India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI: Match called off in Hamilton

India and New Zealand resume their battle for ODI supremacy on Tuesday. Follow the live score and scorecard of the IND vs NZ 3rd ODI on The Indian Express' blog.

All eyes will be on Rohit Sharma on Tuesday as the Hitman tries to get back to form. With the 2027 World Cup in mind, Rohit will look to shut the mouths of his critics and play an important knock at Seddon Park. The former India captain hasn’t been in the best of form in this series, having scored 0 and 23 in the first 2 matches

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Also, regular skipper Shubman Gill will hope to seal the series here itself before he and other Test regulars leave the ODI squad to prepare for the upcoming 2-match Test series. After that, the reins will be in the hands of T20I captain Shreyas Iyer.

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As for the hosts, they will look to avoid losing the series here, having already gone down 3-2 in the T20I series. In the shortest format, they had gone down 3-0 before clawing back to make it 3-2, a far respectful result. Having already gone down 0-2 in the ODI series, the Kiwis will hope that the trajectory does not follow the T20I series.

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Nov 10, 2026 11:14 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Update

Match called off in Hamilton

Nov 10, 2026 11:08 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Kotak on KL Rahul

“I think KL Rahul’s biggest advantage is, I have said this before also, he can open in red-ball, he can play in the middle-order in the ODIs, and whenever required he goes at No. 5. He is so good at No. 6 also. He plays according to the needs of the team,” Kotak said on Monday.

Nov 10, 2026 10:56 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Mitchell Santner at toss

(On the build up to the game) Yeah, it was, the rain obviously came yesterday afternoon. So we got a good, good training in yesterday. Yeah, I guess we’re gonna have to do what we did the other day. Try and do a little bit better. But again, the pitch has been under cover for a little while. So it’s probably going to do a bit. So we have to get through that. (On assessing the par score) Yeah, I think that’s obviously an important part. I think one-day cricket, you usually think 300 is a good score. But I think probably 180 might have been a good score on that. But yeah, I think usually in one-day cricket the conditions can change a little bit going into the night, but there was still a little bit there for us, which was nice. And I guess today it’s going to be one of those assessments pretty early. See what a good score is, see what a defendable score is. (You have been practicing seam up bowling instead of spin?) I did! It nipped all over the place (smiles). So might be an option today. (Team news?) One change, obviously Fish is in instead of Tickner. But yeah, similar makeup obviously, the four seamers. But they’ll probably do majority of the bowling (smiles).

Nov 10, 2026 10:31 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Shubman Gill at toss

We’re going to bowl first. (On the preparations for the game after rain disrupted the previous day’s plans) I mean hopefully the weather clears out a bit. We’re gonna try to repeat our performances that we did well. Hopefully a little bit better with the bat today. (On the frustration of dealing with intermittent rain) Quite frustrating on and off. Hopefully, if there’s rain it continues raining. If there’s no rain, hopefully it stops. It’s very difficult and challenging to come back on and then go off. We are playing the same team.

Nov 10, 2026 10:15 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Playing teams

New Zealand (Playing XI): Will Young, Tim Seifert, Henry Nicholls, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham(w), Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner(c), Nathan Smith, Kyle Jamieson, Jacob Duffy, Matthew Fisher

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill(c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Auqib Nabi, Gurnoor Brar, Arshdeep Singh

Nov 10, 2026 09:49 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Update

We have an inspection at 10:00 AM IST. That is the update we have at the moment if there is no rain.

Nov 10, 2026 09:37 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Kyle Jamieson ahead of game

[On his approach to bowling in the prevailing conditions] Just trying to manage a little bit of the weather stuff. Trying to get it right on what conditions are going to look like and, just trying to, I guess, put them under a little bit of pressure. [On enjoying conditions that offer assistance to fast bowlers] No, I love it. It's sort of, I'm so used to like these wickets that are, you know, if you go under tens, you're having a good day. So it's nice to have a little bit in your favour. You can kind of just try and land on a spot and hope you get a little bit of assistance. So no, it's nice. It's nice to have a little bit more in our favour. And long may that continue. [On managing his injuries mentally and preparing for a demanding Test schedule] I mean it certainly takes a while, right? Like it's probably only now that I sort of feel like I can sort of go out completely, I guess, free from some of that, not sort of, I guess too worried about what's going on. So yeah, it takes a while but just trying to, I guess, trust the work that you've done, trust the process around it and then just ultimately just sort of, I guess, surrender into, yeah, I guess into the game, into what may or may not happen. [On what he focused on during his time away from the game] Well, I kind of always felt like my game was in a, you know, in an okay space. It was just trying to, I guess, get the physical and the body side of it sort of, yeah, just sort of, yeah, a bit more under my control. So it was just about, I felt like if I could kind of put some of those steps in place, get a, I guess, a run of cricket under my belt, it was always going to be all right. So thankfully I sort of feel like I'm coming out the other side of it now and yeah, obviously a big run, big run of Test cricket coming up. So touch wood we survive that. [On the lack of continuity in New Zealand's bowling attack due to injuries and rotation] Yeah, I guess it's a wee bit of frustration, right? You're trying to always, I guess, put a similar attack out and you sort of can build that camaraderie and build that, I guess, cohesion. So yeah, we haven't had the, I guess, the reps that we'd like. But hopefully over the next couple of weeks we'll sort of all come out here together and yeah, get a good run of cricket together.

