India, Nov. 15 -- Bowlers once again came to India's rescue in a low scoring fifth ODI at Mount Maunganui, helping the visitors win by 22 runs and snap New Zealand's unbeaten home streak spanning seven years and 11 consecutive bilateral ODI series.

Chasing a seemingly easy target of 209, New Zealand were pegged back by India's pace quartet of Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Auqib Nabi and debutant Yash Thakur who shared seven wickets among them.

New Zealand captain Mitchell Santner held off India with a valiant 24 off 31 balls but was caught off the golden arm of Naman Dhir before the rest of the lower order was dismissed with 11 balls remaining.

After the quick, debasing defeat on Friday, this turned out to be a slow burn victory for ...