India vs NZL ==> 7th and Last ODI

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Series is anyway decided…but Will India make it 3 in a row?
This will give indians much needed confidence going into WorldCup.
This is time for fe of big 3 to fire in this match.SO far in this torunament Dravid,ganguly and Sachin have struggled.Infecl batsmen from both teams except Shehwag has struggled in this series for.
Hope this wicket of Hamilton is better than test wicket and we will get to see some runs.*

http://www-usa.cricket.org/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NEWS/2003/JAN/121197_INDINNZ_13JAN2003.html
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Win and runs would be the perfect send-off to World Cup**

Runs, runs, runs has to be the hope for both sides when the seventh and final match of the National Bank Series is played in Hamilton tomorrow.

Conditions couldn’t be more of a contrast from those that greeted the sides that met here three weeks ago for the second Test of their series.

The pitch looks a much better proposition, but then after all the pitch problems of this series, it is once again a case of wait and see.

But as the last official outing for the two sides before the World Cup, it is important for both to get their two order batsmen among the runs.

New Zealand are still without their preferred batting options with Nathan Astle opening and Craig McMillan at No 3. Mathew Sinclair will open again with Stephen Fleming and Chris Harris will be at No 3.

Fleming was confident the pitch would be better on this occasion because the groundsman had prepared the ground in a different way and it had been ready for a day and a half.

“It looks a very good surface and it would be great if we could finish on a positive note. The pitch has been used before which is an interesting way to prepare and maybe if it plays well it is something we have to look at a little bit more,” he said.

“We’ve won only 36% of our games so we are in no position to think we have got a strength anywhere. Part of the process this summer has been exploring areas we see as a strength, getting them stronger and strengthening up other areas at the same time.”

New Zealand had been off the mark with their bowling in the last game, but they couldn’t afford to be off the mark in any aspect of their game.

Little mistakes had crept in when they had not been challenged and going into the last game they had to create challenges, which was the same in all the games since they had taken a 4-0 lead.

"We’ve looked at areas of strength in the past and put them in the bank. What we need to do is develop different people in that area so that it can be done better.

“What we have done is put players under pressure in different areas looking for a positive response,” he said.

The side was looking to turn over every stone in developing a style because the style of the past had not been good enough.

Fleming said they side was closer to the desired philosophy for the World Cup and while there were concerns with form at the top of the order, the philosophy was proving sound.

New Zealand’s preparation had been thrown further into disarray as the result of the ear infection suffered by Shane Bond. Wicket-keeper Brendon McCullum was also being checked out after suffering dizzy spells.

As a back-up for Bond, Paul Hitchcock will join the side in Hamilton.

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Booring. Another Indian batting collapse. Or maybe NZ will take pity this time. :hehe:

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Very boring series, same old story, boring performances by both sides, the winner wins by luck.

Black Caps all the way!!!!!

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yawn
same old story
india is in disarray :stuck_out_tongue:

44 / 6 after 16.5 overz

NZ on the top :slight_smile: :k:

Rab Rakha

DerVaisH

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India now 68/6 now. After winning two games in a row…seems like the Indian team is back on its track :hehe:

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eey lo
once again "i come u go" story !

good partnership b/w Y.Singh and Kumble though. These 2 have added 44 runs till now (half of the total score)

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Yuvraj and Sehwag, the only 2 decent performers in the Indian side, well done.

Congratulations to Ganguly for getting past 10 runs :rotfl: :rotfl:

Lets see how does India’s best batsman Extra Singh performs!

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122 all out,,
adams taking 4.
sad performance :(

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India all out for 122. It is a pity that the top players could not adjust their technique to the changing conditions.

The pitch may be bad, but still it is no excuse for our top guys to show such poor performance.

Their match fee should be deducted and fined.

What a shame! These guys never learn.

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[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Victory: *
India all out for 122. It is a pity that the top players could not adjust their technique to the changing conditions.

The pitch may be bad, but still it is no excuse for our top guys to show such poor performance.

Their match fee should be deducted and fined.

What a shame! These guys never learn.
[/QUOTE]

sure its a pitty for the poor indians

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as i said after th 5th ODI ...... ind gonna win the 6th ODI to go down again in the 7th .....

