India beat New Zealand in 2nd ODI of Compaq Cup | Ind vs NZ Match Highlights

A clinical Indian team pulled out yet another win as they move closer to the number 1 position in ODI rankings. Couple of good partnerships first between Rahul Dravid (14) and Sachin Tendulkar (46) and between MS Dhoni (35*) and Suresh Raina (45 not out) saw them thru of the very sorry total which New Zealand batsmen managed to set a target for India to chase.

Early in the day Ashish Nehra had a wonderful comeback clinching early wickets to put NZ in the backfoot, which never allowed them to gain any kind of momentum. Yuvraj amazed the New Zealand batsmen with his variation in the leg spin which he fastened the batsmen thus claiming 3 important wickets.

In all a very good collaborative performance by India and they now await to play Sri Lanka today.

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Compaq Cup - IND vs NZ 2nd ODI Live Score| India vs New Zealnd 2nd ODI Scorecard & Commentary

In the Compaq Cup (Sri Lanka, India and New Zealand - Triangular Series) India will play 2nd match of this triangular series against New Zealand who already lost its first match against Sri Lanka by 97 runs. The Match will start on 11th September, 2009 at at R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo at 14:30 local/IST, 09:00 GMT.

New Zealand have lost the first ODI match in Compaq cup tri-series against Sri Lanka and also they have lost the ODI series against India earlier this year. But New Zealand have won the two T20 matches against Sri Lanka and friday match against India is a must win for them to reach finals in the Compaq cup tri-series 2009.

India will play the first match of this tri series against New Zealand after a long time. Unfortunately, The both openers (Virender Sehwag & Gautam Gambhir) will not be avialable for this series but India got back Rahul Dravid who can give stability in middle order. As per the stats, If india will win all the matches of this tri series then India will become the number 1 odi team in ICC ODI Cricket Rankings.
New Zealand Team for 2nd ODI of Compaq Cup:

Daniel Vettori (captain), Neil Broom, Jesse Ryder, Ross Taylor, Ian Butler, Brendon Diamanti, Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, Gareth Hopkins (wk), Brendon McCullum (wk), Nathan McCullum, Shane Bond, Kyle Mills, Jacob Oram, Jeetan Patel

India Team for 2nd ODI of Compaq Cup:

Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni (capt/wk), Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Ashish Nehra, RP Singh, Amit Mishra, Dinesh Karthik and Abhishek Nayar

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