India vs New Zealand 2nd ODI Live Cricket Score: Virat Kohli's excellent form has reduced India's growing concerns about injuries to some key players to some extent, after which the Indian team will take an unassailable lead in the series by winning the second ODI against New Zealand today i.e. on 14 January 2026.
IND vs NZ 2nd ODI Live Score: India will win the series in Rajkot
Sports Desk, New Delhi. India vs New Zealand 2nd ODI Live Score Updates: The second ODI match of the three-match ODI series between India and New Zealand is in Rajkot today. In the first ODI match played in Vadodara, Team India defeated New Zealand by 4 wickets and took a 1-0 lead in the series. Now the Indian team, captained by Shubman Gill, will aim to take an unassailable lead in the series by winning the second ODI.
Everyone is expecting a big innings from Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma in the second ODI, but injuries to some key players of the team have increased the concern.
Washington Sundar was ruled out of the remaining series due to injury in the first ODI. Ayush Badoni was included in the team in his place. Earlier, Rishabh Pant was also out of the series due to injury. Now it remains to be seen who the Indian team will make as replacement for Washington Sundar.
IND vs NZ 2nd ODI: Both teams as follows-
India: Shubman Gill (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurail, Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ayush Badoni, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana.
New Zealand: Michael Bracewell (captain), Devon Conway, Mitchell Hay (wk), Nick Kelly, Henry Nicholls, Will Young, Josh Clarkson, Jack Fowles, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Aditya Ashok, Christian Clarke, Kyle Jamieson, Jayden Lennox, Michael Ray.
India vs New Zealand Live Score: Chance for Nitish or debut for Ayush Badoni?
There is sure to be a change in India's playing-11 in the second ODI after Washington Sundar was ruled out of the series due to rib pain. Nitishareddy may get a chance in the second ODI match. Apart from Nitish, the name of Delhi's Ayush Badoni is also in discussion, who was included in the Indian team by BCCI in place of Sundar.
IND vs NZ 2nd ODI Live Score: Big difference between India and New Zealand teams
There is a lot of difference between the teams of India and New Zealand. The bowling attack of the Kiwi team is not strong and the Indian batsmen will try to take full advantage of it. In the first match, captain Shubhman Gill played a solid half-century while vice-captain Shreyas Iyer missed scoring a half-century by one run.
Rohit Sharma will again try to give a good start to India. Kohli is playing a different kind of cricket at the moment and he seems full of confidence. It seems that he is completely free from the burden of expectations and criticism. Right from the beginning, Kohli has neither refrained from batting aggressively nor left any chance to score runs.
That is why he made the record of scoring 28,000 runs in the fewest innings in all formats in Vadodara. However, India needs to improve the performance of its bowling, especially the spinners. In the last match, the fast bowlers got some wickets due to their strategy of reducing the ball speed and the spinners will hope for a better pitch at the Niranjan Shah Stadium. Despite the defeat in the first ODI, New Zealand must have got a lot of confidence from the fact that despite Kohli's brilliant performance, they gave a tough fight to India.
When India was moving towards achieving the target with ease, Kyle Jamieson made the match exciting by displaying his bowling skills brilliantly. His team had to bear the brunt of dropping the catch in the last moments. Left-handed batsmen Devon Conway and Henry Nicholls gave a good start to New Zealand by adding 117 runs for the first wicket but the team could not take advantage of it.
IND vs NZ 2nd ODI live score: Batting and bowling first in Rajkot?
This is the fifth match to be played at Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. The first ODI match was played here in 2013. A total of 4 ODI matches have been played so far, in which all four matches have been won by the teams batting first. In such a situation, it is expected that whichever team wins the toss today can decide to bat first.
India vs New Zealand Live Score, 2nd ODI: Both teams-
India: Shubman Gill (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul (wicketkeeper), Dhruv Jurail, Ravindra Jadeja, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ayush Badoni, Kuldeep Yadav, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Harshit Rana.
New Zealand: Michael Bracewell (captain), Devon Conway, Mitchell Hay (wk), Nick Kelly, Henry Nicholls, Will Young, Josh Clarkson, Jack Fowles, Daryl Mitchell, Glenn Phillips, Aditya Ashok, Christian Clarke, Kyle Jamieson, Jayden Lennox, Michael Ray.
IND vs NZ 2nd ODI Live Score: Everyone's eyes on Kohli-Rohit
In the first ODI, the Indian team won by 4 wickets and took a 1-0 lead in the series. Now the second ODI is to be played today in Rajkot, by winning which Team India would like to capture the series. In the second ODI too, all eyes will be on Kohli and Rohit Sharma who are now in the final stages of their careers.
In the first match, Kohli missed his 54th century in ODIs, but his innings of 93 runs in 91 balls laid the foundation for India's victory.