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(From The Statesman (India))
Press Trust of India BULAWAYO, Aug. 26. An abject batting surrender, save the last pair, underlined Indias continuing downslide as they succumbed to New Zealand by 51 runs in their opening match of the Videocon Cup tri-series here today. After the bowlers did reasonably well to restrict the Kiwis to 215 all out, the Indian top and middle order batsmen put up a pathetic show to be dismissed for 164, with fiery speedster Shane Bond (6/19) doing the bulk of the damage. The Indians were in danger of crashing to their lowest-ever one-day total at one stage when they were reeling at 44 for eight but J P Yadav (69) and Irfan Pathan (50) saved …