After his team produced second close to perfect performance in a row to take 2-0 lead over India in the ODI series, New Zealand captain, Brendon McCullum was understandably pleased. "I thought the way we constructed our batting innings again through the back of Kane [Williamson] and Ross's [Taylor] partnership, and Martin's [Guptill] hand, gave us the platform from where to launch," McCullum said. "And whilst the game was shortened, we were still in a nice position to do so. The batting blueprint was again executed tonight, which was encouraging obviously. And again I thought under pressure against a very good Indian batting line-up, we delivered at key times. It's big from a confidence point of view. We have just got the challenge now to put it together again in a few days' time." The key to New Zealand’s success in sending India’s chase awry on both occasions has been getting the openers out early. "Ideally you want to take wickets up front and that's where we spend our resources much, especially to try to attack early on knowing how important wickets are to the confidence of a team chasing. If we can get early wickets - we weren't able to do that - but we did the next best thing which is to control the run-rate. And when you control the run-rate, there is pressure on the batsman and the wickets sort of followed after that. "I thought it was a pretty good performance from us with the ball under pressure. They played again some excellent hands. [Virat] Kohli again was brilliant to watch, put us under pressure but we stepped up at key times, different guys as well which was encouraging." While praising his team’s effort, McCullum also had a few words of admiration for Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni, India’s only in-form batsmen so far in the series. He said the Kiwis have "Continue to learn that they (Kohli and Dhoni) are very, very good players. They are obviously very good at how to construct a run chase around, both those guys. It's quite important to not sit against them, it is important to try and take wickets knowing that if you can remove one of those two, it goes a long way towards nullifying their chase. "They are a very good team. There are not too many teams around the world where you head in at half time in a 42-over game with 300 on the board and you know that you still have to scrap pretty hard with the ball and in the field. Against this team we know that's the case and thankfully we got it done under pressure." McCullum was essentially pleased with Corey Anderson, who once again blitzed away with the bat, scoring 44 off 17 balls. "With the ball, he didn't start that well, he knows that. One of the things we are trying to do is to ensure that you keep giving guys opportunities even though they may not start well but you need to keep coming back to them. Otherwise they will never get the opportunity to learn either. So that's one thing that we are pretty keen on, still allowing him to have that opportunity under pressure at the end there to really stand up and show how he can operate under pressure. I thought he did that really well, I think he learnt quite a lot with the ball in hand today."