India vs New Zealand Highlights, World Cup Semi-Final: IND beat NZ by 70 runs, advance to final unbeaten

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: The players and officials are standing adjacent to each other. First comes New Zealand's national anthem, and then India's.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: There are "Sachin! Sachin!" chants everywhere, as you would expect. This is the Wankhede Stadium after all. This is Mumbai. They don't really need a reason to blast out that chant from their throats, let alone when they are setting up for a big semi-final match involving India with Tendulkar himself in the stands.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Williamson admits that the Kiwis would have loved to bat first, leading to big cheers from the home crowd. But he says that they would hope to take advantage of the dew that could come in later. "Amazing occasion. Four years ago, similar situation but a different location. They have been playing some good cricket," he says.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: The Indian captain reckons that this looks like a good pitch, a little on the slower side. "Whatever we do, we need to do well. I think it was back in 2019 when we played the semis. NZ is one of the most consistent sides," he said.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Kane Williamson(c), Daryl Mitchell, Mark Chapman, Glenn Phillips, Tom Latham(w), Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul(w), Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Rohit Sharma calls it right and he says that India will bat first. Both sides go with the same teams.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Right, Rohit Sharma and Kane Williamson have walked out with their respective team sheets. Seconds away now...

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Former England football captain David Beckham is famously in the stadium today and he, alongwith Sachin Tendulkar, met up up with both the Indian and New Zealand sides.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Ravi Shastri puts the record straight – win the toss and bat first! He says the pitch will assist spinners and both teams would want to put runs on the board first. “I can see a lot of spots on the surface. Spinners will come to play, even if the team fields first. As the game progresss… this track is hard enough. If there is dew, it will play on nicely. There are pastures of grass towards the end, so it will have carry for fast bowlers at back of the length. You want to bat first, put runs on the board.”

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Former New Zealand star Simon Doull, speaking on Star Sports, has advised Kane Williamson to bring in Rachin Ravindra as soon as possible when the side bowls. Doull believes that Ravindra will be handy as India's top-order is packed with right-handers. “He will go hard at Southee. I want New Zealand to bring in Ravindra early into the contest. All the right-handers at the top, I will be very surprised if Ravindra dosn't bowl in the first 6-8 overs in the match,” Doull says.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: The last time India made a change in their XI was against New Zealand in the group stage – although it was a forced change. With Hardik Pandya injured, India brought in Suryakumar Yadav in the batting order and replaced Shardul Thakur with Mohammed Shami. It was a move that rewarded India brilliantly, as Shami has picked 16 wickets in six matches since. However, with the pitch reportedly assisting spin at Wankhede, can we see an unlikely inclusion of a third spinner in the Indian lineup?