Nov 10, 2026 09:27 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Anshul Kamboj ahead of game

I started played when I was 13 yeard old. I play for Haryana. So it’s like similar kind of, what I can say, weather and wickets as well in Haryana. (Representing India and the reaction of his family back home]) Actually, I’m excited and very happy as well, as I’m playing for my national team. It’s everyone’s dream to play for their national team, so it’s pretty much exciting. (CSK experience with MS Dhoni and Stephen Fleming) Actually, that was a good learning experience for me, and I’m still learning a lot. I’m just making sure that I’m learning in the right way, not thinking too much about the results, but focusing on what I need to do and what I need to do on the field as well. (On playing the India A series) Actually, it was just about acclimatising to the weather. The wicket was a bit nippy, and I just wanted to understand the right lengths and the right areas where I need to bowl. I’m just focusing on that. (What have you tried to do, and what has made you so successful so far this series?) It’s about accuracy and the perfect line and length, according to the wicket and the situation. It’s working for me right now, so I’m just focusing on that.

Nov 10, 2026 09:18 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Rain again

Well, it is raining again here in Hamilton, so the toss is done, and we wait again.

Nov 10, 2026 09:17 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Teams

New Zealand (Playing XI): Will Young, Tim Seifert, Henry Nicholls, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham(w), Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner(c), Nathan Smith, Kyle Jamieson, Jacob Duffy, Matthew Fisher

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill(c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul(w), Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Auqib Nabi, Gurnoor Brar, Arshdeep Singh

Nov 10, 2026 09:14 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Toss

Shubman Gill wins toss and opts to bowl first vs NZ in Hamilton

Nov 10, 2026 09:04 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Bad news

Well, it is raining again, and the wait continues. The captains were ready for the toss, and suddenly it started to rain.

Nov 10, 2026 08:54 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: India predicted XI

Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill (c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wk), Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Auqib Nabi, Arshdeep Singh, Gurnoor Brar

Nov 10, 2026 08:45 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Luke Ronchi ahead of game

“The other night, if either team had made 200 batting first, that would have been a massive score. So it's realising that ‘okay, for 10 overs you might be going at two, three and over, you're actually still going okay and those are the conversations we have. It's making sure that the guys understand that in those moments, it's just trying to stay calm and realise the adaptability of what you need to do”

Nov 10, 2026 08:39 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Update

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Nov 10, 2026 08:23 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Update

Toss will take place at 9 AM IST and game to start at 9:30 AM

Nov 10, 2026 08:15 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Sitanshu Kotak ahead of game

“Since I have joined, I think I can't remember many matches where he's got batting and he has not contributed. He has played some unbelievable innings and he never looks under pressure…He has never let the team down. So it is brilliant to have someone like him”

Nov 10, 2026 08:00 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: KL Rahul is the calm in India’s ODI middle order

KL Rahul walked in at 47/4 in Wellington on Saturday, with Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma gone and the chase slipping away. He did not try to rescue it with one big over. He put away the loose deliveries when they came, watched Shreyas Iyer, Naman Dhir and Anshul Kamboj depart, and was unbeaten on 26 off 38 balls when rain stopped play. India had won by four runs on DLS.

While the spotlight is on Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, Rahul has quietly held the fort in India’s middle order, batting between numbers four and seven. It was not a headline innings. He does not have a 360-degree game or the shots that make highlight reels. But he brings something India need just as much: the ability to walk in when the innings is in trouble, handle the pressure, rebuild and make up for lost time. (Read more from Shankar Narayan)

Nov 10, 2026 07:47 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Ravi Shastri on his career

[On whether he preferred playing, coaching or broadcasting] Yeah, the toughest would be coaching, right. See, no, because you are nothing in your control once the players leave and get onto the field. You have the bat, ball when you're playing, the mic when you're broadcasting. But once the players go out, you know, you can only twiddle your thumbs. And it comes with immense responsibility. You know, the expectations of the country are such. COVID, no COVID, you got to win, you know, game after game. So there's no hiding behind that. You know, you always have the gun to your head. But if you pull it off and you're successful, I mean, then the rewards, it's very rewarding. Gives you tons of respect. And, you know, makes you enjoy what you're doing and gives you that kind of job satisfaction with nothing else gave you.

