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India vs New Zealand, You can watch Live Cricket on the channel Set Max, 1st Test - Hamilton, Scheduled start of Live Telecast on day 3: 330 am India Time.

Scores so far:

New Zealand: 279 all out ( Daniel Vettori 118, Jesse Ryder: 102, Ishant Sharma: 4 for 73, Munaf: 3 for 60)

India: 278 for4 (Tendulkar: 70 batting, Dravid: 66, Gambhir: 72, Chris Martin: 2 for 30)

Though India’s score would suggest that the wicket has eased out that is not exactly the case. Rahul Dravid said yesterday evening that it was not the easiest wicket, with the ball doing quite a bit and he had to be careful all the time. The trick is to bowl a fuller length - whenever the ball has been pitched up, it looked like there was a chance. If New Zealand can bowl a better length on the morning of day 3, they can still get New Zealand back into the match. But Tendulkar is still around…

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MS Dhoni won the toss and put New Zealand into bat in the 1st Test at Hamiltion which started about an hour ago.

When New Zealand opener Martin Guptill nicked a Zaheer Khan delivery in the corridor of uncertainty, the ball was travelling straight towards VVS Laxman. But Rahul Dravid standing at 3rd slip had other ideas, of course. He dived to his left, and when he finally completed a great catch bang in fron of Laxman, the ace Indian batsmen and slip fielder had moved to the top of the list of most catches in a Test Cricket Career. Thi was Rahul Dravid’s catch no. 181 and he is now tied on the top position with Mark Waugh. This is Rahul Dravid’s test match no.132, 4 more than the total number of tests played by Waugh but in terms of number of innings, Dravid has actually played fewer and therefore his average of number of catches/innings at 0.744  is slightly better than Mark Waugh.

Maximum Catches in Test Cricket - Top 10 List

1. Rahul Dravid - 181, Mark Waugh - 181

3. Stephen Fleming - 171

4.  Brian Lara - 164

5. Mark Taylor - 157

6. Allan Border - 156

7. Rickey Ponting - 147

8. Jacques Kallis - 145

9. Mahela Jayawardene - 142

10. Matthew Hayden - 128

It’s interesting to note that all the 10 cricketers in this list of players who have taken the maximum number of catches in test matches are modern players. ( 1980’s or later) Secondly, 5 out of those 10 names belong to Australia - a clear reason for or a function of their clear dominance in test cricket in the last 15 years.

Out of the 10 catchers mentioned in this top 10 list, Stephen Fleming of New Zealand has the best no. of catches / innings average at 0.859.

Please note that the above discussion/list doesn’t include wicket-keepers.

India vs New Zealand, 1st Cricket Test, Seddon Park, Hamilton, 18th to 22nd March, Watch Live Telecast on Set Max. You are welcome to post your live cricket scores / live cricket streaming related stuff in the comments area.

India have won the toss and electet to bowl. The idea obviously is to use the freshness of the first day wicket with th expectation that batting conditions will improve on day 2 and day 3. Balaji has failed to make it to the fnal XI with Munaf Patel winning his place. ( This despite the fact that Munaf had made a mess of things in the final one day - after bowling two height no-balls he had been removed from bowling any furthe by the umpire in the middle of an over.)

Martin Guptill who impressed with his performances in the one day series is all slated to make his test debut for New Zealand as an opener. Mc Intosh is likely to be the other opener.

The teams for the 1st Test.

New Zealand Team : Tim McIntosh, Martin Guptill,  Daniell Flynn, Ross Taylor,  Jesse Ryder,  James Franklin,  Brendon McCullum (wicket-keeper), Daniel Vettori (capt), Kyle Mills, Iain O’Brien, Chris Martin.

India: Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid,  Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Yuvraj Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt & wk), Harbhajan Singh,  Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Munaf Patel, Laxmipathi Balaji (12th man)

The Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India has rejected the revised schedule of the Indian Premier League (IPL) after doubts were raised by various state governments, notably Andhra Pradesh and Delhi. The MHA has now advised the IPL governing body to rework the schedule of the prestigious T20 tournament keeping in mind the concerns raised by the various state governments.

Dhiraj Malhotra, IPL tournament director has said that they would once again rework the dates of the IPL matches to everyone’s satisfaction.

England ex-captain Kevin Pietersen has attributed the recent success of the Indian cricket team in New Zealand to the IPL. Pietersen, overbowled by the ruthless hitting of the Indian batsmen in Kiwiland, the England batsmen cited the ample practise that the Indian batsmen got at hitting boundaries and sixes in the IPL T20 matches as the reason for their success.

Pietersen thinks that the Indian cricket team has taken One Day Cricket to a wholly different level - “the way they are playing is ridiculous.”!!!

One day before the 5th and Final One Day against New Zealand, members of the Indian cricket team were literally on top of the world. They went skywalking - In this picture on your left, you can see Bhajji, Laxman, Zaheer, Sachin and Yuvi in jump-suits at the Sky Tower in Auckland - the highest building in New Zealand. 

Sachin, Dinesh Karthick, Laxman, Balaji, Yuvraj and Praveen Kumar tried their hands at sky walking for about an hour and a half. Team-mate Zaheer tried climbing the Harbour Bridge whereas the others went sea-fishing.

After their stupendous performances so far, who can complain?!