'Would love to get another win' – Suzie Bates

New Zealand have scripted a remarkable turnaround in the ongoing series against India. After losing the first couple of ICC Women's Championship one-day internationals, they've won three on the trot – the third ODI, as well as the first two of three T20Is.

Even with the T20I series under their belt, they're keen to keep up the intensity, and want to make it 3-0 in Hamilton. The win might help New Zealand recover from the pain to losing against India in the ICC Women's World T20 in the Caribbean last year.

"We'd love to get another win," said Bates, who made a remarkably composed 62 in her side's successful chase of 136. "We lost to India in the World T20 and that really hurt a lot of us, and we just want to show that we can play some really positive cricket and consistently."

After those rather tame defeats to India in the first couple of ODIs, New Zealand seem to have woken up from their slumber and have simply not allowed the visitors to gain the upper-hand since then. Bates attributes the reversal in fortunes to 'positive' cricket.

"I think just really positive cricket," she said. "I think the way Sophie played the spinners in that first T20, the way we played them in the third ODI... we just really decided to take it to them and not let them settle, and I think those partnerships between the top-order (batters) really helped us kick on."

But the chase wasn't without hiccups. Bates had set the game up excellently, but her dismissal was sandwiched between the wickets of Amy Satterthwaite and Katie Martin, two other experienced players. In the end the chase got tough, but youngsters Leigh Kasperek and Hannah Rowe kept their nerve to pull it off without a delivery to spare. Bates was impressed with how the youngsters had responded to the pressure.

"Katie Martin, Amy and I got out at bad times and it would've been nice for one of us to be there with one of the young players, but that's the most pleasing thing... they showed probably more poise than some of the more senior players in that situation," said Bates.

For India, there are areas to improve on, most notably the batting, which has been over-reliant on the likes of Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues. Although both batters have been amongst the runs in the two games, the others simply haven't been able to step up. But skipper Harmanpreet Kaur is seeing the positives.

"We are here to play good cricket, and today's game I think we did really well," she said. "Our bowlers bowled really well becuase earlier, whenever we were defending 130-140, it wasn't easy for us, but today our bowlers did really well. All over we played good cricket and overall it's a good lesson for us. Most of the girls have played less than 10 T20Is. I think it's a good learning process."