da jogodeouro： Daniel Vettori’s dogged innings of 60, off 129 balls, ensured that New Zealand sailed well past the follow-on target

da winzada777： Siddhartha Vaidyanathan25-Jun-2005Daniel Vettori’s dogged innings of 60, off 129 balls, ensuredthat New Zealand sailed well past the follow-on target, and moreimportantly, used up valuable time, which may eventually provecritical to the outcome of the match. Sourav Ganguly might havemissed a trick when he persisted with Zaheer Khan and L Balajiagainst him, instead of relying on his spinners.Vettori scored 19 off 70 balls (strike rate of 27) against AnilKumble and Harbhajan Singh. Against the seamers, his strike-ratewas almost three times as much (36 of 46 balls). Zaheer andBalaji hardly pitched the ball up, and on an agonisingly slowpitch, Vettori had ample time to work the ball square of thewicket. Zaheer didn’t test Vettori with a single yorker andcontinued bowling short.Length bowled by medium-pacers to VettoriBowlerBalls faced (Runs)Full LengthGood lengthShort of good lengthShortZaheer Khan22 (15)2 (0)18 (11)1 (0)1 (4)L. Balaji24 (21)5 (2)8 (5)7 (10)4 (4)Vettori was fairly comfortable against the 26 good-length ballsbowled to him, and worked the ball off the square mostly off theback foot. Against the medium pacers, he scored 18 runs off 9balls when he was on his back foot, and even when he showedminimal footwork he succeeded in scoring 7 off 15 balls.Vettori’s footwork against the medium-fast bowlers Balls (Runs)BowlerFront footBack foot Minimal footworkZaheer Khan13 (5)2 (4)7 (6)L. Balaji 8 (6)7 (14)9 (1)Vettori was finally dismissed by Anil Kumble and left India witha lesser lead than they would have liked and lesser time to forcethe issue.