India Vs New Zealand 2nd ODI Compaq Cup Highlights
September 12, 2009 by Trend PK
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India Vs New Zealand 2nd ODI Compaq Cup Highlights, Scoreline: (Toss – NZ) NZ 155 all out | Ashish Nehra, Yuvraj Singh 3 wickets each India get there in 40.3 overs Sachin Tendulkar 46 (55), Raina 45 (54) no, Dhoni 35 (65) no
The New Zealand Top 4 are one of the more attractive lineups around and so I suppose, you’ll have to give allowance for this sort of a performance. While the pitch was a tough one with a dubious record against teams batting 2nd (11 straight losses), maybe an Elliott moving up to break the flair and aggression might have been a better idea – but that’s just impotent selection committee drivel.
Nehra and RP Singh are natural swing bowlers, so they did get some of that, but mostly the Kiwis fell to their disciplined sustained pressure and no one, not even Vettori, could go beyond the twenties as Yuvraj successfully chucked inedible pies.
Tendulkar came out looking like he was playing on a different wicket, other than when Vettori came on. The result of the little exhibition he put on was that Dravid shedding bucketloads of sweat for not much didn’t make that painful a viewing at the other end. The unfortunate thing is that Dravid actually looked good when he started today but then entered the most scary kind of Dravid-play where he repeatedly finds the fielders. More often than not, when he gets stuck in those phases, he pretty much remains there. The good thing though is that, he’s able to snap out of it by the next game. But rarely within the same game.
Bond was super as he has been and tested Raina who’s been having extended sessions with Tendulkar and Dravid to combat the short ball. Doesn’t seem to have put any of their thoughts to use yet, though a sluggish pitch like this might not be the best place to judge this aspect of the game.
Now that NZ are out, the India-SL match tomorrow has been reduced to a sizing each other up event.
Pre-match space waster: Can’t recall Tendulkar having this long a non-injury related break in the latter half of his career – usually he does return from a break spectacularly – player bias aside, plenty to look forward to in this game, apart from Ryder and Ishanth picking up from where they left off in the 5th ODI earlier this year.
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