RAIN RUINS THE 2ND ODI BETWEEN INDIA-NEW ZEALAND

Rain continued to disturb New Zealand's cricket season on Friday with another one-day international against India spoilt by the weather.A persistent rain forces match official to call off the play in 2nd ODI between India and New Zealand.

Indians are well on course of setting another huge target for New Zealand in rain reduced game of 34 over. However rain started to fall heavily during 29th over and afterwards it doesn’t seem to stop.any chance of a result ended when the players were called off for the final time at 7.04pm local time. The match was finally abandoned at 8.22pm.

At that stage India were 188/4 in 28.4 overs with S.Raina batting on 13 runs of 8 balls and M.S.Dhoni batting on 23 runs of 19 balls.

Earlier Indian captain M.S.Dhoni once again manages to won the toss and elected to bat first on a flat run-feast wicket.
Indian opener V.Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar gave India a perfect start. V.Sehwag started his inning in same fashion from where he left in Napier. Virender Sehwag was striking the ball beautifully, despite being hampered by a leg injury and calling for a runner during his knock.He reached his second fifty of series in just 32 balls.He was caught behind the wicket after scoring blistering 54 runs of 36 balls.He was given out by umpire's wrong decision.

Sachin Tendulkar who started his inning slowly but soon after Sehwag dismissal,he started to smash the New Zealand bowlers all over the park.Sachin Tendulkar showed his class with a bat. Sachin reached his fifty of 57 balls. Indian team was in a comfortable position,as they scored 130/1 in 19 overs when the rain started to fall heavily.

After resumption, Sachin Tendulkar (61 runs of 69 balls) and Yuvraj Singh (0 runs of 4 balls) got out in a quick succession. Again the rain stopped the play.Indians looks to loss their momentum in the possible four overs of play between first and second resumption.

However Indians once again walked on to bat with 141/3 in 23 over.But Gambhir got out after scoring 30. Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Raina struck a few meaty blows to ensure that New Zealand would have a stiff Duckworth-Lewis target to chase down. Unfortunately, the rain didn't stay away.So the match officials called off the play.

India leads the five-match series by 1-0,as India won a weather-affected 1st one day match by 53 runs in Napier on Tuesday.
Next game of the ODI series will be played in AMI Stadium, Christchurch on Sunday 8th of March.
　
Match Summary
India – 188/4 in 28.4 Overs
S.Tendulkar- 61 V.Sehwag –54
I.Butler– 7-0-38-1 D.Vettori– 3-0-14-1