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Sehwag brings India's first series win in NZ

AFP, Hamilton
India sealed their first ever one-day international series in New Zealand on Wednesday after Virender Sehwag smashed a brutal quick-fire century in the rain-shortened fourth match.
India won by 10 wickets to go 3-0 up in the five-match series as openers Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir treated the New Zealand bowling attack with disdain.
New Zealand scored 270 for five in 47 overs in their innings and more rain interruptions saw India declared the winners after reaching 201 for none from 23.3 overs.
Sehwag scored 125, reach ing three figures off just (-balls to record the seventh fastest one-day century ever and the iastest by an Indian player, ensuring India's first one-day series win in New Zealand in six attempts.
Sehwag's armoury of pull shots, drives and cuts saw the opener finish with 14 fours and six sixes from his 74 ball innings.
The squat 30-year-old now has 11 ODI centuries in a career known more for brute force than deft touches, and he said after his latest hundred he was loving the flat pitches and short boundaries in New Zealand.
Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni described Sehwag's batting as" amazing to see".
"That was the key, we wanted to play our natural cricket and that's what they were doing." he said of the opening pair.
New Zealand captain
Daniel Vettori described the result as "a good old-fashioned hiding".
"We didn't really get ourselves in the game, (were) a little bit short with the runs
and then Sehwag and Gambhir played outstandingly to take the game away from us."
Gambhir was the perfect
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partner for Sehwag, turning over the strike with frequent singles while still finishing with 63 runs off 67 balls.
New Zealand's bowlers were grim-faced after a nightmare match, with nothing they tried working against the rampantopeningpair.
They have had a series to forget against the star-laden Indian line-up, who hit 392-4 in the previous one-dayer in Christchurch at the weekend.
Debutant Ewen Thompson, Iain O'Brien and Jacob Oram were all hit for at least 10 runs an over in Hamilton.
Earlier. New Zealand battled to 270 for five, after openers Brendon McCullum and Jesse Ryder got the home side off to a flying start, putting on 102 for the first wicket.
McCullum anchored the top of the New Zealand innings, top-scoring with 77 from 95 balls in a carefully paced knock, including seven fours and two sixes.
Ryder followed his century in the third OD1 in Christchurch with 46, and was the first out after skying an attempted sweep off part-time spinner Yuvraj Singh to Suresh Raina at square leg in the 20th over.
India's spinners put the brakes on the middle stages of
New Zealand’s innings, restricting die scoring as wickets fell at regular intervals.
As in Christchurch, where the opening pair put on 166 runs, the innings lost its way after Ryder and McCullum were prised apart, with five wickets falling in the space of 73 runs and 17 overs.
But a late surge by Peter McGlashan — standing in as wicketkeeper while McCullum recovers from a thumb injury --with an undefeated 56, and Grant Elliott (35 not out) added valuable runs in the last 11 overs.
McGlashan scored his first ODI half century in just his third one-day international to keep New Zealand's hopes alive with six fours and a six off 42 balls.
Irfan Pathan was the most economical of the Indian bowlers, finishing with one for 14 off five overs.
Ishant Sharma, returning from a shoulder injury, gradually found some rhythm after a wayward start to end with two for 57 from eight overs.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard in the fourth one-day international between New Zealand and India at Seddon Park in Hamilton on Wednesday. (Rain restricted New Zealand's innings to 47, overs, also saw India declared
the winners after reaching 201 -0 after 23.3 overs):
NEW ZEALAND
Ryder c Raina b Yuvraj 46
McCullum lbw b Zaheer 77
TaylorcR Sharma b Pathan 5
Guptillc sub bl Sharma 25
Oram cDhoni bl Sharma 1
McGlashannotout 56
Elliott not out 35
Extras: (lb-9,w-13. nb-3) 25
Total (For five wkts in 47 overs) 270
Did not bat: Vettori, Mills, Thompson, O'Brien.
Fall of wickets: 1-102,2-114,3-155,4-156,5-175.
Bowler O M R W
Zaheer 10 0 49 1
Kumar 7 0 51 0
I Sharma 8 0 57 2
Yuvraj 9 0 40 1
Pathan 5 0 14 1
Harbhajan 8 0 50 0
INDIA
Gambhirnotout 63
Sehwagnotout 125
Extras: (lb-9, w-4) 13
Total (For no loss m 23 3 overs) 201 Did not bat: Raina, Yuvraj Singh, Dhoni, R Sharma, Pathan, Kumar. Harbhajan, Zaheer Khan, I Sharma.
Bow’ler O M R W
Mills 5 0 29 0
Thompson 4 0 42 0
O'Brien 3 0 37 0
Vettori 5 0 32 0
Oram 4.3 0 43 0
Elliott 2 0 9 0
Result: India won by 10 wickets and lead five-match series 3-0.
Man-of-the-match: Virender Sehwag.
Toss: New Zealand
Umpires: Gary Baxter (NZL), Rudi Koertzen (RSA)
Match referee: Ranjan Madugalle(SRI)