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India vs New Zealand ODI Highlights – Compaq Cup
India 156 for 4 (Tendulkar 46, Raina 45*) beat New Zealand 155 (Nehra 3-24, Yuvraj 3-31) by six wickets
Vettori: “When you win the toss here you want to put up a competitive total. The wickets gets easier when you have played yourself in; I found it that my self. Dhoni and Raina showed it as well. Some of our boys would be disappointed. It wasn’t a bad fight back from us; we put them under some pressure. You can’t expect to play on good decks all the time, when you come across deck like this you need to adapt.”
Dhoni: “We wanted to get them out as cheap as possible. Nehra did well and then Yuvraj singh, our new find with the ball, did a good job. Sachin gave us a good start … Raina also batted well with me. Every body was slightly tensed at the start of the game [as India are playing after a break]… the bowlers bowled really well. If there was one more spinner like Yuvi in their side, we would have been under more pressure. [on no 1] Frankly we are not thinking about it. We are just concentrating on what we do in the field. If we play good cricket, we eventually would be no 1 team in the world.”
Man of the Match: Nehra : “I was struggling because of the injuries but I am back on track for the last 6-7 months. I wasn’t too nervous today. I have been bowling well in the recent months and I just want to concentrate on line and length. The important thing was to pick up early wickets.”
Stylish player of the day Tendulkar wins a bike.
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India vs New Zealand, Day 4, Highlights, 3rd Test
Watch cricket highlights: India vs New Zealand 3rd Test Day 4 at Wellington
Scoreline: India 434/7 declared. Yuvraj Singh 40, MS Dhoni 56. NZ – Target 617 – currently 167/4 – Ross Taylor 69 no, Martin Guptill 49. Rahul Dravid now holds the world record for most number of catches in test cricket.
India batted for a while today and through Yuvraj (quick runs) and Dhoni (runs + grind-em-in-the-field) set up an impossible target of 617.
Martin Guptill faced some hostile stuff from Zaheer Khan but looked really good only to yet again disappoint after a good start. It came down to Ross Taylor yet again after Jesse Ryder fell and after a did-it-didn’t-it-carry moment was still batting on 69.
Rahul Dravid has been finding it tough to go past Mark Waugh’s record of 181 catches in the last year – it started around the India vs Aus series. In fact, at that time his personal run-scoring form was at its all-time low causing Mark Waugh to quip – hope he gets a couple of ducks, gets dropped and never gets a chance to break my record.
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India vs New Zealand 3rd Test Highlights Day 3
Watch cricket highlights – Day 3 – India vs New Zealand 3rd Test highlights from Wellington.
Scoreline: (midway through post-lunch session) – India 349/5 – Gautham Gambhir hundred 167, Rahul Dravid 60, VVS Laxman 61. India lead by 531 runs.
The famed Indian batting lineup on display yet again. For NZ, the real bright moment was Brendon McCullum’s catch of Rahul Dravid (detailed version). Dravid took 22 balls to add to his overnight score of 9, but after that played quite beautifully before that crazy moment snuck his wicket away.
When Gautham Gambhir first seriously came into the Indian cricket team, it was in the T20 and ODI formats. At that time, he went through this incredibly lucky and streaky phase and I like many dismissed him as being plain lucky and not to be compared with another left-hander – Sourav Ganguly – whose place he’d taken in ODI cricket. But the past year and a half have been so brilliant for Gambhir that a lot of India’s success in test cricket has stemmed from his ridiculous partnership with Sehwag at the top. Remember all those years when Dravid was a virtual opener and Tendulkar for over 18 years walked in at 20/2. And now, another series goes by with Gambhir stamping himself all over it. Super.
And of course, VVS continues to improve his record against teams other than Australia.
Just saw a statistic – this series is Gambhir’s fourth 300+runs-in-a-series in a row – the only Indian to have done this ever.
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India vs New Zealand 3rd Test Highlights Day 2
Watch cricket highlights – India vs New Zealand Day 2, 3rd Test highlights from Wellington.
Scoreline: India 379 all out. NZ 197 all out – Ross Taylor 42. Zaheer Khan 5 wickets, MS Dhoni 6 catches. India 2nd Innings 51/1
Super bowling by Zaheer Khan. Obviously, ya admin moron, we know that. Well ok.
For New Zealand only Ross Taylor looked really assured and did give off signs of a cool knock coming up. Unfortunately, we’ll never know because of what appears to be a wrong decision.
Even if you acknowledge the super bowling by Zaheer, Ishanth and Harbhajan, NZ will probably feel they shouldn’t have been bowled out way before the end of play on Day 2. Looks downhill from here for NZ unless India repeat what they did.
I think Dravid might just come out tomorrow and play a more run-scoring knock tomorrow as opposed to his 1st innings one.
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India vs New Zealand, 3rd Test, Day 4, Live Cricket
Well only one team can win but question is when will India declare. They should not do the same mistake as England did against West Indies by declaring late which allowed West Indies to defend four and half sessions to draw the match. I think declaring before lunch is good enough to set 600+ target and also give ample time for bowlers to pick 10 wickets.
