NZ tour of India

[MN5]

If you could combine our two pace bowlers with their three spinners they’d go ok.

[kev]

Interesting the Commentators were talking about a placid pitch when from the first day a number of balls just weren’t bouncing. Not sure what they were looking at.

[Damo]

The good news is that we batted for a 142 overs. That's more than a day and a half. India will probably look to declare at about drinks in the final session tomorrow. We might last 3.5 sessions for a draw.

[canefan]

Kylo strikes!

[booboo]

Kylo!

[booboo]

Kylo's first ball.

Loves Kylo.

[canefan]

Hopefully the light holds and we get the full time to bowl at them tonight

[kev]

Hard to do the high five with Kyle

[booboo]

Steve in at 3.

[canefan]

@kev said in NZ tour of India:

Hard to do the high five with Kyle

Low 5

[canefan]

Can't coach height. And Kyle uses it well

[booboo]

That lack of bounce worries me come 4th innings

[canefan]

@booboo said in NZ tour of India:

That lack of bounce worries me come 4th innings

Agreed. The pitch is deteriorating and will be a minefield by the time we bat. We don't want the pace of the game to progress too quickly

[booboo]

Light no good.

Stumps.

[ACT Crusader]

@kev said in NZ tour of India:

Interesting the Commentators were talking about a placid pitch when from the first day a number of balls just weren’t bouncing. Not sure what they were looking at.

I guess placid does fit given there is basically no movement off the pitch. The variable bounce is another thing!

[MN5]

@booboo said in NZ tour of India:

Light no good.

Stumps.

I thought you were in bed ?

[shark]

Going back to the Latham / Conway / Young / Kane / Rosco / Nicholls 'issue', for mine, and I hate to say it, it's Taylor and Nicholls who are the ones in danger once Conway is available again. In terms of age Taylor stands out at 37/38. I'd love to see him to get to 20 tons but I also don't want to see his average drop further before he retires. I'm sure just a couple years ago it was in the high forties and now it's around 45. Nicholls has age on his side and has a knack of pulling out a big innings every time he looks droppable.

I had to LOL when I saw the suggestion that Conway was the successor to Kane. Young also ain't that young at 29.

I think unless Rosco can pull one outta the bag over his next three innings in India the pressure will go right on for the home summer. Perhaps it's best if he was to retire from test cricket at some stage this summer (preferably on a high) and concentrate on making sure he's in good shape for the 2023 World Cup. Do we have any soft home tests this summer?

In my ideal world, Rosco retires this summer on the back of a virtuoso test series and Conway slots in at 4. Then we get a good 3-4 more years of stability from our batting order before mass retirements decimate us.

[canefan]

@shark I also wonder if Ross wants to retire after a farewell tour at home, in front of his family

[shark]

@canefan my ideal would be that he gets that, and goes out on his own terms on a high with at least one more ton.

From there, given most of our other batsmen are knocking on 30 or older, we might have another 4-5 years of high quality batting before retirements decimate us.

[canefan]

@shark said in NZ tour of India:

@canefan my ideal would be that he gets that, and goes out on his own terms on a high with at least one more ton.

From there, given most of our other batsmen are knocking on 30 or older, we might have another 4-5 years of high quality batting before retirements decimate us.

Gives us 5 years to find and blood replacements