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The second leg of the New Zealand expectations all round effective Friday, when the two teams meet again. The Indian superstars, the world Twenty20 champions, will be under pressure towatch Streaming From Wellington
put up a performance in our status. The New Zealand bowlers will be under pressure to give the home as Daniel Vettori put it.
In either case, there's little time to relish a win or pick up the pieces after a loss. Even before the match presentations had ended last night, the groundsmen had started taking out the portable pitch - there's a rugby game scheduled at the AMI Stadium on Friday. The day after a late game there wasn't enough time for the teams to travel to the Westpac Stadium here and check the conditions. New Zealand practised at the Basin Reserve, Wellington's Test ground, soon after landing, and India gave training a miss.
And all this for three hours' cricket. Twenty20 games can be a bit like a Christchurch- For India it will be more of a mental check-in before they go in to try and save the series. The first question will be, do they play an extra specialist bowler? The ease with which Irfan Pathan was taken for runs on Wednesday could outweigh his value as a batsman.
