Watch the highlights of India vs New Zealand 4th ODI - 1995 New Zealand tour of India 6-match ODI series - The fourth One-Day International cricket match between India and New Zealand played at the Nehru Stadium, Poona on November 24, 1995.
Match Overview:
Mohammad Azharuddin's classy half-century then A unbeaten 57-run stand for the sixth-wicket partnership between Sanjay Manjrekar and Nayan Mongia steers to India convincing five-wicket victory over New Zealand, despite a all-round display by Chris Cairns' maiden century with three-wickets and India go up 2-1 lead in the fourth ODI.
Match Stats:
- Chris Cairns' 103 was his highest score for New Zealand in one-day international and the fifth highest-score by an New Zealand batsman against India in ODIs.
- Chris Cairns became the fourth New Zealand batsman to score a century against India in ODIs after Martin Crowe (2), Glenn Turner (1) and Ken Rutherford (1).
- Chris Cairns became the tenth New Zealand batsman to score a hundred in ODIs.
In-Depth Match Highlights:
New Zealand scored 235-6 in 50 overs with top scorer by Chris Cairns hammered a career-best 103 off 87-balls - which was his 1st ODI hundred.
Roger Twose cracked a 46 off 57-balls including two boundaries, Stephen Fleming struck 26 off 39-balls included 2-fours and Martin Crowe scored 15 off 36-balls without a boundary.
India best bowler by Sachin Tendulkar captured two-wickets, Aashish Kapoor, Javagal Srinath and Venkatesh Prasad each took one-wickets.
India chase down the target of 236 for 5 in 45.5 overs with top scorer by Mohammad Azharuddin struck 58 off 68-balls including 5-fours.
Sanjay Manjrekar cracked a unbeaten 47 off 56-balls including 3-fours, Vinod Kambli struck 42 off 65-balls included 3-fours.
Nayan Mongia blasted a unbeaten 36 off 30-balls including 7-fours with strike rate of 120 and Manoj Prabhakar hit 20 off 31-balls included 3-fours.
New Zealand best bowler by Chris Cairns picked up 3-wickets and one for Danny Morrison.
Chris Cairns named Player of the match for his all-round performance to picked up 3-wickets for 37-runs in 10-overs including a maiden with economy rate of 3.70 after smashing a career-best whirlwind 103-runs knocked off facing 87-balls including 10-fours & 4-sixes with strike rate of 118.39.
Match Report:
India beat New Zealand by five wickets in their fourth one-day cricket international, despite an aggressive century by man-of-the-match Chris Cairns, to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
Cairns scored his maiden one-day international century to save New Zealand from a disastrous start of 4-75, and then took three valuable wickets to give his side a fighting chance.
The record fifth-wicket partner ship of 147 runs between Cairns and Roger Twose gave New Zealand's score a semblance of respectability at 6-235 in 50 overs.
Cairns knock of 103 off 88 halls was studded with 10 boundaries and four sixes. He was out stumped by Nayan Mongia off Sachin Tendulkar.
India, whose skipper Moham mad Azharuddin won the toss and put the tourists in to bat, was set a run rate of 4.7 an over to win the match. They scored 5-238 in 45.5 overs.
They lost an early wicket when Tendulkar was caught by Gavin Larsen off Danny Morrison for seven. But useful knocks by Vinod Kambli and Azharuddin steadily pushed the score up.
Cairns dismissed opener Manoj Prabhakar for 20 to put the brakes to the Indian march initially. In his second spell he removed both Azharuddin and Ajay Jadeja, in a space of only 14 balls, to infuse some life into the match.
But Sanjay Manjrekar, proving his reliability once again, steered India to safety and victory with an unbeaten 47. In the company of Mongia, Manjrekar added 57 runs for the unbeaten fifth wicket. Mongia finished with an aggressive 36 runs off 30 balls.
The two sides meet again at Nagpur on Sunday in the fifth game of the six-match series, which India leads 2-1 after, the third in Goa on Tuesday was washed out by rain.
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