India vs New Zealand, 1st Semi-final: New Zealand crush India's World Cup dream, enter second straight final
India TV NewsIndia's famed top-order imploded on a day when it mattered most as a gritty New Zealand survived a swift counter-attack from Ravindra Jadeja to win an exciting World Cup semi-final by 18 runs, here Wednesday. New Zealand made it to their second successive final, with credit going to their pacers' -- Matt Henry and Trent Boult's -- deadly opening spell and Lockie Ferguson's steely nerve in the penultimate over. The script was eerily similar to the 2015 World Cup semi-final and just like that evening in Sydney, skipper Virat Kohli was once again out cheaply and Mahendra Singh Dhoni was stuck in the middle overs. At 5 for 3, India have had their worst start of the tournament and it just got even worse when Jimmy Neesham's outstanding effort at backward point ended Dinesh Karthik's misery.