India's goals for tomorrow's third National Bank Series One-Day International against New Zealand at Jade Stadium in Christchurch are mutually dependent.

More of their batsmen need to find their batting form, and if they do that then their chances of victory will increase.

Indian captain Sourav Ganguly said most of the batsmen were out of form as they hadn't scored a run all tour. Virender Sehwag had addressed that problem in the second match in Napier with his century while Rahul Dravid had shown touches of form during the Test series. Sachin Tendulkar will be in the side for tomorrow's game.

"Now it is up to the rest of us to pull our socks up and get some runs on the board," Ganguly said.

Chances are that they will have every opportunity in what are expected to be outstanding conditions, and in front of a big Jade Stadium crowd, tomorrow.

"There's always pressure in the game, pressure to win. If you are captain of any country there is always pressure - it goes on with the job, it goes on with international sport and you have to succeed.

"I have not done well in this series in New Zealand," he said. But he added that the side was the same one that had been doing so well over the last 10 months and they had to take confidence out of that and try to do their best in the next five matches.

Talking about the batting problems affecting his side, Ganguly said: "Most of us have got out before we got in so that's one aspect that has happened in this series and the batters need to find some way to score some runs."

Individual players needed to look at how they had been successful on New Zealand wickets in the past and try to get back to that method of success.

It had been a problem not only for India, but also for New Zealand and it was time for batsmen on both sides to score some runs.

"We've still got five one-dayers to go, there is still a lot of cricket left in this series. This side has had a lot of good times over the past two years that I have been captain. We've won more than we've lost and if you look at this year the winning margin is a lot.

"At the present moment we are going through a tough time as a team, and it is high time we tried to sort things out ourselves."

Ganguly said that for a team to be successful at least three of the seven batsmen had to score some runs.

He added that the fielding effort in Napier had been poor and it had just been one bad day. The side's fielding standards had generally been very high and the side had spoken about it and it would be a different show tomorrow, he said.

Ganguly discounted comments that have been made that the Indians have been distracted by contract negotiations going on back home.

Ganguly said it was not a factor and that too many people too far away from the team were making these comments.

According to reports the side had been having contract problems during their tour of England and they won there. Then they were having contract problems before the International Cricket Council Champions Trophy and they had won that, so the contracts were not an issue.

"When you don't do well a lot of useless comments go around," he said.

Ganguly said he was happy with the World Cup side that has been selected. It had largely been expected although he felt sorry for V V S Laxman and Rakesh Patel but they were young players and there was always a chance for them in the future.

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