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India vs New Zealand 3rd Test Highlights Day 1
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Watch cricket highlights: India vs New Zealand day 1 highlights from the 3rd Test played at Wellington on April 2, 2009.
Scoreline: India 375/9 – Sachin Tendulkar 62, Harbhajan Singh 60, MS Dhoni 52, Virender Sehwag 48
A day that swung either way repeatedly. The last couple of years have seen Tendulkar playing as well as ever with a couple of differences – he looks more serene now but the amazing conversion ratio (50s into hundreds) he had has reduced. Anyway, the 62 runs especially those scored in the post-lunch session were worth any landmark. Dravid was disappointing today ( 35 – 114 balls, 183 mins) harking back to all those terrible years which saw him once take – was it 60 or 80 balls to get off the mark in the late 1990s. It wasn’t that bad today but a meaningless innings on the 1st day of a test match. Especially when you consider he’s been playing pretty well this series.
The NZ bowlers bowled better than their eventual loot because of several streaky moments in the lower order going India’s way. A very entertaining knock from Harbhajan in any case. And to see Munaf Patel smiling eerily after attempting to pull off a Tendulkar – definitely worth a sleepless night.
The post-tea session had these crazy figures – 35 overs – 185 runs – 4 wickets
India vs New Zealand, 3rd Test, Day 1, Live Cricket Streaming
Toss: New Zealand have put India in to bat.
Dhoni is back. For New Zealand, Flynn and Southee get into the playing eleven
Vettori: We are trying to work the best strategy to win the game. Normally, in turn, and if we look at this field [brown and bone dry], and I believe it is bat first but we hope you make some things here. The new ball in the first place gives us a chance to do something, if India get off to a good first got back.
Dhoni: If we had won the toss would have batted first. It is a bold step forward for New Zealand. We are very pleased with the preparation. We as a team to know when preparing and when to have a session (the rest).
Pitch report Sky Sports’ Doul Simon: "It sounds like a good batting surface. There are 20-25 mm on the left to the grass surface, but it is all dry. There would be a bit of movement around the seam. It’s going to be a very important first time for the players. It will be a good pace even track and will last for five days. They should make full use of the first hour and a half, there is another lot of hard work by the players. "
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India vs New Zealand Day 5 Highlights 2nd Test
Watch cricket highlights – India vs New Zealand 2nd Napier Test Day 5 highlights.
Scoreline: India 476/4 – VVS Laxman 124 no, Gautham Gambhir 137, Yuvraj Singh 54 no. Match drawn.
With Gambhir eating up time and Laxman scoring as he normally does in the morning session, both time and the NZ lead were gradually wiped out until a stalemate situation forced the two teams to agree to a draw. Eventually, the post-tea session was mainly an exhibition in batting. Lovely hundred by VVS while Yuvraj helped himself to a 50 before calling it quits for the match.
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India vs New Zealand Day 4 Highlights 2nd Test
Watch cricket highlights – India vs New Zealand – 2nd Napier Test Day 4 highlights
Scoreline: India 252/2. Gautham Gambhir 102 no Sachin Tendulkar 58 Rahul Dravid 62
There’s a reason you still back this Indian batting line-up despite following on and that was on show today. It wasn’t that the NZ bowlers or fielding was lame. In fact the bowling was for the most part disciplined with Martin moving the ball and off the pitch and the spinners bowling tight. Just a combination of good (Gambhir and Dravid) and great (Tendulkar) batting. Dravid despite pulling out a super shot here and there was mostly in flared-nostrils-pained-look mode – 62 off 220. A little unnecessary considering this was only the 4th day, but what Dravid’s knock did was give the NZ bowlers no opening at all considering they’d have walked into the morning session expecting to wrap this up today. He did get a bad decision but he did also get away off a no-ball-that-never-was in the 1st innings. Gambhir played very well for a follow-on situation – mostly looking to score except when he got stuck in the 80s, something he has often done in the past.
Tendulkar walked out in coaching-lessons mode and played as well as he ever has – always looking to score – in fact the main reason India only trail by 62 going into Day 5.
India vs New Zealand 2nd Test Highlights Day 3
Watch cricket highlights – India vs New Zealand – Day 3 highlights from the 2nd Napier Test.
Scoreline: India 305 all out – VVS Laxman 76, Rahul Dravid 83, Sachin Tendulkar 49. India follow on and were 47/1.
India resumed today with Dravid and Tendulkar bearing the cumbersome onus of battling out a draw for India.Tendulkar was divine while he was at it – Dravid was semi-vintage in patches and scrappy in others – that was still good enough to get him 83. But the best batting of the day came from VVS who pulled out all his flicks and drives.
The good thing though India ended up following on was that everyone looked pretty intent on getting on with the game and not stepping into that resigned tortured mode we’ve seen so often over the years.
Some of the NZ commentators described Sehwag’s dismissal as arrogant but it’s that sort of game that set up the recent famous win over England at Chennai. If it hadn’t come off that day he’d have looked dumb. But since it did, he was given the Man of the Match despite Tendulkar’s hundred that won the game on Day 5.
It’s still a little too early to describe this test as being gone from India’s point of view – the follow on might actually work to their advantage.
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