India's frontline batsmen started their preparations for the Australia Test tour with a flurry of half-centuries in the first four-day match against New Zealand A in Mount Maunganui. The match ended in a draw, with the visiting bowlers made to toil, but the positives came from the form shown by M Vijay,
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Shaw scored a fifty in both innings of the game © Getty