India had a game to forget at the Bay Oval on Friday, putting down three straightforward catches, losing three wickets in the first over of their stiff chase, presenting the excellent Matt Henry with career-best figures, crashing to 89 all out and suffering their second heaviest defeat (by 244 runs) in terms of runs.

Shreyas Iyer couldn’t have asked for a worse start to his brief regime as stand-in captain. Apart from the toss, nothing went right for him in the fourth One-Day International as New Zealand totally bossed the exchanges to cut India’s lead to 1-2 in the five-match showdown, ahead of the final encounter on Sunday at the same venue.