Unchanged India bowl in rain-reduced 40-over contest

November 10, 2026
12:08 pm

Toss India choose to bowl vs New Zealand

Amid falling rain, India won their seventh toss out of eight matches on the tour and elected to bowl first again. The match was supposed to begin as a 40-over contest, but the rain between toss and the start of the match could curtail the match further.

Gill continued to call the tried and trusted tails, which has been the outcome at all eight tosses in this tour: five T20Is and three ODIs.

India had no hesitation in putting New Zealand in on what was bound to be an underprepared pitch that had spent a lot of time under covers. Gill, who was playing his last match of the five-ODI series before he joined the Test specialists to prepare for the two Tests, confirmed India were making no changes to the XI that gave them a 2-0 lead.

New Zealand, frustrated again at having to bat in ideal seam-bowling conditions, made one forced change. Matt Fisher replaced Blair Tickner, who suffered a concussion during the last match.

New Zealand 1 Will Young, 2 Tim Seifert, 3 Henry Nicholls, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Glenn Phillips, 6 Tom Latham (wk), 7 Mitchell Santner (capt), 8 Nathan Smith, 9 Kyle Jamieson, 10 Matt Fisher, 11 Jacob Duffy

India 1 Rohit Sharma, 2 Shubman Gill (capt), 3 Virat Kohli, 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 KL Rahul (wk), 6 Naman Dhir, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Anshul Kamboj, 9 Auqib Nabi, 10 Gurnoor Brar, 11 Arshdeep Singh