Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020
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@Chris-B said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
It's annoying that the fielding has been below par in recent times - missing runouts and dropping catches and - especially - missing these when it's top order batsmen.
Bowling - well, we don't have Boult or Ferg for quite a bit of this series, so that is going to test the paddling pool. But, I'm interested to see how Hamish Bennett goes - he's not played as many international matches as he's probably warranted. And Tickner got a few through at 140+ kmh - which is better than I thought he was capable of.
As above - the batting was good last night, given that we know the Indian attack is better than ours - especially what we fielded last night. We're back on our flat pitches and the Indians don't have towering fast bowlers to bounce us off the park, so we should make enough runs to make for competitive games.
Interestingly, I heard John Morrison on Radiosport yesterday (amidst lots of waffling) being very direct about how NZ Cricket administrators sold the troops down the river by agreeing to play the first Oz test in Perth and under lights. Something along the lines of "Who in their right minds would agree to play the fastest and bounciest attack on the world's fastest and bounciest pitch first up on tour?". He thought we were shot to pieces after that test.
The discussion was at about 2.20 pm if anyone is interested to listen.
100%, you and I talked about it during the match. It was high risk playing the pink ball first up and it backfired badly in the end. NZC really needs some admins with balls.
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@Donsteppa said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
Our plan is to win by scoring fewer runs than Friday night.
CdG reverting to genuine Village again.
Not sure how long they'll persist with CdG at 4.
It's got an element of wishful thinking - i.e. it would be great if it came off, but I'm not sure it will regularly enough.
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FFS, CdG lobs one back to Jadeja.
If we’re going to lose, can we at least go down swinging? We look like they’re happy to hit singles at the moment.
There is only 10 overs left guys, and we need a shit load of runs.
Edit: sorry forgot I’m 8 minutes behind after being interrupted a bit earlier.
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Only 4 mins behind now.
Awful innings from Kane, blocked and hit singles for 14 from 20.
I don’t think India’s bowling has been that great to have us 81/4 from 12.3.
Let’s hope this pitch is much harder to bat on than it was the other night, and we’re not just battling like incompetent numpties.
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I’m sick of the commentators gushing over the Indian bowlers and how amazing they are, yes they’ve been good, but the BCs have been equally poor, yet no comment from them about that. If the batting is shit and deserves a serve, they need to say so.
I don’t recall seeing so many swing and misses or non-timed shots in any game of cricket in recent memory.
Bloody PC commentary.
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@Chris-B said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
Those who were ranting about our performance last time are going to be apoplectic about this.
Coastie's probably done an Elvis on his TV!
He was watching the Sevens.
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@westcoastie said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
He was watching the Sevens.
Thank christ.Can’t believe I forgot to watch both finals, I checked what time they were on too right before the cricket.
How’d we go?
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@Chris-B said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@Donsteppa said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
Our plan is to win by scoring fewer runs than Friday night.
CdG reverting to genuine Village again.
Not sure how long they'll persist with CdG at 4.
It's got an element of wishful thinking - i.e. it would be great if it came off, but I'm not sure it will regularly enough.
He's not really a hit from ball one type of player so it might make sense to have him a bit higher. Having said that, Taylor should definitely bat ahead of him.
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Sunil Gavaskar - NZ will be looking to take early wickets.
Me - "who the hell will take the wickets?"We have no genuine wicket takers. Like none, in this third grade attack.
Edit - fuck you Southee...
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@Gunner said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
@westcoastie said in Indian Cricket Tour of NZ 2020:
He was watching the Sevens.
Thank christ.Can’t believe I forgot to watch both finals, I checked what time they were on too right before the cricket.
How’d we go?
Better than the Black Caps...
