Henry Nicholls scored 80 runs while Martin Guptill smashed a quickfire 66 as New Zealand pulled off a 297-run chase with 17 balls to spare to hand India a five-wicket defeat in the third One-day International at the Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui, on Tuesday. With this, New Zealand completed a 3-0 clean sweep against India as the home team earlier won matches in Hamilton and Auckland. Before the ODI series, India had registered a 5-0 whitewash against New Zealand in the five-match T20 International series. Earlier, KL Rahul scored his fourth ODI hundred as India posted 296/7 after being asked to bat. The wicketkeeper-batsman scored nine boundaries and two sixes in his 112-run knock and stitched a century stand each with Shreyas Iyer (62) and Manish Pandey (42). While India lost opener Mayank Agarwal and captain Virat Kohli cheaply inside first seven overs, Prithvi Shaw impressed with the bat before getting run out for 40. For New Zealand, Hamish Bennett claimed four wickets, including two consecutive strikes to get the dangerous Rahul and Pandey. However, he couldn't claim a hat-trick and finished his 10-over spell with figures of 4/64. Kyle Jamieson and Jimmy Neesham contributed to the bowling attack with a wicket each. (SCORECARD)
Highlights Between New Zealand vs India 3rd ODI, straight from Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui:
New Zealand avenge T20I whitewash defeat with a 3-0 clean sweep in the ODIs. And, that brings an end to today's action. Thank you for joining us for the live coverage.
New Zealand beat India by five wickets to clinch the three-match ODI series 3-0. Henry Nicholls top-scored for New Zealand with 80 runs while spinner Yuzvendra Chahal claimed three wickets as India aimed for a consolation win at the Bay Oval.
Ross Taylor gifts his wicket to India, departs for 12 runs after giving an easy catch to Virat Kohli. This is for the first time when Ross Taylor has been dismissed in this series.
Back-to-back boundaries for Henry Nicholls. With eyes on his second ODI hundred, the left-handed batsman has decided to attack Saini, who is struggling with length at the moment.
Navdeep Saini gets smashed for a boundary after having bowled two no balls in an over. It brings up 50-run stand between Henry Nicholls and Kane Williamson for the second wicket.
Half-way through and New Zealand are 144/1, need 153 runs to win. Henry Nicholls and Kane Williamson are solid for the hosts with 54 and 21 runs respectively.
FOUR! Henry Nicholls scores his 11th half-century in One-day International cricket off 72 balls. New Zealand are 135/1 in 23 overs. They need 162 runs to win the third ODI and complete a 3-0 clean sweep.
Yuzvendra Chahal deceives Martin Guptill with turn, castles him down for 66 runs. New Zealand are 106/1 in 16.3 overs, need 191 runs to win. Martin Guptill has surpassed Nathan Astle to become the top-scoring opener for New Zealand with 6178 runs.
Henry Nicholls gets lucky as wicket-keeper KL Rahul misses a run out chance. Martin Guptil wanted to take a quick single but Manish Pandey made a timely throw. However, Rahul could not collect the ball when Nicholls was short of crease.
Martin Guptill scores his 37th half-century in One-day International cricket off 29 balls. New Zealand are 73/0 in 10.4 overs. The hosts need 224 runs to win the third ODI and complete a 3-0 clean sweep.
Glorious! Another good shot by Martin Guptill and another big over for New Zealand. Navdeep Saini concedes 15 runs as New Zealand reach 40/0 in six overs.
Martin Guptill follows it up with a boundary. New Zealand are going quite aggressively for a 3-0 clean sweep after having suffered a whitewash in five-match T20I series.
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