Williamson, Southee star in final-over win

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New Zealand 242 for 9 (Williamson 118, Bumrah 3-35, Mishra 3-60) v IndiaLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details

India wouldn’t have expected a target of 243 to trouble them. But it did. Their top order tends to finish games off. Not this time. That left MS Dhoni and a set of batsmen not accustomed to finishing an innings. New Zealand exploited that to pull off a six-run victory and level the series.

It was a chaotic scrap to the finish, which brought a noisy crowd at the Feroz Shah Kotla to their feet in the final stages. India were 172 for 6 – and the man dismissed was the Indian captain, who was also their best option against an equation of 71 runs in 63 …

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