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Styris gone B by Kumble

some hope for Ind ??? :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

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maybe too much cricket for them to play with the WC around the corner .... atleast their body language is telling they need a rest now

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28.4 Srinath to Vincent, FOUR, and there it is, the series is over, full
        outside off stump, Vincent drives it very nicely through cover,
        goes all the way and New Zealand win by 6 wickets with 21.2 overs
        to spare to take the series 5-2
       a fair reflection of the series, which saw low total after low
        total, barring the match in Napier - the only game where a side
        won batting first (and scored 200+)
       Fleming ends up an accomplished 60 not out, showing some maturity
        in the opening role, particularly in the absense of Astle, and
        played very well to hold it all together when New Zealand were
        dicing with danger at 32/3
       Styris gave very solid support to his senior partner when he came
        to the crease at that stage, scoring 29 of an 84-run stand for the
        4th wicket, before Vincent iced the cake at the end
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dismal performance by the indian team....
i hope they keep it up :d

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India back on track ! congratulations to NZ.

The way Flemings (and Indian tail )played looks like it was atleast a 200 runs pitch but wo hee sad story for Indian batting.

Big Three were huge let-downs in ODI Series](http://www.cricketnext.com/news1/next/ramaswamy/swamy558.htm)
By S S Ramaswamy
Mumbai, January 14, 2003

The biggest letdowns as far as India are concerned during the seven-match ODI series in New Zealand were the Big Three in the batting order.

Skipper Saurav Ganguly, his deputy Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar had fired in unison so spectacularly in the Leeds Test against England and the result was a thumping victory over the hosts in conditions that were similar to the ones in New Zealand which enabled the squad to return home with the four-match series all level.

But the same trio of batsmen, with a huge collective experience of international cricket and tons of runs and centuries to their credit, never buckled down to the task of trying to stay at the wicket and help the team bat out the entire 50 overs during the one-day series in New Zealand.

This is the most difficult part for the fans to swallow even as excuses of seaming pitches were touted out day in and out by the team’s management.

The fact is that even if one among this senior trio of batsmen had bothered to stay at the wicket till the 30 or 35th over of the innings the Indian totals could have been such that they could have put pressure on this fragile New Zealand batting line up. At the very least the team would have been able to play out their quota of overs.

Just have a look at the scores of the Big Three in the seven ODIs:

Ganguly: 14, 0, 4, 2, 0, 23 and 15 for an average of just over 8 per innings.

Dravid: 20, 18, 20, 18, 7, 21 and 12 for an average of just over 16 per innings.

Tendulkar: (who missed the first four matches due to an ankle injury): 0, 1 and 1 for a truly dismal average of below one, an all-time low for the champion batsman.

Among the three it was Dravid who spent the most time in the middle but yet failed to prosper beyond a certain extent. Yes, at times he got unplayable balls, but on other occasions he was frustrated into making a false shot.

Ganguly looked in awful touch in the first five matches of the series. He did make a 14 in the opener after being dropped twice. It was in the last two matches that he looked determined to buckle down to the task only to perish by trying to play an expansive shot.

Tendulkar missed vital match practice, but this is no excuse for his dismal show throughout the tour barring one innings in the Test series. He seemed to be bogged down by something whenever he came on to bat in the ODI series, and things were not helped much when he was given out wrongly in the fifth match of the one-day event, his first in the rubber.

There are now columns appearing in newspapers penned by people who are touring New Zealand with the Indian squad that the master batsman is not happy batting at number four. If there exists any grain of truth in this statement, the team management would do well to sit with him and sort out the issue. No individual is above the team, but at the same time a key player like Tendulkar needs to be talked to if he’s genuinely unhappy going down the order.

While this trio of seasoned batsmen flopped miserably two young guns too failed to deliver – Dinesh Mongia and Mohd Kaif. Both proved unequal to the task of combating bowler-friendly conditions in total contrast to the other Young Turk – Yuvraj Singh.

The few consolations for India from this dismal series have been the stroke-filled, but chancy, centuries by Virender Sehwag who showed again that on his day very little can stop him, the maturity shown by Yuvraj Singh in the lower order and the bowling of Zaheer Khan and veteran Javagal Srinath.

But for these four players the ODI series would have been one unmitigated disaster for the Indian team. How soon the squad recovers from this morale-shattering tour on its return home is vital now for its chances to get a boost in the World Cup that’s just round the corner.

::: S S Ramaswamy
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Once again Tendulkar has proven to be the worlds best batsman, who plays match winning innings ;)

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At least he tried - and did not chicken out like some people :)

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Correction - He did chicken out for the first few matches :hehe:

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If he had to chicken out he would have faked his injury for the entire series and would have deen dancing with some Bollywood Stars a la Rawalpindi Passenger :hehe: