The tourists, who replaced Ian Butler with Hamish Marshall in the line-up that won last week's first Test by an innings and 99 runs, made a stuttering start.

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Ian Lesser, an analyst at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, argues that for now they are not fussed.

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McLaren won the man-of-the-match award after he removed Gladiators' dangerman Hamish Marshall (65), Steve Adshead and Ian Fisher in successive deliveries.

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