India vs New Zealand ODI Series
Matches so far: 2, India leads the series 1-0 after winning the 1st ODI and the 2nd ODI abandoned due to rain.
The 3rd ODI is scheduled for 8th March. Venue: AMI Stadium, Christchurch. Live on TV : Watch the 3rd ODI Live on Set Max from 6:30 am. Use the response button at the end of the post to post your info on free live cricket streaming and cricket sopcast / cricket videos links for the India New Zealand Series.
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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.
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India were effectively outplayed by the home team in the first twenty20 match of the series at Christchurch. If you watched the match live, it was unbelievable how the Indian batting collapsed after the way they started.
Well, that was that. Wellington, the Kiwi Capital will host the India vs New Zealand 2nd Twenty20 Match tomorrow. One can expect that the Indian team will have learnt from its mistakes in the first match, and put up a better performance tomorrow. They will also have been better acclimatised by now to the New Zealand conditions, and that should help.
The New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori put in a brilliant display with the ball and was easily the best bowler of the match from either side. The Indian offie Harbhajan Singh also bowled very well. Both bowled quick and flat, making it that much more difficult to play shots. That may prompt India to rethink its team combination, though I don’t think it will ultimately happen.
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Former India pacer and one of my favourite cricket players, Javagal Srinath thinks that one of the important areas that India need to sort out on their tour of New Zealand is the third seamer. While hailing India’s opening pair of bowlers as the best in world cricket today, Srinath added that the third seamer has been a problem area for Indian cricket with any number of bowlers walking in and out of that slot.
The former India spearhead thinks that Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma have been doing a fabulous job for the team, inconsistenct performances by the third partner means that the two leading bowlers are being forced to take undue load. That will mean the two bowlers tiring out early.
While in the short term that has an immediate bearing on the current match, extra load also means greater chances of injury being caused to these bowlers, who are vital to the success of the team. Let’s hope that the team management will be able to sort out this issue during the tour of New Zealand.
The first India vs New Zealand match is on the 25th February. We will keep you updated here with the live cricket from the series, and also with info on live cricket streaming for the India - Newzealand series.
Only the BCCI could have had the gall to do this. For years players had been cribbing about the fact that the BCCI put in place only one tour game on overseas cricket tours - now the BCCI has gone a step further, on India’s upcoming tour of New Zealand they have scrapped that one practise game too!
At the expense of that fixture, India will now play an extra test and an extra T20 game. Of course, the cancelled tour to Pakistan has allowed the Indian cricket team considerable breathing space, and they are now slated to arrive in New Zealand at least a week earlier than planned. India will now reach New Zealand on 20th February and play their first match - a T20 match vs New Zealand on Feb 25th at Christchurch.
Napier will hold the extra test.
Here’s the full match schedule of the India vs Newzealand Series to held in February & March 2009 in New Zealand.
Friday 6th March
India vs New Zealand
Only T20 Match - Live Cricket Streaming of the match starts 11:30 am India Time (IST) and 6:00 am GMT
Sunday 8th March
1st One Day International - Mc Lean Park, Napier
Live Cricket Streaming starts 6:30 am India Time, 1:00 am GMT
Wednesday 11th March
2nd One Day International - Seddon Park, Hamilton
Live Telecast of the match starts 6:30 am India Time, 1:00 GMT
Saturday 14th March
3rd ODI - Eden Park, Auckland
Live on Star Cricket
Tuesday 17th March
4th India-Newzealand One Day
WestPac Stadium, Wellington
Friday 20th March
5th ODI - India vs New Zealand
Venue: AMI Stadium, Christchurch
All the five one day matches of the series are day-night affairs. You can watch live telecast of the matches on Star Cricket. You can look for Free Live Cricket Streaming Links in this website.