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India salvage draw

AFP, Napier
A heroic stand of 137 in nearly 11 hours at the crease by Gautam Gambhir ensured the second Test between India and New Zealand ended in a draw on Monday.
When Gambhir’s matchsaving, marathon performance came to an end he had batted through three days' play and rescued his side from a perilous situation.
After New Zealand made 619-9 declared, India were in strife when they were rolled for 305 in their first innings and lost their opening second innings wicket at 30 when asked to follow on.
But Gambhir, in his 24th Test, was unfazed by the carnage and set about a rescue mission that lasted 642 minutes and ended with India all but safe.
It was left to WS Laxman on 124, the 14 th century of his Test career, and Yuvraj Singh on 54 to bat out the last two hours and get India across the line.
They were 162 runs ahead and their 1-0 series lead was intact when time was called 70 minutes early.
India, who won the first Test by a handsome 10 wickets, have not won a series in New Zealand in 40 years.
New Zealand have one chance left to salvage a draw from this three-game series when the final match starts in Wellington on Friday.
The second Test was played on an extremely placid wicket with the bowling damage concentrated in one 26-over burst on the third day when New Zealand ripped out six wickets for just 58 runs.
With conditions against the bowlers, the five days of cricket produced 1,400 runs including a double century, four centuries and seven half-
centuries.
Jesse Ryder, who made 201 and was on the field for all but three hours of theTest, was the man-of-the-match, but Gambhir’s second innings response for India, when he came in on Saturday and departed on Monday, was exemplary.
That he scored 64 fewer runs than Ryder mattered little to India. Of more importance was that he soaked up 153 more minutes of playing time than the New Zealander.
His dogged fifth Test century was the seventh longest stand by an Indian, though it was also the lowest score among the top 30 innings of endurance by Indian batsmen.
"He's the only one who saved the game for us,” said Indian captain Virender Sehwag.
"I think we can call him 'the second wall'," he added, acknowledging also veteran run-maker Rahul Dravid, with
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innings of 83 and 62, who is known as "The Wall" for his stoic performances.
New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori saw only positives for the way his side turned a first Test hiding into a second encounter that his team mostly dominated.
"After the performance we had in Hamilton, to bounce back and play like we did here is very pleasing, apart from the disappointment of not winning," he said.
"The performances of Jesse Ryder, Ross Taylor (151) and Brendon McCullum (115) with the bat and backed up by a magnificent first innings bowling spell, I think the amount of pressure we put India under was fantastic."
After resuming the final day at 252-2, India only added 145 runs in the first two sessions as survival remained their priority.
Laxman and Yuvraj opened up in the final session when the result was beyond doubt and the umpires called an end to the game 70 minutes early.
Gambhir increased his overnight score by just 35 in three hours before his near chanceless innings was undone by Jeetan Patel with a ball that straightened and hit the pads
plumb in front of the wicket
It came 12 runs after he survived the one true chance in his 436-ball innings when Iain O'Brien dropped a straightforward catch off Vettori at mid-on.
After India’s rescue mission began shakily with the early dismissal of stand-in captain Virender Sehwag, Gautam shared in partnerships of 133 with Dravid, 97 with Sachin Tendulkar and 96 with Laxman.
New Zealand removed Indian talisman Tendulkar early on the final day when he was caught behind for 64 after being teased by a succession of deliveries well wide of off-stump by Chris Martin.
Tendulkar drove the fourth Martin ball to the boundary and resisted the temptation to strike again until the fifth over when he stretched out to drive and the ball edged through to wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum.
Patel was the most successful of the New Zealand bowlers with two for 120 while Martin and Daniel Vettori had a wicket apiece.
SCOREBOARD
Final scoreboard on the fifth and final day of the second
Test between New Zealand and India at McLean Park in Napier on Monday:
NEW ZEALAND: First innings 619-9 deci (Ryder 201, Taylor 151, McCullum 112,Vettori 55, Franklin 52; Sharma 3-95, Zaheer3-129)
INDIA: First innings 305 (Dravid 83, Laxman 76; Martin 3-89)
INDIA: Second innings (over-night252-2)
Gambhir lbw b Patel 137 Sehwag lbw b Patel 22 Dravid c How bVettori 62 Tendulkarc McCullum b Martin 64 Laxman not out 124 Yuvraj not out 54 Extras: (b-9, lb-1, nb-3) 13 Total: (For 4 wkts in 180 overs) 476 Did not bat: Karthik, Harbhajan, Zaheer, Sharma, Patel.
Fall of wickets: 1-30, 2-163, 3-260,4-356.
Bowler O M R W Martin 30 8 86 1 O'Brien 32 9 94 0 Franklin 21 5 48 0 Patel 45 10 120 2 Ryder 11 5 38 0 Vettori 38 13 76 1 Taylor 2 14 0 How 10 0 0 Result: Match drawn.
Man-of-the-match: Jesse Ryder.