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India vs New Zealand Cricket Series 2008-09
India will play 5 ODIs, 3 Tests and 2 T20 during the New Zealand tour starting February 25, 2009.
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India vs New Zealand Cricket Series 2008-09
Schedule- Wed 25, February 2009 (D/N): 1st Twenty20 - New Zealand v India at Christchurch
- Fri 27, February 2009 (D/N): 2nd Twenty20 - New Zealand v India at Wellington
- Tue 03, March 2009 (D/N): 1st ODI - New Zealand v India at Napier
- Fri 06, March 2009 (D/N): 2nd ODI - New Zealand v India at Wellington
- Sun 08, March 2009 (D/N): 3rd ODI - New Zealand v India at Christchurch
- Wed 11, March 2009 (D/N): 4th ODI - New Zealand v India at Hamilton
- Sat 14, March 2009 (D/N): 5th ODI - New Zealand v India at Auckland
- Wed 18-Sun 22, March 2009: 1st Test - New Zealand v India at Hamilton
- Thu 26-Mon 30, March 2009: 2nd Test - New Zealand v India at Napier
- Fri 03-Tue 07, April 2009: 3rd Test - New Zealand v India at Wellington
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India vs New Zealand Cricket Series 2008-09
IND v NZ, 2nd T20, Wellington: New Zealand clinch last ball win against India (NZ 2:0)
Feb 27, 2009
New Zealand beat India by five wickets in the second and final Twenty20 cricket international in Wellington to take the series 2-0.
Brendon McCullum broke the deadlock on the last ball of the match when a skied single carried the hosts to 150 for five. McCullum topscored with an unbeaten 69 from 55 balls.
Yuvraj Singh led India's 149 for six with 50 off 34 balls. New Zealand won the opening match by seven wickets in Christchurch on Wednesday.
Brendon McCullum was declared "Man of the Match" and "Man of the Series". A five-match cone-day series between the teams starts in Napier on Tuesday.
IND v NZ, 2nd T20, Wellington: New Zealand 150-5 (20.0 overs) beat India 149-6 (20.0 overs) by 5 wickets
IND v NZ, 1st T20, Christchurch: New Zealand thrashes India in tour opener (NZ 1:0)
Feb 25, 2009
Brendon McCullum made 56 not out and shared an unbroken 60-run partnership with Jacob Oram to lead New Zealand to a seven-wicket win over India on Wednesday in the first of two Twenty20 cricket internationals.
McCullum fashioned a restrained half century from 48 balls with three sixes and two fours to steer New Zealand past India's total of 162 for eight with seven balls to spare. New Zealand was 166 for three in the 19th over when Oram (29 not out) struck the game's 41st six to clinch the win.
India's innings, highlighted by an unbeaten 61 by Suresh Raina, included 13 sixes, one fewer than the record for a single innings in a Twenty20 international. When New Zealand peppered the short boundaries at AMI Stadium with 11 more sixes, delighting a crowd in excess of 16,000, it established a record for most sixes in an international Twenty20 match.
The second match is at Wellington on Friday. The tour also involves a limited-overs series and three test matches.
IND v NZ, 1st T20, Christchurch: New Zealand 166-3 (18.5 overs) beat India 162-8 (20.0 overs) by 7 wickets
Ryder, Oram back for Twenty20
Feb 22, 2009
New Zealand recalled Jacob Oram and Jesse Ryder for the two Twenty20 international cricket matches against India next week, while also naming fast bowler Ewen Thompson in the 13-man squad.
The first match is scheduled for February 25 at the AMI Park here, while the second will be played at Wellington on February 27.
New Zealand T20 Team: Daniel Vettori (capt.), Neil Broom, Ian Butler, Grant Elliott, Martin Guptill, B. McCullum, Nathan McCullum, Iain O’Brien, Jacob Oram, Jesse Ryder Tim Southee, Ross Taylor, Ewen Thompson.
Indian team leaves for New Zealand
Feb 19, 2009
The Indian squad, led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, left early Thursday morning for New Zealand on a 47-day tour comprising two Twenty20 Internationals, five One-Day Internationals and three Test matches.
The squad for the limited overs events departed while the members of the Test team, who are not part of the T20 and ODIs squads, would leave later.
Team India gets new ODI jersey
Feb 18, 2009
Team India’s jersey sponsors Nike unveiled a new cricket kit for India on Wednesday, as the team prepares to leave for the New Zealand tour.
The new jersey, this time, changed for the second time in two years. Team India skipper M S Dhoni, pacer Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Pragyan Ojha and Rohit Sharma unveiled the jersey.
The occasion became more special when former players like Venkatesh Prasad, Vinod Kambli, Robin Singh and Laxman Sivaramakrishnan were also present wearing the old blue jersey of the Team India.
This time the colour of the jersey is totally different from the traditional colour, which the players were wearing. Skipper MS Dhoni also praised the new jersey.
Stiff Kiwi test awaits India's Dhoni
Feb 17, 2009
Mahendra Singh Dhoni faces the toughest challenge of his fairytale-like career to date when he leads India in New Zealand from this month, his first full tour as captain.
The 27-year-old has reached dizzy heights in a short space of time, rising from a lowly and poorly paid railway employee in his home town Ranchi in eastern India to become one of the country's most celebrated sportsmen. The dashing batsman-wicketkeeper, who made an uninspiring one-day debut in December 2004, captained India when senior players opted out of the inaugural Twenty20 world championships in South Africa in 2007.
Dhoni and his rank outsiders went on to win the tournament and he found himself elevated to both the one-day captaincy and deputy to Test skipper Anil Kumble after Rahul Dravid resigned. Dhoni was finally given charge for all three forms last October when Kumble called it a day, even as critics feared the excessive workload of keeping wicket and leading the team could burn him out.
But the cool, composed and supremely fit Dhoni has shrugged off any concerns, securing wins in four of his five Tests as captain, with the fifth ending in a draw. Under him, India have won 28 of 46 one-day matches and six of 10 Twenty20 internationals, raising Dhoni to the status of cult figure in the cricket-obsessed country.
Dhawal, Balaji in Test squad for New Zealand series
Feb 13, 2009
Mumbai pacer Dhawal Kulkarni is the only new face in the 16-member Indian Test squad scheduled to tour New Zealand while Tamil Nadu paceman Lakshmipathy Balaji is back in the team after a prolonged injury-enforced break.
Also returning to the Indian squad is off-spinner Harbhajan Singh who missed the recent tour of Sri Lanka owing to injury, while wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik figures in all the three squads as a cover for skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
The national selection committee that met here Friday announced the Indian teams for the three Test matches, five ODIs and two Twenty20 matches for the New Zealand series starting Feb 25.
Twenty20 Team: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, Zaheer Khan, Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja, Munaf Patel, Pragyan Ojha, Praveen Kumar and Dinesh Karthik.
ODI Team: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Ishant Sharma, Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, Pragyan Ojha, Praveen Kumar, Harbhajan Singh and Dinesh Karthik.
Test Team: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain), Virender Sehwag (vice-captain), Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, V.V.S. Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Murali Vijay, Amit Mishra, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Dhawal Kulkarni and Dinesh Karthik.
Australia vs New Zealand Cricket Series 2008-09
New Zealand will play 5 ODIs, 2 Tests and one T20 during the Australian tour starting November 13, 2008.
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