Tendulkar and Dravid will get runs in NZ
The Indians may have struggled in the Twenty20s against New Zealand but that does not mean all of them will find the tour an uphill task
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
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The Indians may have struggled in the Twenty20s against New Zealand but that does not mean all of them will find the tour an uphill task. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid will certainly be expected to make runs almost like they always do, writes Adam Parore in the New Zealand Herald.
Our main tactic was to try and bore Tendulkar out, keep him off strike, disrupt his momentum, contain him as much as we could. We were only moderately successful, and the same goes for Dravid, a similar type of runmaker. Tendulkar's average is much the same here as it is anywhere else, even if he wasn't perhaps as fluid in his strokemaking here as he was at home or somewhere like Australia, where conditions are more to his liking. Greats like Tendulkar and Dravid know how to adapt. They will make runs anywhere. It is unrealistic to expect to dominate them.
In the same paper, David Leggat writes that Tendulkar and Dinesh Karthik's late withdrawal from the charity game demonstrates demonstrates, on New Zealand soil, the lengths to which the Board of Control for Cricket in India will go to shut down any link, no matter how trivial, with the ICL.
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo