Kiwis 230-9 against India amid pitch-tampering controversy

Kiwis 230-9 against India amid pitch-tampering controversy
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Summary Pace bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar claimed three wickets for the hosts

PUNE (AFP) - India restricted New Zealand to just 230-9 after a pitch-tampering controversy threatened to disrupt the second one-day international in Pune on Wednesday.

Pace bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar claimed three wickets for the hosts while Henry Nicholls was the Kiwis  top scorer with 42 runs.

Officials gave the match the go-ahead after India s cricket board banned the pitch manager from the ground, following an undercover sting by journalists in which he claimed he had doctored the surface before the game.


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