Napier, March 28
India lost the important wicket of Sachin Tendulkar (49) in the first session of the third day and were at lunch 189 for four in reply to New Zealand's first-innings score of 619 for nine declared in the second cricket Test here at McLean Park Saturday.
Tendulkar was caught at slip by Ross Taylor off off-spinner Jeetan Patel and at the break, Rahul Dravid was batting on 57 and V.V.S. Laxman 21.
Breif scores:
New Zealand 619 for 9 decl. (Ross Taylor 151, Jesse Ryder 201, James Franklin 52, Brendon McCullum 115, Daniel Vettori 55, Zaheer Khan 3 for 129, Ishant Sharma 3 for 95, Harbhajan Singh 2 for 120) India 189 for 4 (Rahul Dravid batting 57, Sachin Tendulkar 49, V.V.S. Laxman batting 21)