Live India v NZ: Boult, James leave India reeling

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Ravindra Jadeja comes to the crease.

OVER 19.four: WICKET! James Neesham strikes once more, removes Dinesh Karthik for four runs. India 81/6

Dinesh Karthik comes to the crease.

OVERS 19.1: WICKET! James Neesham ends Hardik Pandya's keep at 30 runs. Pandya fails to judge the away-going ball and nicks it to wicketkeeper Tom Blundell. Big wicket for New zealand. India 77/five

OVERS 17.6: FOUR! Three back-to-back obstacles for Hardik Pandya off Lockie Ferguson. Brilliant stuff from the Indian all-rounder. India 73/four

OVERS 17.four: FOUR! Hardik Pandya uses the pace and edges the ball between the wicketkeeper and first slip for a boundary. India 65/four

OVERS 15.four: Lockie Ferguson to MS Dhoni. Byes, four runs. India 58/four

Did you hear the noise? MS Dhoni comes to the crease.

OVERS 10.three: BOWLED! Colin de Grandhomme removes Virat Kohli for 18 runs. Kohli tries to play throughout and misses the shot completely. The ball kisses the off stumps. Big wicket for New Zealand. India 39/four

OVERS eight.1: FOUR! Confident shot from Hardik Pandya. He opens the face of the bat and sends Tim Southee towards deep extra cover. Fantastic shot from the Indian all-rounder. India 38/three

OVERS 7.2: FOUR! Virat Kohli leans ahead and sends Trent Boult thru cover for a excellent boundary. India 33/three.

Hardik Pandya comes to the crease.

OVERS five.three: WICKET! India are in a deep hassle. Trent Boult castles KL Rahul for 6 runs. Back of a period ball from Boult. Rahul gets an inside edge and the ball rattles the stumps. India are three down. India 24/three.

End of Over five: India 20/2. KL Rahul 2, Virat Kohli 12

OVERS three.five: FOUR! Kohli square drives for his 2d boundary

OVERS three.four: OUT! Boult has Dhawan (2) stuck behind by Tom Blundell. India 10/2

OVERS 2.2: FOUR! Virat Kohli gets off the mark with a fine cover drive off Southee

Virat Kohli arrives to the crease amidst cheers from the crowd

OVER 1.three: OUT! Boult brings the ball again in and traps Rohit (2) plumb in entrance, Dharmasena raises the finger, Rohit goes for the assessment and the replays display it is PLUMB. India three/1

Trent Boult stocks the brand new ball with Southee

OVER 0.1: Tim Southee begins the complaints and Rohit Sharma flicks for a unmarried to get off the mark

Indian captain Virat Kohli received the toss and opted to bat towards New Zealand in the fourth warm-up match of the World Cup at The Oval in London.

Vijay Shankar is not indexed to play this warm-up recreation lately.

Kedar Jadhav may be not playing lately.

Skipper @imVkohli wins the toss and we will bat first in the first warm-up recreation towards New Zealand. #CWC19 https://t.co/DauikLab4s

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After profitable the toss, Kohli stated that the pitch has some grass on it and he desires to put his batsmen below some difficult stipulations, thus decided to bat first. He reckons that if it remains sunny, the deck will probably be flat and good to bat on however he hopes that there is some seam on it. Wants all the players to have some recreation time. He states that match observe is the best roughly observe. Kohli informs that India will attempt to give recreation time to 13 players lately with Kedar Jadhav and Vijay Shankar not participating lately.

New Zealand skipper, Kane Williamson agreed with what his counterpart says in regards to the surface, feels that it will be a challenge for the highest order early on. Informs that everyone is happy to get again into the one-day mode after getting into this from off-season. Mentions that they're going to be entering into with 13 as neatly with Tom Latham missing out due to the finger injury and Matt Henry also sidelined.

India: Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli(c), Lokesh Rahul, MS Dhoni(w), Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Kuldeep Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yuzvendra Chahal

New Zealand: Colin Munro, Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson(c), Tom Blundell(w), Ross Taylor, Colin de Grandhomme, Henry Nicholls, James Neesham, Mitchell Santner, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult, Tim Southee, Ish Sodhi

PITCH REPORT: Shaun Pollock, the pitch skilled for lately, says that the skin is terribly inexperienced, has numerous moisture on it. He feels it will be bowler-friendly and there is probably not too many pitches like these in the rest of the event. Reckons that considering it is a warm-up recreation, the captains may need to take a look at their batsmen and check how they fare in these stipulations.