Hyderabad, Jan 18 (Agency) After a blistering knock from Shubman Gill, Team India finishes at 349 for 8 wickets in 50 overs against New Zealand in the first ODI cricket match held at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium here on Wednesday.Gill brought up his maiden double ton and helped the hosts reach a huge total. New Zealand now need 350 runs to win from 300 balls.Shubman Gill departed at 208, he reached 200 ton off just 145 balls. India skipper Rohit Sharma won the toss and elected to bat against New Zealand.India have made three changes from their previous match against Sri Lanka on Sunday with Hardik Pandya, Shardul Thakur and Ishan Kishan coming into the playing eleven.Shubman Gill wrote himself into the record books on Wednesday, hitting a brilliant double hundred in the first One Day International against New Zealand. Gill’s stunning knock saw him join elite company as one of just eight players in the history of the game to have reached the milestone in a Men’s ODI, and the youngest of those eight players. The young opener fell in the final over to close out his knock on 208 from 149 balls, having hit 19 fours and nine maximums in his innings to lift India to a score of 349/8. The next highest score in the innings was 34.India’s limited-overs captain Rohit Sharma still holds the record for the highest individual score in a full men’s ODI with his 264 against Sri Lanka in 2014.
Sharma is the only player to have reached a double-hundred more than once in the format, with three to his name – the others against Australia in 2013 (209) and versus Sri Lanka in 2017 (208*).Playing XIsIndia Playing XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Ishan Kishan (wk), Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed SirajNew Zealand Playing XI: Finn Allen, Devon Conway, Henry Nicholls, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (c and wk), Glenn Phillips, Michael Bracewell, Mitchell Santner, Henry Shipley, Lockie Ferguson, Blair Tickner.