NZ tour of India
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I think we can console ourselves in the fact this is far from the best team we can turn out, and even then this is a pitch not suited to us and very suited to our hosts. We will respond in kind with nice bouncy seaming wickets and considerably cooler climes the next time they come to town
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On Ashwin……I think he’s the most underrated cricketer in the world at present. I mean, everyone knows he’s very good but in actual fact he’s a fucken exceptional player. A brilliant, brilliant bowler and a more than capable batsman too, as I’ve griped about in the past he’s probably going to go past Paddles for test wickets taken whilst playing less tests.
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@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
I thought @mimic was being sarcastic that’s why he got an upvote.
Patel went for a shitload more than Paddles, I don’t think it’s right he had a chance to “beat” his match figures
Paddles did bowl 20 overs less than Ajaz against a pretty impotent Aussie side on a beauty of a Brissy wicket for fast bowlers.
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@act-crusader said in NZ tour of India:
@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
I thought @mimic was being sarcastic that’s why he got an upvote.
Patel went for a shitload more than Paddles, I don’t think it’s right he had a chance to “beat” his match figures
Paddles did bowl 20 overs less than Ajaz against a pretty impotent Aussie side on a beauty of a Brissy wicket for fast bowlers.
Boon and especially Border were excellent test batsmen. Kepler Wessells went on to a very good career too. Some of the rest were average though I’ll give you that.
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To be fair India are far from full strength themselves (No KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, R Pant, Jadeja, J Bumrah, M Shami).
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@mn5 Boon was averaging 21 going into the Brisbane test. Border was class and one of my all time favourites. Wessels wasn’t too bad
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@pepe said in NZ tour of India:
To be fair India are far from full strength themselves (No KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, R Pant, Jadeja, J Bumrah, M Shami).
New Zealand needs to develop the ability toi win away from home in less that perfect conditions, not just remain as home track bullies.Yep, responding in kind at home helps us to be like the 2000's version of India. Winning away still has to be the goal, not folding without a fight in Perth, Melburne, Sydney, and Mumbai...
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@act-crusader said in NZ tour of India:
@mn5 Boon was averaging 21 going into the Brisbane test. Border was class and one of my all time favourites. Wessels wasn’t too bad
Actually Greg Matthews fluked his way to a decent batting average too.
But I get the feeling when all is said and done Paddles will go down in history as a better bowler than Patel.
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@pepe said in NZ tour of India:
To be fair India are far from full strength themselves (No KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, R Pant, Jadeja, J Bumrah, M Shami).
New Zealand needs to develop the ability toi win away from home in less that perfect conditions, not just remain as home track bullies.They had some reasonable success in the last cycle. And they were very competitive in the first test. But we need all our best on deck and we ran into a buzzsaw here in Mumbai
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@canefan said in NZ tour of India:
@pepe said in NZ tour of India:
To be fair India are far from full strength themselves (No KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, R Pant, Jadeja, J Bumrah, M Shami).
New Zealand needs to develop the ability toi win away from home in less that perfect conditions, not just remain as home track bullies.They had some reasonable success in the last cycle. And they were very competitive in the first test. But we need all our best on deck and we ran into a buzzsaw here in Mumbai
I don't know why you are using past tense. This one is still going on.
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A lazy 540 batting last in India without our greatest ever bat? Piss in a tin
In good cricketing news the Big Bash is back!
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@mariner4life said in NZ tour of India:
A lazy 540 batting last in India without our greatest ever bat? Piss in a tin
In good cricketing news the Big Bash is back!
I just turned the channel to watch BBL and they were showing Ajaz 10 wickets. Can’t escape this match!
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@booboo said in NZ tour of India:
@pepe said in NZ tour of India:
India declare with a paltry 539 lead
Seriously though.
We bat out the re remaining overs over two and a half days we piss in 540.
It's ours to lose.
Draw is off the table.
But now with Young not surviving the help of the onfield umpire, we're into the walking wickets part of the top-middle order...
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@shark said in NZ tour of India:
In terms of out of the box, standalone, unlikely to ever go close to repeating anything remotely close efforts, Patel's was like Peter Fulton scoring two tons in one test. Magnificent, but probably one and done.
Bloody hell, wasn’t that a test out of the box for 2 metre. Didn’t manage another ton in 22 other tests though…….
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@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
Rossco in. Pretty late in his career but definitely a good time to get his first test triple ton.
300 pfftt
If he gets 3 runs, I’ll be pleasantly surprised…
