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Tue, 10 Aug, 2010,10:55 PM |
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India suffered a spectacular collapse to lose their tri-series opener with New Zealand by a mammoth 200 runs on Tuesday. With the bulk of their top order all too comfortable with the low and slow pitches experienced across their recent three-Test series against Sri Lanka, the tourists were found severely wanting on a Dambulla deck which offered the faster bowlers plenty of swing, seam and bounce. |
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Chasing a formidable target of 289 in the wake of Ross Taylor and Scott Styris' rearguard 190-run partnership earlier in the day, India fell from 39 without loss to 67 for seven after 19 overs and then 88 all out in 29.3 overs as Daryl Tuffey and company made hay.
Virender Sehwag and Dinesh Karthik, playing in the absence of the crocked Gautam Gambhir, kicked off the Indian reply with gay abandon, throwing the bat at anything and everything before parting to successive deliveries.
Sehwag, in typical fashion, was intent on swiping the cover off the ball at every turn, and was unfortunate to glove a poor delivery from Tuffey, which begged to be clubbed over midwicket, down the leg-side to wicketkeeper Gareth Hopkins.
Karthik, unlucky to be stuck lbw by umpire Taufel for 14 when television replays showed Kyle Mills' errant line to be ballooning over and well wide of leg-stump, had barely made it back to the pavilion when the middle order steadily began to lay to waste the work done by the openers.
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