ODI 2: Incomplete Innings Brought To End By Prevalent Rain

For a second match in a row, rain became the outstanding highlight of the match. If it played tricks with the Indians trying to set a target and even more, when the hosts tried to overhaul it in difficult conditions, today was a day when it would never even allow a fair contest between bat and ball in Wellington.
Blazing half centuries from Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar was brought to naught as rain ended the match with just twenty-nine overs bowled in the day. It meant India played out an interrupted innings while New Zealand never got the opportunity to find out what would have happened had the match continued.
But the signs were ominous from India. Having played two Twenty20 matches, the Indian team perhaps found it easier to tackle the two one day internationals that involved curtailed innings. At their scoring rate certainly suggested 300 was on the cards had it been a full fifty over game. Needless to say, New Zealand were looking at a huge target to chase had the game wore on.
For India, the signs were positive at 188 for four in the overs played even though they lost Sehwag and Tendulkar eventually out. But when rain interrupted a third time, the writing was pretty much on the wall - that New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori was having problems and that the rain would soon put an end to it, for the moment. And it was not long after that the game was abandoned, the stop starts having already killed the momentum.

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