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India 89/1 - Yadav 34*, Gill 45*
8:04pm - No result
This could be it folks. It is.
The umpires and both sides shake hands - this game is officially a washout.
That means the Blackcaps can't lose the series when they meet in game three on Wednesday.
Thanks for your patience today, in what's been a pretty frustrating reminder of what makes cricket the sport it is.
Until next time!
7:18pm - 13th over
Ferguson returns for Santner after just one over.
Yadav swings, but can't beat the mid-on fielder, so he hooks the next ball to square leg for SIX!
Misfield at mid-wicket by Bracewell, but no run.
FOUR! Yadav plays off his pads to the fine-leg boundary.
And the covers are coming back out to the middle, as the rain becomes heavier. One ball remaining in the 13th over, but there will be further reductions to this match no doubt.
7:15pm - 12th over
Bracewell starts his second over...
Gill dabs to square leg for a single. Light rain begins to fall.
Bracewell takes Yadav's pad and appeals, but with no conviction.
SIX! Yadav responds by reverse-sweeping over third man and onto the bank.
Yadav sweeps, but cut off on the boundary by a sliding Mitchell.
Gill to mid-wicket for a single.
IND 78/1
7:10pm - 11th over
Santner into his first over. Gill cuts square for a single.
SIX! Yadav sweeps high and long over square leg onto the bank.
Santner responds by bowling wider outside offstump and Yadav somehow gets it to fine leg. He sweeps square for a single.
Gill cuts to point for a single.
IND 69/1
7:06pm - 10th over
Michael Bracewell's spin comes into the attack and Gill swings him to backward square leg for a single.
Yadav gets under Bracewell, but has no power and it falls short of the mid-wicket fielder.
Yadav attempts a halfhearted sweep and a top edge lofts over Latham for a single.
Gill drives the next ball through cover for FOUR! He sweeps square, but limited to two on the boundary.
Gill budges to mid-on for a single.
IND 60/1
7:02pm - Ninth over
Ferguson into his second over...
Gill pulls to square leg for a single. Yadav guides to short third man for a single.
Similar shot, same result for Gill.
Yadav has a waft and edges it behind him to fine leg.
Gill pulls hard but the pace is taken off at mid-wicket and limited to a single.
FOUR! Yadav falls away and ramps the ball over Latham for four behind the keeper.
IND 51/1
6:58pm - Eighth over
Henry into his fourth over and Yadav has a single off the first ball.
SIX! Gill swings behind square leg and finds the bank at Seddon Park.
Gill cuts to deep point for a single.
IND 42/1
6:52pm - Seventh over
Ferguson comes on for his first over and Gill plays off his hips for a single.
Ferguson digs one in short and Yadav swings lustily, but it's bounced down legside for a wide.
Yadav drives to point for a single. Gill plays the ball into the ground and scuttles through for a single.
Ferguson digs in short again and it beats everyone - batter and wicketkeeper - for four byes.
Ferguson hits Yadav on the pad and is interested in the lbw. Given not out, but reviewed... stays umpire's call.
IND 34/1
6:48pm - Sixth over
WICKET! Dhawan tries to hit back over Henry's head, but only as far as Ferguson at mid-on for a simple catch.
Dhawan 3, caught Ferguson, bowled Henry
Yadav comes to the wicket, promoted to No.3. He guides his second ball towards third man for an opening single.
Gill to mid-wicket for a single.
Allen dives at point to cut off Yadav's cut, then the batters wafts at the final ball, fortunate to miss.
IND 25/1
6:46pm - Fifth over
Southee bowls to Dhawan who lofts behind square leg for a single.
IND 23/0
6:44pm - And the players are returning to the field. Here we go, folks!
Remember one more ball to be bowled in the fifth over...
6:41pm - Hold all tickets! The covers are back on... this is so frustrating!
6:29pm - Play will resume at 6:40pm, with the match reduced to 29 overs each. This is the reason NZ captain Kane Williamson chose to bat second, so his side could take full advantage of their overs, while India must now up their rate from the fifth over.
6:23pm - Rain has stopped and the next pitch inspection is timed for 6:30pm. Stand by for a reduced-overs match.
5:53pm - Covers still on the pitch and officials standing around, wondering about the weather. Still overcast, still hope for a start to play...
5:33pm - Yep, covers are coming off and looks like play will resume in the next 30-40 minutes.
5:12pm - Some activity out in the middle now, with groundstaff seemingly removing the covers. Are we about to get some play?
4:53pm - Apparently 7:30pm is the deadline for deciding whether the match can proceed as a 20-over affair. We're strictly filling time until then... still no sign of the rain easing.
4:49pm - Still no sign of covers lifting at Seddon Park, with rain still falling.
4:21pm - Still raining at Hamilton, although groundstaff are trying to look busy out in the middle, removing water from the covers.
3:58pm - No sign of the rain abating in Hamilton, so the best we can hope for is a shortened match, when/if play resumes... but not for a while.
3:31pm - Groundstaff are now placing covers over the bowlers' run-ups, so no prospect of play anytime soon at Hamilton.
3:20pm - Rain is easing, but the covers are still on the pitch.
2:50pm - Fifth over
Southee into his third over and Gill square-cuts to the fielder.
FOUR! Gill plays through mid-on and the ball beats Mitchell to the rope.
Souhtee hits Gill on the pad and appeals, as the batter runs a single. Not out and no review, as the umpires lift the bails and players scurry off the field.
Covers are back on the pitch for a rain shower... still one ball left in the over, when we resume.
2:46pm - Fourth over
Henry into his second over and Gill plays off his legs for a single.
Similar shot from lefthander Dhawan for another single.
