Watch: Jhulan Goswami Bowls The 'Perfect Delivery' To Clean Bowl New Zealand's Batting Great

The Indian women's cricket team lost their third match in a row on their tour of New Zealand to surrender the five match series. New Zealand women chased down a stiff target of 280 runs in the third ODI to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. The Indians did well to post a challenging total of 279 run son the board but New Zealand's middle-order came out all guns blazing to eventually take their team over the line with 5 balls to spare.

But things were not looking great for the hosts at the start of the innings as India's legendary pacer Jhulan Goswami removed both openers, including captain Sophie Devine and legendary batter Suzie Bates.

While Devine was trapped in front of the wicket in the very first over for a duck, Jhulan produced a magical delivery to get past the defence of Bates and clean bowled the veteran batter.

Peach of a delivery

It was the third delivery of the third over of the innings and Bates tried to play straight drive on the up, but the ball sneaked through the gap between bat and pad and hit the stumps. Bates is the highest run-getter in women's ODIs for New Zealand, while Jhulan is the all-time leading wicket taker in the women's 50-over game.

This was the second highest run chase in women's ODI cricket history. New Zealand needed 105 runs from the last 15 overs and 64 from 10 with four wickets in hand and the Indians failed to polish off the home side's lower order.

Down and Katey Martin (35) made life difficult for the Indian bowlers with a 76-run stand for the seventh wicket.

New Zealand needed 18 runs from the final two overs and Goswami conceded 12 in the penultimate over before Down, who was dropped on 10, hit a six in the first ball of the final over bowled by Deepti