New Zealand vs India, 5th ODI at Auckland, , Mar 14 2009 - Match Result

Majestic pull to bring up the win. It was the bouncer and Martin Guptill stood up tall to unfurl a spanking pull. New Zealand have won the game and by doing that, have made everybody look forward to the Test series.

Guptill take a bow. Bloody entertaining way to bring up your fifty. He moved his front foot out and biffed the full length delivery over wide long-on. The white ball kept sailing into the night sky.

on the middle and leg, worked past square leg for couple of runs.

comes down the track, doesn't reach the pitch of the delivery, so quietly tucks it into a gap at the off side for a single

on the middle, driven down to long-on

shuffles across, Harbhajan keeps it outside off, steered to backward point

on the off stump line, hit back to the bowler

leans forward to ping long-off for a single

gets forward and across to defend to the off side

That bottom hand is working overtime. It was on the middle, may be middle and leg, but Taylor's shuffle meant it was easy pickings for him. And he whipped it to midwicket boundary.

fuller, driven to mid-off

drags back the length and shifts the line to outside off, steered to backward point

he has killed this one. He shuffles to the off stump and swings the full length delivery over cow corner. Ala Dean Jones. Bloody Marvellous.

very nice. It was full in length and Taylor uses the bottom hand to power the lofted drive and whips it over wide midwicket

pushes it off the front of his hand, full and sliding in, driven down to long-on

full and outside off stump, Taylor leans forward to defend

this time drives back to the bowler

shuffles towards off and defends to the on side of the pitch

pushed through the on side

couple of steps down the track, harbhajan keeps it slow and retains the higher trajectory, defended