Henry raps Gill on the front pad and big appeal, but hint that it was heading down legside, so not out and no review.
Gill digs the next ball off his toes through mid-wicket and the batters scamper for three. Close finish at the batter's end, but Dhawan just beats the throw.
IND 17/0
2:41pm - Third over
Southee into his second over.
Gill withdraws late and Southee is virtually in his delivery stride, but has to hold on.
FOUR! Gill square cuts through the covers for a boundary.
Gill dabs to mid-wicket and runs a hasty single.
IND 12/0
2:37pm - Second over
Matt Henry will bowl the second over.
FOUR! Gill plays to mid-on for the first boundary of the afternoon.
Gill nudges to mid-wicket for a single.
IND 7/0
2:32pm - First over
Dhawan plays off his hip to fine leg for a single to get off the mark. Gill plays past Southee for an opening single.
Southee beats the edge of Dhawan's bat with his fourth delivery.
IND 2/0
2:31pm - Tim Southee leads out the NZ side for his 150th ODI - the 150th player to achieve that for their country. After taking his 200th wicket on Friday, he has the ball for the first over...
2:16pm - NZ skipper Kane Williamson has won the toss and will bowl first, hoping his seamers can get something out of the pitch. That said, the only change in the line-up sees spin allrounder Michael Bracewell replace paceman Adam Milne.
India skipper Shikhar Dhawan would have bowled first too and they have made two changes - Deepak Chahar for Shardul Thakur and Deepak Hooda for Sanju Samson.
2:09pm - The toss has been delayed by rain, but the covers are coming off the wicket and no play has been lost, so high hopes of a start on time at Hamilton.
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Kia ora, good afternoon and welcome to the second of three one-day internationals between New Zealand and India at Hamilton's Seddon Park.
The news is not good on the weather front, with 'The Tron' experiencing showers that could turn into thunderstorms at any minute. Could be more rain than cricket today, but we'll see...
The Blackcaps hold a 1-0 lead in the series, courtesty of their seven-wicket victory at Eden Park on Friday, with Tom Latham's century and his 221-run fourth-wicket stand with skipper Kane Williamson rescuing the home side from a precarious position at 88/3.
After a feats of T20 format recently, Latham and Williamson reminded us that you don't need to blast away over 50 overs, which provide plenty of time to build an innings, before hitting out towards the end - which was exactly the recipe used.
Veteran bowler Tim Southee achieved his 200th ODI wicket, but Williamson later regretted rolling out a four-prong pace attack, when the wicket started showing some turn.
Join us at 2pm, when we learn more about the prospects of play in Hamilton.
TAB Odds: NZ $1.64, India $2.15
Blackcaps: Kane Williamson (c), Finn Allen, Michael Bracewell, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Tom Latham (wk), Adam Milne, Daryl Mitchell, James Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee
India: Shikhar Dhawan (c), Yuzvendra Chahal, Deepak Chahar, Shubman Gill, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Arshdeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Suryakumar Yadav
Latham savours whirlwind century as stellar record against India continues
By Stephen Foote
Even Blackcaps man of the moment Tom Latham was left slightly flummoxed by his match-turning innings in the first one-day international against India at Auckland on Friday.
With the contest evenly poised, Latham joined captain Kane Williamson at the crease, where the pair proceeded to put on an unbeaten stand of 221 to steer their side past India's total of 306/7 with seven wickets and just under three overs remaining.
Latham's share of that fourth-wicket partnership was a magnificent 145 from just 104 balls, which included 24 boundaries (19 fours, five sixes), while his skipper anchored the other end with 94 off 98.
It also saw Latham become the first New Zealander to be a part of three 200-run plus partnerships in ODIs.
"I'm not really sure where that came from," Latham said of his knock.
"Obviously being in the position when I came into bat, just try and absorb a little bit of pressure and take it deep on a ground with some unique dimensions, you can score quite quickly so [we] also managed to build a decent partnership and get across the line which is nice."
The definitive moment at Eden Park came in the 40th over. The Blackcaps had wickets in hand but had been gradually slipping behind the required run rate, which Latham quickly rectified by splattering Shardul Thakur to the boundary in a devastating 25-run over.
Thakur had conceded just 15 runs through his previous seven overs, but was sent for a six, then four consecutive fours to the leg-side fence to finish. The Blackcaps went from staring at an equation of 91 off 66 balls to just 66 off 60 balls, and their procession to victory began.
The one single in between that flurry of boundaries saw Latham raise his seventh ODI century, which he greeted with a yelp of satisfaction and an understated fist bump, eclipsing his previous highest score of 140no against Netherlands back in April.
"I was just reacting to what was being bowled, it wasn't a conscious effort to try to target that over," Latham insisted. "When it was slightly shorter, I was trying to use the pace and target those shorter boundaries and I was just trying to react and it paid off.
"For me it was about trying and being busy and hit the ball in the gap and run hard and the asking rate was hanging around seven-eight an over and we said if we try and keep it below eight then we can give ourselves a chance at the back end.
"There was a little bit of turn there from Washington [Sundar] and he bowled really nicely so it was about absorbing that pressure and when you get the scoring opportunity, just try and put them away.
"Obviously the deeper we took it, you can score quite quickly out here and that's what we did."
The knock was a continuation of Latham's glittering ODI record against India. Through 17 innings, he's amassed two centuries and five fifties at an average of just over 65 runs.
"You do your scouting of your bowlers and I've played India a fair bit recently so I have the understanding of what their bowlers are trying to do to me, but also trying to stick to my strengths as well and just play the situations."
The 30-year-old will look to keep that ball rolling in the second of the three-match series at Hamilton on Sunday.
