0.1 - Revealing the plan Only two slips and a gully. One catcher at short midwicket. No one at point. Not the usual field for the first ball of a Test. Trent Boult not only shows his hand - the ball is going to be within the stumps - but also New Zealands assessment of the pitch. The first ball to KL Rahul slips down the leg side and barely carries to the wicketkeeper. Batsmen wont be blamed if they commit to the front foot a little early. Once in a while, a bouncer wont be a bad choice.Fourth over - How to play the short ball Neil Wagner starts with the first attempted bouncer of the Test, to which M Vijay shoulders arms. He takes it on the arm guard and the message is plain. Ducking wont be an option to deal with bouncers on this surface. Need to stay side-on, for that will make the target smaller, and stay upright, for that will allow the batsman to ride the bounce. Also, be prepared to take a few blows on the body while keeping eyes on the ball and dropping the wrists. Vijays response to the first ball encourages Wagner to send down five more consecutive short deliveries.5.4 - The leg-side snare Second slip is out. Only first slip and a gully in the sixth over of the Test. Theres a fielder at deep square leg and short midwicket. Classic cat-and-mouse game. Expect a bouncer, but not just the bouncer because the fielder at short midwicket means the batsman must flick fuller ones carefully. Both left-arm seamers have gone around the stumps. It allows them not only to bowl a wicket-to-wicket line but keeps the area Ashwin would like to exploit undamaged.10.6 - Length is mandatory An attempted arm ball from Mitchell Santner grips the pitch, takes out a little piece of the surface, and spins to find Rahuls outside edge. Bowling a little quicker in the air is the formula on this slow-low Kanpur pitch but its critical to find the right length to create doubt. Until this ball, Santner was guilty of bowling a bit too full. Ravindra Jadeja must already be licking his fingers. For the batsmen, picking the spinners length early is going to be key to run-making. While they can make up for an error in judgment of length against pace, it will get increasingly difficult to succeed if they misread length against spin.26.6 - Nimble feet against spin Cheteshwar Pujara goes down the pitch and plays against Ish Sodhis legspin to the left of Boult at mid-on. This is the Pujara of old, someone who picks the length early and uses his feet to either go deep into the crease to cut or pull, or get to the pitch of the ball by stepping out. While Sodhi isnt a big turner of the ball, he bowls reasonably quick in the air to discourage batsmen from coming down the pitch, and so this boundary by Pujara is a significant indicator of his form and mindset - considerably more positive than it has been in the recent past.51.1 and 51.3 - The importance of angles Wagner bowls a short ball from around the stumps, Kohli helps it on its way to the fine-leg boundary. Next ball, Wagner goes over the stumps and bowls another short delivery. This time Kohli top-edges the pull to Sodhi at fine leg. Two similar balls produce two radically different results: it was down to the angles. When Wagner bowled around the stumps, the angle took the ball into Kohlis body and it was a easier to guide the delivery to fine leg. But the moment Wagner went over the stumps, the angle took the ball away from Kohli and that led to a lack of control while playing the same shot. 56th to 76th over - Missing Santner Santner has been New Zealands most successful bowler but he does not bowl for a period of 20 overs when India are in a precarious situation. The fall of Ajinkya Rahane gave New Zealand a window to get into Indias tail. Santners absence allows R Ashwin and Rohit Sharma to settle. They face him only after they have played over 50 balls each and the threat wasnt the same. Williamson waits for the second new ball to bring Santner back, and it immediately results in Rohits wicket, but the delay might have cost New Zealand crucial time and runs.Boult gets it right Chatting with Zaheer Khan during commentary made me realise the importance of a fast bowler finding the right length in the subcontinent. Boult was too full with the first new ball and that enabled Vijay and Rahul to negate him. 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Zion Williamson Jersey . Robredo, ranked No. 16, bounced back from an upset loss to Leonardo Mayer in the second round of the Royal Guard Open in Chile last week to down Carreno Busta in 1 hour, 25 minutes. On a day filled mostly with qualifying matches, fifth-seeded Marcel Granollers of Spain also entered the second with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 win over Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia, while Guido Pella of Argentina defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 7-6 (6), 6-4 to advance. ATLANTA -- Senior forward Antonio Campbell went for game highs of 25 points and 12 rebounds Friday as Ohio University beat Georgia Tech 67-61.The Bobcats second straight win in an Atlantic Coast Conference gym came down to their big man, long balls and Ohios experience over the youngest team in the nation.Georgia Tech (2-1) led 32-27 at halftime and outrebounded Ohio 48-37 overall, but the Bobcats (3-0) made seven 3-pointers in the second half. Thats when fifth-year senior Kenny Kaminski scored all 15 of his points from beyond the arc.Fourth-year junior point guard Jaaron Simmons added 17 points and nine assists, and the Bobcats three elders combined for all 10 of their made treys.Campbell added three, same as Techs total.The 6-foot-9 reigning Mid-American Conference player of the year wasnt around when Ohio won 61-55 at Maryland in 2007, yet said, We were pretty excited to come in and play against an ACC school. Theyre big, athletic. All teams in the MAC arent like that.The Yellow Jackets -- who started two true freshmen and had four players making their third career starts -- were led by junior center Ben Lammers career-high 22 points, 11 rebounds and four blocked shots. He held his own one-on-one against Campbell.Ohio took a difference approach.After watching tape of Techs first two games, in which powerfully built guard Josh Okogie scored 18 points each time, Bobcats head coach Saul Phillips stationed sophomore guard Jordan Dartis on Okogie and sagged on him.Theyd made seven 3s (in the first two games), Phillips said of Tech. We tried to make sure our help was a little exaggerated ... we got guys whove played a lot together.Okogie went 2 of 13 while scoring five points, and the Jackets in the second half shot just 27.8 percent (10 of 36).After Kaminski made a pair on back-to-back possessions to give Ohio a 49-46 lead with 11:02 left in the game, Tech never led again and tied only once -- on Jacksons short jumper at the 8:11 mark.From there, the Bobcats stretched the game out.We went iin talking the entire time about, `Youve got to take the 3 out, and we did a good job in the first half, said Tech coach Josh Pastner.dddddddddddd In the second half, Kaminski got loose and hit a couple big shots that changed the complexion of the game. That was the big difference right there.BIG PICTUREOhio: The Bobcats are better when Campbell and Simmons are clicking. Simmons struggled in the first half, scoring nine points on 3-of-9 shooting with five turnovers -- mostly against 6-8 Tech swingman Abdoulaye Gueye. He made half his six shots in the second half, rang up six of his nine assists and turned the ball over just once. Theres no question that that one of the biggest narratives of this game is weve got guys that have played a lot together, Phillips said.Georgia Tech: Senior forward Quinton Stephens was 1 of 9 Friday for six points, and hes 7 of 26 in three games. Fellow senior Josh Heath, potentially the starting point guard, will sit out one more game as part of a four-game suspension for violating team rules.HOW ABOUT A DO-OVERWith Stephens offensive struggles, Pastner gave him a break in the second half. I thought he looked tired (on offense), the coach said. But he was doing a good job on Kaminski, who got hot. I regret subbing him ... that ones on me.STOCK OPTIONAt 6-9, 244 pounds, Campbell has eyes on the next level of the game, which may have eyes on him. Theres a reason NBA teams are looking at him, Phillips said. 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