Suresh Raina and Mahendra Singh Dhoni batted sensibly to guide India to the tri-series final with an emphatic six-wicket victory over New Zealand here on Friday.

India beat NZ by 6 wickets with 57 deliveries to spare.By loosing this match New Zealand ended up their tournament.New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat first, made a complete mess of things and eneded up with 155 runs.

India Started their inningswith Sachin Tendulakar and Dinesh karthik.Sachin Tendulkar (46) and Rahul Dravid then built on their bowlers' efforts, putting on 60 for the second wicketAfter the fall of opener Dinesh Karthik (four) in the third over of the innings.

Dravid, contributed 14 before being trapped leg-before by paceman Jacom Oram.

Tendulkar, fell in the next over when he gave a simple catch to Martin Guptill in the covers off left-arm spinner Daniel Vettori.

Yuvraj (8 ) caught by Guptill at mid-wicket.

Raina and skipper Dhoni added 72 crucial runs for the fifth wicket as India recovered from 84-4 to surpass New Zealand's modest total of 155.

Raina smashed two sixes and three fours in his unbeaten 45, while Dhoni hit four boundaries in 35 not not.

Man-of-the-match Nehra rocked the top order when he trapped Jesse Ryder leg-before with the third delivery and then dismissed Brendon McCullum in a similar fashion in his next over for his 100th wicket in one-dayers.

Yuvraj dismissed Grant Elliott (22) and Guptill (22) before accounting for Neil Broom (21).

Match details:

Toss New Zealand, who chose to bat
Points India 4, New Zealand
Player of the match A Nehra (India)