Dhoni asks his openers to take more responsibility

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Hamilton, Mat. 23 -

Indian team's tour of New Zealand in the first ODI against the country failed. Yesterday was the second match they lost by 15 runs. Captain Dhoni told reporters after the meeting: -

297 runs in 42 overs in the second ODI at the complex. Players start from the dawan better, surely win. Shikhar dawan  first match, Rohit pair were both playing well again.

Revealing the first 15 overs have been playing up to 10, the team has reached a strong position. Virat Kohli, after I left the game on a strong partnership rather disappoint.

New Zealand's seamers bowling better. Bhubaneswar Kumar camiyum threw the ball well.

As Tony said.
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Iceman Dhoni breaks SL hearts

Leave it to me, he says. I want to take this to the last over. Me against one man. One on one. I know I am better than the last man the other team can put up against me. Once again, MS Dhoni reduced a lost match into a one-on-one contest with an opposition bowler, and knocked off the 15 required in just three hits. You could see the bowler - Shaminda Eranga, 9-2-34-2 until then, wickets of Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli to his name - was intimidated the moment he saw the first one fly into the top of the top tier.

Bear in mind that this was a treacherous pitch with seam, spin and uneven bounce. Dhoni was injured, and had come back only for this match. He wasn't running as hard as he does, and wickets were falling at the other end. When Dhoni came in, the asking-rate was 3.35, but with falling wickets and turned-down singles, it hit the improbable towards the end. Dhoni, though, kept refusing singles, kept admonishing the last man Ishant Sharma for taking off for panic-stricken singles.

Ishant couldn't be blamed. The game had unravelled fast for India. They were cruising when Rohit Sharma had braved for yet another fifty despite another painful blow to his body (which makes it atleast four in two innings against Sri Lanka), despite many balls that seamed past his edge, despite the slow start. When India were 139 for 3 in the 32nd over, though, Rangana Herath delivered a grubber, and it squeezed under Rohit's bat. Things were about to change.