Seventeen-year-old Prithvi Shaw gave glimpses of his immense talent as a young Board President's XI comfortably beat New Zealand by 30 runs in their opening warm-up game, here on Tuesday.
Batting first Board President's XI scored 295 for 9 in 50 overs and then bowled out the tourists for 265 in 47.4 overs.
Facing a senior international side for the first time, local boy Prithvi scored 66 off 80 balls with nine boundaries and a six, putting up 147 for the opening stand with Kl Rahul, who contributed 68 off 75 balls.
Karun Nair also got some form going his way with 78 off 64 balls.
Shahbaz Nadeem, who has had a good A series against New Zealand recently, once again had the best figures of 3/41 while defending the target. Just like their A team, the senior stars also looked clueless against the Indian tweakers.
hul threw his wicket in the 26th over, after being caught by substitute Nicholls at short-fine leg off Ish Sodhi.
Prithvi, who brought up his 50 in 62 balls and finally gave Henry Nicholls a catch at long off, with Mitchell Santner getting his first wicket.
When the Black Caps batted, Martin Guptill hit a quickfire 20-ball-22 before being dismissed. His partner, Colin Munro (26 of 41 balls) conjured a 69- run second-wicket stand with skipper Kane Williamson (47 off 49 balls) who studded seven fours in his innings.
Nearing team total of 100, Munro spooned a catch to Prithvi off Nadeem.
Williamson, too, didn't last long with Karn Sharma holding on to a return catch.
The visitors were left struggling at 107 for 3. Tom latham (59 off 63 balls), who usually opens the batting, came in at number 5. He had a 73-run stand with No 4 Ross Taylor (32 off 47 balls).
The Kiwis needed 146 in the last 20 overs, but the big shots were missing.
In the 36th over, Khan stuck removing well-settled Ross Taylor, who nicked to Pant and after that the Kiwis lost wickets at regular intervals.