India 209 (Axar 46, Kishan 46, Santner 3-47, Duffy 3-60) beat New Zealand 187 (Foxcroft 31, Arshdeep 3-30, Axar 2-28) by 22 runs
Arshdeep Singh and Mohammed Siraj hit a pair of 14s to take India past 200 for the first time in the series, and then led the defence with five wickets between them to give India their first away ODI series win under Gautam Gambhir as coach. Both sides were depleted with players gone for Test preparations, but India had Yash Thakur on debut and Auqib Nabi in his sixth ODI to lend the required support to Arshdeep and Siraj, who was playing his first match of the tour.
Winning their toss for the first time in the series, New Zealand risked batting under lights - India were bowled out for 89 under lights the other day - out of concerns for the dew, but found themselves having to negotiate seam movement for all of India's four quicks. Shreyas Iyer kept attacking, introducing spin only in the 36th over, and India kept New Zealand to 187, only four more than the score at which Arshdeep and Siraj came together.
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