Scorecard
started accelerating and Taylor, along with Latham, put the Indian attack to the sword.
Latham had started with three off 11 balls but then scored 50 off the next 27 balls. In all, he hit eight fours and two sixes.
Taylor reached his half-century off 45 balls. His 100-run stand with Latham came off only 65 balls. Jasprit Bumrah (0-53) was deployed but after an impressive initial spell, he was taken for runs too. Latham was caught in the deep off Yadav but the damage had been done as New Zealand crossed 300 in the 41st over.
This was after New Zealand won the toss and opted to field. Tom Blundell played his maiden ODI for the Black Caps, while India gave debuts to openers Prithvi Shaw and Mayank Agarwal. They added 50 off 48 balls for their maiden opening stand before they fell in the space of five deliveries, leaving India at 54-2.
Shaw was the first to go, nicki ng Colin de Grandhomme ( 1 - 4 1 ) , while Agarwal was caught at point off Tim Southee (2-85). It brought Kohli and Iyer together, and they dominated the middle overs with a 102-run stand for the third wicket.
Kohli fell against the run of play as I sh Sodhi ( 1- 27) got through his defence to clip the leg stump.
But the day belonged to Iyer who, despite a scratchy start, crossed 50 off 66 balls. Once past that mark, he batted with more fluency and confidence to notch up his first hundred in 16 ODIS off 101 balls.
The Iyer-rahul pair added 136 runs for the fourth wicket. Rahul’s carnage, inclusive of six sixes and three fours, meant that New Zealand conceded 191 runs in the last 20 overs.
P Shaw c Latham b De Grandhomme 20 (21) M Agarwal c Blundell b Southee
32 (31) V Kohli b Sodhi 51 (63) S Iyer c Santner b Southee 103 (107) KL Rahul not out 88 (64) K Jadhav not out 26 (15) Extras (lb 7, nb 1, w 19) 27 Total (4 wickets; 50 overs) 347 FOW: 1-50, 2-54, 3-156, 4-292 Bowling: T Southee 10-1-85-2, H Bennett 10-0-77-0, C de Grandhomme 8-0-41-1, J Neesham 8-0-52-0, M Santner 10-0-58-0, I Sodhi 4-0-27-1.
M Guptill c Jadhav b Thakur 32 (41) H Nicholls run out 78 (82) T Blundell st Rahul b Yadav 9 (10) R Taylor not out 109 (84) T Latham c Shami b Yadav 69 (48) J Neesham c Jadhav b Shami 9 (14) C de Grandhomme run out 1 (2) M Santner not out 12 (9) Extras (lb 4, nb 1, w 24) 29 Total (6 wickets; 48.1 overs) 348 FOW: 1-85, 2-109, 3-171, 4-309, 5-328, 6-331
Bowling: J Bumrah 10-1-53-0, M Shami 9.1-0-63-1, S Thakur 9-080-1, R Jadeja 10-0-64-0, K Yadav 10-0-84-2.