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Sehwag suffered from cramps during the abandoned second ODI in Wellington, giving New Zealand brief relief. And if he is suffering still - and it's hard to know with the Indian team's information dispensing system - he won't be getting any flowers or cards from New Zealand's bowlers. 

New Zealand have been saying they have plans for every Indian batsman but the strategies haven't worked against Sehwag. They don't say what those plans are but perhaps the basic trick has been to bowl on the shorter side and into Sehwag's body - he has hardly scored in the 'V' - to give him no room, and frustrate him into errors. Although Sehwag was dismissed without causing irreparable damage in the Twenty20s, he hasn't been frustrated by the lines of attack. 

In the first two ODIs, however, Sehwag has destroyed the confidence of the bowlers and stayed long enough to score fifties at strike-rates of 137.5 and 150.