It was lunch time and New Zealand had recovered from 23 for 3, but one man was not moving from his position to the right of the sightscreen. Mark Greatbatch didn't want to move because he was superstitious. His boys, Ross Taylor and Jesse Ryder, were doin

It had all the makings of a dramatic day for India. In fact, things started happening too quickly last afternoon

In a summer of gloom, the two silver linings for New Zealand cricket shone bright on a lovely sunny day in Napier today

MS Dhoni, who missed the Napier Test because of a back spasm he sustained on the eve of the match, is likely to return for the Wellington Test

Plays of the Day from the first day of the second Test between New Zealand and India in Napier

Not only are they making a mockery of the jinxes that have haunted Indian cricket for long, Dhoni's men are also breaking long-standing traditions

Daniel Vettori knows the public deserves better than what happened in Hamilton, a tame defeat in four days. It's not the loss that hurts them as much, but the manner in which they lost

Shane Bond wasn't the first exciting New Zealand fast bowler who struggled with injuries through a truncated career

When India came to New Zealand, the hosts were desperate to get the injured Kyle Mills back. He was their best and most experienced new-ball operator then

If Munaf Patel goes through the series with the same intensity and results, the final block of this largely settled team could fall into place

Andy Moles, New Zealand's coach, has vowed that in Napier India will face "a lot sterner examination than they did in the first Test match"

In the end it didn't seem like it had been 33 years in coming. The Indian team hadn't lined up at the picket fence waiting for the winning runs nor did they rush onto the field to soak up what they hadn't experienced on several previous tours - a Test win

One of the criticisms that Harbhajan Singh has had to live with is his performance overseas. After all, how many times had he won India a Test outside the subcontinent? One has to strain the mind to think of such instances.

Andy Moles, the New Zealand coach, was not a happy man after his team had looked dispirited throughout the third day and faced a strong possibility of going down 1-0 in the series

Bring back Shane Warne, Shaun Pollock and Wasim Akram because we have a conundrum here that only they can solve. The way Sachin Tendulkar has batted on this tour, and in the matches leading up to it, it seems he has hit the kind of patch he did in the mid

A low catch during the third day's play of Hamilton Test could create a controversy involving Sachin Tendulkar, who was "100% confident he had taken it"

Plays of the Day from the third day of the Hamilton Test between New Zealand and India

Rahul Dravid has carried his form from the Mohali Test before Christmas and the Indian domestic season on to New Zealand. He put India on the right track before missing out on what could have been his fifth century in his last seven first-class matches

India scored only 249 runs and lost only four wickets. But what the second day lacked in drama, it made up in intensity

Daniel Vettori can be an irritating tailender, robbing the game of all its momentum, playing little dab shots, with soft hands, and taking single after single. But he isn't. He gets to play very little for Northern Districts, his state side, given his int