Black Caps level series, Mitchell leads the way
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Another major batting effort from Daryl Mitchell has taken the Black Caps to a series-levelling seven-wicket win over India in the second one day international at Rajkot.
Chasing 285 for victory, Mitchell scored 131 not out for his eighth ODI ton in a 162-run stand with Will Young - 87 for the third wicket which to the New Zealand side to the win with 15 balls to spare. .
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Mitchell's total beat the unbeaten 112 by KL Rahul in India's 284-7 and forced the three-match series into a decider on Sunday in Indore.
The Black Caps were 46-2 when Mitchell made it to the crease..Young fell to Kuldeep Yadav in the 38th over but Mitchell stood firm to bring up his hundred.
He hit 11 fours and two sixes in his 117-ball innings and with Glenn Phillips on 32 not out, put together an unbeaten stand of 78.
IEarlier Devon Conway was out to Harshit Rana for 16 and Henry Nicholls for 10 to Prasidh Krishna.
The Indian innings had captain Shubman Gill out for 56 before a brief collapse and a 73-run fifth-wicket partnership between Rahul and Ravindra Jadeja.
Rahul raised his eighth ODI ton in 87 balls with a six off Kyle Jamieson.
Rohit failed to capitalise on his start and fell to Kristian Clarke, before pace spearhead Jamieson sent back Gill.
Clarke kept up the charge with his medium-pace bowling to dismiss Shreyas Iyer for eight and the in-form Virat Kohli for 23.
The 37-year-old Kohli, who returned to the top of the ODI batting rankings on Wednesday, walked back to stunned silence after he played on as India slipped from 99-1 to 118-4.
Rahul then took centre stage to rebuild the innings along with Jadeja, who made 27.
The series will be followed by five T20s, ahead of the T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka between 7 February and 8 March.
