Young has a close shave. He miscues the lofted shot off Kuldeep but is lucky that the ball falls well short of Rohit rushing in from long-off.
A much better over from Kuldeep as he gives away just five singles.
Prasidh, who took 1/20 in five overs in his first spell, is back into the attack.
Mitchell eases the first ball down to long-on for one before Young misses the clip as the ball strikes the pads for a leg bye.
Mitchell misses out on some runs as he fails to connect with the full toss on the pads and another full toss is gently tapped to midwicket for four dots in a row.
Kuldeep continues as Young rocks back to cut the spinner's first ball behind point for three runs and Mitchell takes one off the next.
Mitchell mistimes the slog sweep as it falls well short of deep midwicket for a single to race to his fifty from 52 balls.
The game is in the balance with New Zealand on 126/2 in 27 overs, needing another 159 for victory at an asking rate of 6.91.
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