Auqib Nabi had more than just a point to prove with the ball in Wellington on Saturday. Playing his third ODI, the Jammu and Kashmir pacer was still waiting for his first international wicket. He had conceded 84 runs on debut against the West Indies in Guwahati and gone wicketless in Auckland, where he was the only Indian pacer not to take a wicket despite a helpful surface.

Nabi showed what he could do when he got it right. He bowled fuller, drew the batsmen forward and made better use of the movement on offer at the Hnry Stadium. The result was two wickets inside the first six overs of the rain-curtailed second ODI and the early upper hand India were looking for.

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His first wicket came in the second over. Having kept Tim Seifert quiet for the first four balls, Nabi pitched one up on off stump.…