Summary

  • India beat New Zealand by four wickets

  • Hosts top the table as the only team unbeaten after five matches

  • Kohli caught on the boundary on 95 trying to hit six to reach century and win game

  • Fog descended over stadium, briefly forcing players from the field

  • NZ 273: Mitchell 130, Ravindra 75; Shami 5-54

  1. Postpublished at 15:42 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    That is brilliant from Devon Conway, to take a catch like that in these conditions.

    New Zealand break the partnership and keep chipping away.

  2. wicket

    WICKETpublished at 21.3 overs

    Shreyas c Conway b Boult 33 (Ind 128-3)

    Superb catch in the deep from Devon Conway!

    New Zealand are managing to hang in there in this contest as they break a dangerous India partnership.

    It's a short ball from Trent Boult and Shreyas Iyer goes after it. But it gets big on him, the pull shot is mistimed but there is still plenty of work for Conway to do as he comes haring in from the deep and dives forward to take the catch.

  3. Postpublished at 15:39 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    We spoke so much about the dew during the build up to this World Cup but it hasn't actually had that much of an influence on conditions - until tonight.

    It's as if it's all fallen in the space of one evening.

  4. Postpublished at 15:39 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    Alex Hartley
    Former England bowler on BBC Test Match Special

    There is not much turn on offer for the spinners so all you have got to do is keep things simple. Bowl straight, keep the stumps in play and see if you can get the variable bounce to do something for you.

  5. Ind 127-2published at 21 overs

    Target 274

    Rachin Ravindra is on for his first over of the match and after starting with three dot balls, he drops a little too short and is cut away for four by Shreyas Iyer.

  6. Postpublished at 15:35 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Trent Boult hasn't bowled badly in this World Cup but wickets are usually his currency, and he has struggled to find any.

  7. Ind 121-2published at 20 overs

    Target 274

    Trent Boult is back into the attack and the left-arm seamer is round the wicket to the two India right-handers.

    Just a pair of singles from the over and we have now had enough play to constitute a game, fog or no fog.

    India are well ahead on DLS.

  8. Postpublished at 15:30 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    Prakash Wakankar
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Mitch Santner is bowling as well as I have ever seen him.

  9. Postpublished at 15:30 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    New Zealand have been somewhat unfortunate because they have beaten the bat so many times.

  10. Ind 119-2published at 19 overs

    Target 274

    Big turn for Mitchell Santner and he beats Virat Kohli. That was a slower, flighted delivery and it ripped past the outside edge.

    Past the edge again. This time Kohli plays back but the result is the same. Superb stuff from Santner.

  11. Postpublished at 15:28 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    The outfield is lightning fast. India are charging ahead.

  12. Ind 117-2published at 18 overs

    Target 274

    Four more.

    The ball is angling down leg and Virat Kohli helps it on its way down to the fine leg boundary.

    No chance for the fielder.

  13. Ind 111-2published at 17.2 overs

    Target 274

    Gorgeous shot from Virat Kohli. Meeting a length ball from Lockie Ferguson with the full face of the bat and sending it racing through extra cover for four.

  14. Ind 106-2published at 17 overs

    Target 274

    Four singles from Mitchell Santner's over, all just eased out to the fielders in the deep.

    Shreyas Iyer did go slightly harder at one delivery and chipped it towards cover but the ball fell just short of the fielder.

  15. Postpublished at 15:22 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    My colleague Timothy Abraham has just shared an anecdote about playing a game in the fog at the Lima Cricket & Football Club in Peru.

    Apparently the ground, on the edge of the Atacama desert, has never seen a ball lost to rain in its 164-year history.

    However, the sea fog off the Pacific ocean regularly rolls over the ground which makes visibility an issue, especially in the mornings.

    "I was fielding down at fine leg and genuinely couldn't see a top edge skied for a catch," he says.

    Sounds like a convenient excuse to me, that.

  16. Ind 102-2published at 16 overs

    Target 274

    We're back under way in Dharamsala and Shreyas Iyer gets two from the last ball of the Lockie Ferguson over, punching firmly through point.

    Mark Chapman is the fielder out there and fumbles again. It's still tricky for the fielding side despite the worst of the fog having passed.

  17. Postpublished at 15:20 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    Understandably, the New Zealand side are not as keen to get out there. If a catch goes up in the air in this, a fielder has got no chance.

  18. Postpublished at 15:19 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    The umpires are striding back out, the India batters are not far behind them. They're keen to get back out there.

    New Zealand, not unreasonably, are less keen to start when there is still fog around. These conditions will make fielding that much harder.

    Fog stops play in DharamsalaImage source, Getty Images
  19. Postpublished at 15:18 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    Daniel Norcross
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    How long have you been waiting to say that one?

  20. Postpublished at 15:17 British Summer Time 22 October 2023

    Henry Moeran
    BBC Test Match Special commentator

    At least it's not just English cricket that is under a cloud.