Black Caps v India

[Virgil]

Kohli won’t be needed for this chase

[Cyclops]

Woeful batting performances all round so far, even Kane lucky rather than great. Hopefully this is just an aberration, as happens in ODIs from time to time and not a more ominous sign. How well we bowl will be informative.

[newsjunkie]

@Cyclops 1st game of the series. It happens some times. I'd expect Kane and Rosco to bat a bit better in the series. Not sure about the rest though.

[Chris B.]

Check this Jadhav's passport - he looks Sri Lankan to me!

Malinga's spinning brother!

[mariner4life]

there's my beloved Black Caps. Welcome back, old friends...

[Chris B.]

@mariner4life Ah - it's a retro game to kick off the series?

Little Kane goes and I think you can stick a fork in us!

A good opportunity for Bracewell to demonstrate his vaunted improved batting, though.

[Chris B.]

...and that was simultaneous with hitting the "Submit" button!

[mariner4life]

@Chris-B said in Black Caps v India:

...and that was simultaneous with hitting the "Submit" button!

haha buuuurn

where's that "what's wrong with Aussie Cricket" thread?

[mariner4life]

@MN5 said in Black Caps v India:

Indians will have a freakishly strong batting lineup....nothing new.

....they'll also have an ordinary bowling line up....nothing new.

Exploit the latter as best you can BCs.

fuck this looks even better today. Bra-fucking-vo

[Chris B.]

Southee and Ferguson have both already had lives.

Stead and McMillan will be earning their salaries over the next few days!

[Gunner]

Bloody awful batting performance.
It’ll take an extremely special bowling performance to get us out of this little pickle.

[mariner4life]

157 is defendable. In a T20.

Shit.

[dogmeat]

Taylor showed again he is our second best batsmen

[Donsteppa]

I guess over the next week or so we find out whether we were flat track bullies vs Sri Lanka - and whether Australia is as far behind the pack as they’ve looked this summer, or not....

Need Boult and Southee to rescue this one.

[MN5]

@mariner4life said in Black Caps v India:

@MN5 said in Black Caps v India:

Indians will have a freakishly strong batting lineup....nothing new.

....they'll also have an ordinary bowling line up....nothing new.

Exploit the latter as best you can BCs.

fuck this looks even better today. Bra-fucking-vo

Must feel so cool that you get to win the internet. I wish I was you.

[mariner4life]

Piss poor village venue

[Chris B.]

@mariner4life Were these shadows supposed to happen in the dinner break?

[Chris B.]

Don't think this pitch is quite as good as it was billed - holding a bit.

The Indian openers had several mishits before tea that didn't go to hand and Kohli just drove Santner aerially through extra cover that was either perfectly threading the needle or had his heart in his mouth.

[mariner4life]

Well we did the "get kohli for less than a hundred" bit

[Chris B.]

@mariner4life said in Black Caps v India:

Well we did the "get kohli for less than a hundred" bit

Little Kane > Kohli...

I'll take whatever pyrrhic victories are on offer in this thrashing!