Napier: Indian captain Saurav Ganguly on Sunday refused to give any excuse for the team's 35-run defeat in the second One-day International against New Zealand and said the team generally had a bad day out on the field.

It was a good wicket to bat on and there can be no excuse. A good partnership could have seen us through but be desired. We had done some hard work to improve our fielding in the recent months but the performance was poor on the field today. Definitely we need to improve on that," Ganguly said.

Sehwag was named man-of-the-match after scoring an uncharacteristic patient century. "The situation required that I stay there, and also the track was good to bat on. But it would have been nice had the team won," Sehwag said.

Home captain Stephen Fleming was a delighted man after the win gave his team a 2-0 lead in the seven-match series. "Players are enjoying their chances... and things are going to a plan. The World Cup is around and it is nice to be winning," Fleming said.

"We had just one good partnership from the top order but we knew 250 was a challenging total and we needed to bowl and field well," he added.

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Sehwag's ton in vain, Indians lose by 35 runs