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Fri, March 27th, 2009.

11:00 local, 22:00 GMT

McLean Park, Napier

India

vs

New Zealand

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It was lunch time and New Zealand had recovered from 23 for 3, but one man was not moving from his position to the right of the sightscreen. Mark Greatbatch didn’t want to move because he was superstitious. His boys, Ross Taylor and Jesse Ryder, were doing well, and he didn’t want things to go awry.

Greatbatch stood there through the middle session, talking to various people, but didn’t move a lot from his position. Not a wicket fell in that session. After tea, with the “boys” firmly entrenched, he finally relented, and moved. But he still couldn’t talk looking at you, it was a dream come true for Greatbatch who knew the two would play Tests for New Zealand from the time he first met them, about 13 years ago. Now they were putting together a world-record stand to rescue New Zealand, and Greatbatch was one of the most satisfied people at McLean Park.

“[When I met him first] Ross was 12 years old I was playing a first-class game in Wairarapa, and this little guy – no he was a big lad – came up to me and asked if he could be the 12th man,” Greatbatch remembers. “I said, ‘You can do the scores and sometime I will give you a day.’ He came in during the drinks with the gloves and all that, and he was a good lad. Very nice and very polite and stayed all the four days with us. I took him out for some batting one night, and I saw that he was quite a strong hitter of the ball. We got him to the Central District Under-15 team, and based here he got two hundreds, one of which was a 150. He wasn’t playing much cricket in the Wairarapa so we got him to Palmerston North.”