, and he was also ruled out for the rest of the series. The selectors have roped in Delhi's Ayush Badoni as the replacement.

Earlier, Tilak Varma was ruled out of at least the first three T20Is against the Kiwis due to a groin injury.

IND vs NZ Live Score: India’s ODI bowling form guide for the immediate window is led by the spin-strike axis. Kuldeep Yadav tops the chart with 10 wickets across four innings, combining middle-overs control with genuine wicket-taking bursts. Prasidh Krishna is right behind on nine wickets in four innings, and the pattern is clear: he has provided both new-ball dents and end-overs damage when batters have swung. Harshit Rana has six wickets in four innings, driven by early breakthroughs and one partnership-breaking spell each in the South Africa and New Zealand samples. Arshdeep Singh has five wickets in three innings from the South Africa series, offering left-arm variation and repeatable wicket-taking lines. Mohammed Siraj rounds out the top five with two wickets from the New Zealand opener, a smaller sample but a defined role as the hard-length, powerplay enforcer.

IND vs NZ Live Score: India’s top five ODI run-getters in the immediate window underline a familiar shape. Virat Kohli leads by distance with 395 runs in four innings, powered by scores of 135, 102, 65* and 93 — the most reliable “bank” in the line-up. walks into the 2nd ODI with a rare Indian landmark in sight: six straight fifty-plus scores in ODIs. He’s currently on a streak of five consecutive 50+ knocks in the format, which is already the joint-best by an Indian in ODIs, a bracket that includes the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Rohit Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane. So if Kohli gets past fifty again in Rajkot, he won’t just be extending form; he’ll be moving into a solo lane as the first Indian batter to register six successive 50+ scores in ODI cricket.