For New Zealand, this was a do or die scenario in the Compaq Cup. But much like the first ODI of the Compaq Cup, New Zealand failed to ignite with the bat, but the Indian bowling demolition squad was at its best.
ashish nehra
Ashish Nehra had another fine performance to show for his comeback into the Indian team. The Indian showed little signs of rustiness and immediately hit the mark. New Zealand did not have a lot of confidence going into the match after their batting collapse in the first match against Sri Lanka and they would not have felt differently after this performance.
Pegging the New Zealand at the crease, Nehra sent back both New Zealand openers, Jesse Ryder and Brendon McCullum, in less than three overs with identical and deadly lbw decisions.
New Zealand plunged further from three for nineteen when R.P. Singh picked up Ross Taylor to five for sixty-six as Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, introduced the left arm spin of Yuvraj Singh.
Fives scores of twenty plus were not going to put a challenging total on board and Yuvraj accounted for Grant Elliot, Martin Guptill and Neil Broom to dent the New Zealand recovery. Daniel Vettori became another of the twenty plus men but Yuvraj and nehra did enough with three wicket returns as New Zealand capitalated for 155 in the forty-seventh over.
New Zealand's hope is now statistics. The Premadasa Stadium has a reputation for teams batting first winning. New Zealand will be praying Premadasa keeps this promise.
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