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NAPIER, Sunday (Reuters) - A glorious 108 from India opener Virender Sehwag could not prevent New Zealand winning the second one-day international by 35 runs to take a 2-0 lead in the seven-match series.

India had just 48 overs available to reach 255 for victory after failing to bowl their 50 overs within 3-1/2 hours.

They started badly, losing skipper Sourav Ganguly for nought to the second ball of the innings from Daryl Tuffey.

But Sehwag, who was publicly backed by his captain on Saturday when he was asked whether the youngster was worth persevering with in light of his poor tour to date, relished the more batsman-friendly pitch.

He scored his fourth one-day century from 111 balls with eight fours and two sixes, sharing a second-wicket of 57 with VVS Laxman (20).

After he reached his century, Sehwag lost much of the strike and it was a desire to see more of it than the erratic Harbhajan Singh that resulted in his downfall when he attempted to beat bowler Tuffey's follow through and diving throw and was run out.

One of Sehwag's back foot shots had earlier seen the end of Rahul Dravid (18). A cut wide of Stephen Fleming backward of point was expertly fielded by the New Zealand captain and a hesitant Dravid was caught well short.

Yuvraj Singh lasted just two balls before he was deceived by Daniel Vettori and stumped by Brendon McCullum without scoring.

McCullum, on trial for a World Cup berth, made five dismissals, including four catches and a stumping, to equal Adam Parore's New Zealandd record set against the West Indies in Goa in 1994.

Earlier Nathan Astle struck 76 and Mathew Sinclair 78 in a second wicket partnership of 136 after New Zealand had lost Fleming for one with the score on 10.

Astle was eventually caught on the mid-wicket boundary for 76, off Ganguly's second over for his 31st one-day half century.

Sinclair was out to a smart catch behind the stumps by Dravid when he attempted a reverse sweep off Harbhajan and the ball caught his gloves.

With the first ball of his second spell Javagal Srinath had a badly out-of-sorts Craig McMillan (5) leg before attempting an extravagant shot to square leg, and then, with the best fielding of the day, ran out Jacob Oram (4) with a direct hit from backward point. 

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