India
vs
New Zealand
Date: 20- Mar
Gambhir and Dravid added 105 after Virender Sehwag had been run out early in the morning. They rotated the strike and though there were passages of relative quiet, the loose ball was invariably put away. That was especially true right after lunch, with Vettori and Chris Martin taken for several boundaries. But Martin struck just when things were looking bleak, coming round the wicket to induce the edge through to Brendon McCullum. Gambhir made 72 from 135 balls.
Tendulkar took 11 balls to get off the mark, but with Dravid cutting beautifully, the run rate didn't suffer. Another stroke past point off Kyle Mills took him to a half-century from 108 balls and when he followed it with a lovely cover-drive off Iain O'Brien, things were looking ominous. But O'Brien had the final say, getting one to nip back a shade off the seam and hit the top of off stump.
