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2nd ODI: Pacers shine as India bundle out New Zealand for 108

NEW DELHI: Bowlers led by Mohammed Shami produced an incisive spell to help India bundle out New Zealand for 108 in 34.3 overs in Raipur on Saturday.

Shami (3 for 18) and Mohammed Siraj (1/10) rocked the Kiwis from the start and reduced them to 9/3 in 6.1 overs before the other two pacers -- Hardik Pandya (2/16) and Shardul Thakur (1/26) -- joined the party and left New Zealand reeling at 15/5 in the 11th over.

Opener Finn Allen was the first to depart after missing a full ball that came back in late to clip the pads and shatter the stumps. Siraj then got one to seam away from good length inducing an outside edge from number three Henry Nicholls with Shubman Gill doing the rest in the slips.

Two brilliant return catches from Shami and Hardik put New Zealand in further trouble. Shami got one to shape away and Daryl Mitchell, in his attempt to flick it on the on-side, ended up mistiming it back to the bowler.

Hardik's one-handed catch to rid of Devon Conway in the 10th over was sensational. Shardul got himself into the wicket column in the following over by drawing a thick edge from Tom Latham's bat. It was a loose shot from the New Zealand skipper, ending with an easy catch to Gill in the slips.

New Zealand were in dire straits but all hope was not lost with last match's centurion Michael Bracewell (22) and the equally dangerous Glenn Phillips (36) in the middle.

Bracewell made his intent clear by stepping out to whack Shami over cover. After getting hit for consecutive fours in the 19th over, Shami bowled a sharp bouncer and Bracewell went for the pull only to edge it back to the keeper.

Mitchell Santer (27), who scored a fifty in Hyderabad, joined Phillips and the duo took the team past 100 with a 47-run stand for the seventh wicket. However, both were dismissed in a space of six balls to end New Zealand's hopes of a recovery.

While Santner played a well disguised slower ball from Hardik on to the stumps, Phillips gave a regulation catch to Suryakumar Yadav at deep midwicket off a long hop from Washington Sundar (2/7).

Kuldeep Yadav (1/29) trapped number 11 Blair Tickner in front to end the New Zealand innings in 34.3 overs.

(With inputs from PTI)

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