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India completely outclassed the home team in the rain-shortened 1st One Day Iternational on the 3rd March at Napier. That the twenty20 failures were more of an abberation that anything else was amply proved in the 1st One Day where New Zealand were comprehensively beaten. Especially visible was the vast chasm between the batting talents of the two teams. The shorter twenty20 matches didn’t allow the Indian batsmen who had just reached New Zealand any time to settle down. Here players like Dhoni had the time to play around, get settled before playing their shots. If you were watching the live streaming of the match or the live telecast of the match on TV, you would know what i mean - for a good inital part of his innings, Dhoni was just collecting singles and his strike rate was hovering around the 60 mark. However by the end of his innings, he was striking at near 100!
However, if you are ruling out New Zealand this early, it is at your own peril. Daniel Vettori is a great captain - I definitely rate him as the best captain in cricket today, yes even higher than Dhoni. He may not have a better team, but Vettori is a great tactician and he is on his home turf. A win tomorrow and New Zealand will be back in the series.
You can share your live cricket streaming stuff - cricket sopcasts/webcasts/oox and all in the response area after this post. Live Telecast of the India New Zealand 2nd one day at Wellington can be viewed on Set Max from 6:30 am.
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