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Such has been India's dominance in this tournament that fans are almost scared about the fact that they haven't yet been troubled by any team, regardless how said team had been playing before facing India. Pakistan were looking quite good before their campaign went swiveling out of control with their loss to India. New Zealand looked incredibly strong, until their run of four back to back wins was ended by India. South Africa were known to be a side that is almost unbeatable batting first but quite beatable batting second but even then, it was a surprise when India blew that power-packed batting lineup away for a mere 83 runs. All of that means nothing today, and potentially on Sunday if India make it.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Well if this game was not being played against India, there would have been those "Sachin, Sachin" chants today at the Wankhede Stadium. Except that it won't exactly be Sachin but Rachin that the crowd would've been saying. His father has debunked the urban legend of his name being a combination of Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar's name but Ravindra is already a crowd-favourite now. It has come on the back of the sheer numbers he has put up. The 23-year-old, in his debut World Cup tournament, has scored 565 runs at an average of 70.62 and strike rate of 108.44 with three hundreds and two fifties.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, World Cup Semi-Final: India do possess a noticeable swagger and skip in their steps in this World Cup. There have also been the highly popular videos of their post-match fielding medal award ceremonies that have become a bit of a feature of their campaign. Rohit says that the management is making a conscious effort to make sure that the team environment remains light. "Our conscious effort has been on this, that the team's environment does not change based on the results," he said. "We have to create the environment that is needed for the team and that is mandatory. And this cannot be done by one or two boys. It is important for all the boys to come together, including the support staff.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: The group stage did end up becoming a rather close affair, contrary to what it had started to look like just before the halfway stage. The only thing that was decided long before the final match day, though, was India finishing on top. The only times they were challenged at all throughout the group stage was when Australia blew away their top order in their opening game within the first five overs and then when Dary Mitchell and Rachin Ravidra plundered runs during the middle overs of the match between India and New Zealand in Dharamsala. On both occassions, they eventually won the match in a manner in which that little period of struggle became little more than footnotes. They won all nine matches and ended up with a net run rate of a whopping +2.570.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: New Zealand quite rightly picked a tag of being a bogey side for India considering the number of times they have beaten the latter in big matches in international tournaments. India finally managed to beat them in a World Cup game for the first time since 2003 earlier in this tournament but this is the knockout and so the fear of the bogey has not really gone away from the minds of the fans. But there is a bogey factor here for New Zealand as well. In the last three World Cups, New Zealand have been knocked out by a host nation - Sri Lanka in the semi-final in 2011, and Australia and England in the 2015 and 2019 finals respectively.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: It is not just Tendulkar's century record that is in sight for Kohli today. He has scored 357 runs in seven ODIs thus far at an average of 59.50 with one century and two half-centuries. That makes him the second-highest run scorer of all time in the format at the venue after Tendulkar, who had scored 455 runs in 11 matches at an average of 41.36 with one century and three half-centuries. Scoring 98 today would hence be enough for Kohli to go past Tendulkar's record at the great man's home ground.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Virat Kohli is not someone who needs to be educated about the concept of "sense of occassion". The great man has been through many of those in his illustrious career but it wouldn't be a stretch to say that there won't have been many quite like the one he is presented with today. It is the World Cup semi-finals against the team that he lost to as captain in 2019. It is the Wankhede Stadium, home of Sachin Tendulkar whose record of 49 ODI tons he equalled earlier in this tournament. A century here would go a long way in ensuring India's victory regardless of whether they bat first and it'll also help him surpass the man he calls his hero. Him scoring a century today would surely be the biggest moment in a career pockmarked with those.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: Both are stalwarts for their respective teams and battles between the pair have been interesting over the yeas in ODIs. It has produced 205 runs at a strike rate of 101 but also six dismissals as well.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-Final 2023: These two sides had met earlier in this tournament in Dharamsala. It was seen as India's biggest challenge at that point. Both sides had won all four of their opening matches and the Kiwis for the first, and thus far only, time put pressure on the Indian bowling attack through the middle overs of their innings. But India came roaring back and took the game by seven wickets. New Zealand batted first and were reduced to 19/2 in the first nine overs. Then came a 159-run stand between Daryl Mitchell and Rachin Ravindra that came in just 152 balls and at the time, it looked like New Zealand might get a score close to 350. But Mohammed Shami's five-wicket haul led the way as India restricted New Zealand to a score of 273. Virat Kohli then led the way with 95 off 104 as India won the match by four wickets.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-final 2023: Rohit said that toss doesn't matter at the Wankhede and it is fair to say that he would be an expert on the conditions in that stadium. It is his domestic and IPL home ground. But then there has been a huge difference in scores of teams batting first and second at the Wankhede in this tournament. The second innings scores at the Wankhede in this tournament have read 170, 233, and 55. The corresponding first innings scores were 399, 382 and 357 respectively. The one time a team managed to chase successfuly was when Australia's Glenn Maxwell played a once-in-a-lifetime double century on practically no legs and the score before that piece of magic was 91/7.

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-final 2023: One of the go-to lines for Indian captain Rohit Sharma, and Virat Kohli before him, ahead of a game against Pakistan in any tournament is that they are looking at it as just another game. Well, head coach Rahul Dravid is doing no such thing against this game, acknowledging the nature and sense of occassion that is going to come with it. "I think we'll be inauthentic if we say that it's just another game," he had said after India's final group game against the Netherlands on Star Sports. "Yes, of course it's a semi-final but I think our processes and what we've done in the lead-up to each and every game is not going to change. We do recognise that it is an important game, it is a knockout game, we have to accept the fact that there is going to be a certain amount of pressure but I think the way we have responded to the pressure so far gives us a lot of belief and a lot of confidence."

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-final 2023: New Zealand can beat India as many times as they want in big matches but Indian fans will always have a smile on their faces when Kane Williamson has one on his. The New Zealand captain has had a wretched time with injuries in the past couple of years, seemed to have recovered earlier in the year when he plundered runs in Test matches and then suffered a freak injury in the very first match of the 2023 IPL which made it look like he is about to miss the World Cup now. He somehow recovered, only to pick a freak thumb injury during the match on October 13 against Bangladesh. That kept him out for the next 10 days and through all this, somehow, Williamson's numbers have never really gone too far down. He has not scored a century yet, which might be seen as a failure considering his lofty standards, but then despite playing right after recovering from an injury and then recovering from yet another one, Williamson's scores in this tournament have read 78 not out (retired hurt after picking said thumb injury), 95 and 14. Geniuses aren't bothered by injuries, eh?

India vs New Zealand Live Score, IND vs NZ World Cup 1st Semi-final 2023: Is bright and sunny! Well not really, it is bright and hazy largely thanks to the pollution that somehow seems to mysteriously spike up in most major Indian cities at this time of the year when all people do apart from the usual usage of vehicles is bursting crackers. Chances of rain is next to zero today in Mumbai and so that feared reserve day might never come into play after all.