Nov 10, 2026 07:34 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Williamson on retirement

“Every interview I did, they would ask about it, and they were never the things that drove me; it wasn’t a number. It wasn’t to get to 10,000 runs to a point where I genuinely believe that if that was a goal of mine at the start, I wouldn’t be close. We wouldn’t sit here and even reference it, because what is your definition of success? Is it an average? Is it a certain number of hundreds? They’re essentially limitations, and often you might have a successful career but probably fall short because your goals are lofty, and I don’t know, it wouldn’t have been true to me,” added Williamson.

Nov 10, 2026 07:24 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Ravi Shastri on his first match

[On his first Test match in New Zealand and the memories of that 1981 tour] It is special. I mean you're travelling out of India. And when I came down the stairs at the Basin Reserve, got out of the dressing room, and you see faces like Hadlee, Cairns, Howarth, you know, John Wright, Chris Cairns, yourself (Ian Smith). It was a terrific side. I still think till today that was one of the best New Zealand Test match sides. There was Martin sitting in the wings, Martin Crowe. And I mean we go back. Who would have ever thought, you know, we both would be sitting here after 45 years having played in that Test match in '81.

Nov 10, 2026 07:14 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Kane Williamson on chat with Kohli

“You don’t do it for those reasons. But if they’re no longer yours and there was a term that he did use, and it was this idea that you can start playing for the gallery. You can start, like holding on or doing things for reasons that aren’t just… I use the word pure, maybe like for your own measure of it, but that aren’t just you that drive you back to the craft and to being a part of the team,” the Kiwi legend said.

Nov 10, 2026 07:03 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Update

The toss is delayed here in Hamilton it will bet at 7:32 if there will be no more rain and game will start at 8

Nov 10, 2026 06:57 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Kane Williamson on chat with Virat Kohli

“He’s (Kohli) still playing a little bit, but largely he made some of those big decisions and that like, honestly just cheering. There’s no one else, I think, even players in your own team from, at times, that have just been in that exact same position for the exact same length of time, captaincy roles, children at the same time. Like we sort of live this parallel thing. We had a really quite special relationship, but although different worlds, and it was just quite a cool thing to be able to share some of that real vulnerable stuff and how you were feeling and just connect over it and it and I was like, I walked out of there, or I got off the phone, my wife walked into the hotel room, and I was like, it’s time,” he added.

Nov 10, 2026 06:54 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Kane Williamson on chat with Virat Kohli

“I spoke to a number of people I trust, and I’ve been really, really close with. And then I actually had a really, really cool chat with Virat like the day before I announced it, and it was really like looking in the mirror, just sharing the experiences that we’ve had in the game for so long,” Williamson said on the ‘Between the Two Beers’ podcast.

Nov 10, 2026 06:47 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Luke Ronchi ahead of game

“The other night, if either team had made 200 batting first, that would have been a massive score. So it's realising that ‘okay, for 10 overs you might be going at two, three and over, you're actually still going okay and those are the conversations we have. It's making sure that the guys understand that in those moments, it's just trying to stay calm and realise the adaptability of what you need to do”

Nov 10, 2026 06:34 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Sitanshu Kotak on KL Rahu

“Since I have joined, I think I can't remember many matches where he's got batting and he has not contributed. He has played some unbelievable innings and he never looks under pressure…He has never let the team down. So it is brilliant to have someone like him”

Nov 10, 2026 06:24 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: IND predicted XI

Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill (c), Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Axar Patel, KL Rahul (wk), Naman Dhir, Anshul Kamboj, Auqib Nabi, Arshdeep Singh, Gurnoor Brar

Nov 10, 2026 06:14 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: NZ predicted XI

Will Young, Tim Seifert, Henry Nicholls, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (wk), Glenn Phillips, Mitchell Santner (c), Nathan Smith, Kyle Jamieson, Jacob Duffy, Matt Fisher

Nov 10, 2026 06:02 AM IST
India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI Live Score: Hola!

Hello and welcome to our live blog of India taking on New Zealand in the third ODI. The visitors have a 2-0 lead in the series, and a win today will mean the remaining two games will be dead rubbers. We have had a similar pattern during the T20I series; we have to wait and see if the Kiwis can launch a comeback today. Do stay with us for all the live updates.

KL Rahul is the calm in India’s ODI middle order

KL Rahul walked in at 47/4 in Wellington on Saturday, with Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma gone and the chase slipping away. He did not try to rescue it with one big over. He put away the loose deliveries when they came, watched Shreyas Iyer, Naman Dhir and Anshul Kamboj depart, and was unbeaten on 26 off 38 balls when rain stopped play. India had won by four runs on DLS.

While the spotlight is on Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, Rahul has quietly held the fort in India’s middle order, batting between numbers four and seven. It was not a headline innings. He does not have a 360-degree game or the shots that make highlight reels. But he brings something India need just as much: the ability to walk in when the innings is in trouble, handle the pressure, rebuild and make up for lost time. (READ MORE)

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