Black Caps tour of India

Donsteppa

Santner as our third highest scorer is slightly sobering.

MN5

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of India:

Santner as our third highest scorer is slightly sobering.

He’s an occasionally effective specialist low order batsman nowadays

bayimports

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of India:

Santner as our third highest scorer is slightly sobering.

He’s an occasionally effective specialist low order batsman nowadays

In India more so a batsman than a bowler, either way right now I will take any runs we can get

canefan

They've really done a number on this pitch. It has little cut marks on it, almost like the machine they use on golf greens. I'm sure they've done it to slow the pitch down, to create variable bounce and to encourage it to break up faster

Donsteppa

Can't blame a number 10 for that, but looks to me like a pitch you have to force yourself to play forward on regardless of instincts, unless it's dropped really short.

Donsteppa

About 150 runs short, but maybe we'll be lucky.

Chris

My question who is going to bowl India out cheaply
ORourke will be a danger maybe Patel our attack is weak.
Henry being out hurts us.

Donsteppa

Those two only. Southee won't do much.

Chris

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of India:

Can't blame a number 10 for that, but looks to me like a pitch you have to force yourself to play forward on regardless of instincts, unless it's dropped really short.

Yep you are spot on there that is exactly what you have to do to survive.

canefan

Philips will have to redeem himself with a decent wicket haul. And it Mitch and Ravindra can get it to move, who knows? But I see us well on the back foot now. We may have just surrendered the test

Chris

Hopefully O’Rourke can get a couple before the end of play.
Disappointing we lost 6 wkts for 62 runs..

canefan

@Chris said in Black Caps tour of India:

Hopefully O’Rourke can get a couple before the end of play.
Disappointing we lost 6 wkts for 65 runs.

Not quite as bad as 10 for 46, but still bad...

Chris

@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:

@Chris said in Black Caps tour of India:

Hopefully O’Rourke can get a couple before the end of play.
Disappointing we lost 6 wkts for 65 runs.

Not quite as bad as 10 for 46, but still bad...

Yeah but we were 197/4 we had done some hard work and threw it away.

Donsteppa

"... before rain stopped play, during the luncheon interval" - 12th Man.

canefan

@Chris said in Black Caps tour of India:

@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:

@Chris said in Black Caps tour of India:

Hopefully O’Rourke can get a couple before the end of play.
Disappointing we lost 6 wkts for 65 runs.

Not quite as bad as 10 for 46, but still bad...

Yeah but we were 197/4 we had done some hard work and threw it away.

Totally agree. What a wasted opportunity

antipodean

259 simply isn't enough, even with the benefit of not having to bat last.

Chris B.

Latham, Young, Ravindra and Santner looked decent.

Most of the other guys were flailing around - even though Devon got runs.

Our spinners are unlikely to be good enough to run through the Indians like Sundar did to us, so unless something odd happens, I think we're likely already cooked.

Donsteppa

Ajaz will need a 10-for again for very few runs...

Donsteppa

Though - Southee takes his traditional early wicket.

No Quarter

One for not many before stumps is a decent result, keeps the door ajar for us but we'll need to come out strong tomorrow morning

The Silver Fern

Black Caps tour of India