Black Caps tour of India
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Well done Santner, that is some effort. Nice comeback from all the criticism on here ( holds hand up surreptitiously)
What has happened to India ? This mighty side is being dealt to by a pace bowler a bit past his best, a part timer and a full timer who hasn’t been able to buy a wicket in ages.
Crickets a funny game….
And as I ramble Santner gets SEVEN !!!
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@Chris said in Black Caps tour of India:
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Chris Ye of little faith! Pressure is a funny thing and after the first test all of the pressure is on India. You would expect them to score 400, but you also would expect them to score more than 46 in the first test
We will see my money is on a big Indian score
With Gill and Washington they are a much stronger batting line up.
They also scored 462 in the 2nd innings this is a typical Indian pitch they will go well on it.Let the record state that I was right, and you were wrong.
Not sure I would have picked a Santner 7-for though!!
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@Donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of India:
Santner with a 7-for.
He and Washington come in and get 7 wickets each.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
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.
@Mitch Santner said in Black Caps tour of India:
GFYS!!!
Well done, Mitch!
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
@MN5 Imran never bowled any spin. Sir Gazza's average potentially compromised by bowling enormous variation that no-one else has replicated.
I don't think anyone is close.
Yeah Imran was closest of the four all rounders of the 80s. Paddles a better bowler but Imran quite a bit better with the bat. Beefy started amazingly but petered out…..and Kapil just played a lot to get what he got.
From what I’ve heard Sobers was an extraordinary batsman but that bowling record ? Ok, very handy for a team to have but really ? 235 wickets in 93 tests ? Chris Martin got 233 in 71…….
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@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Steven-Harris said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Bovidae Henry out ..Bugger
Santner in for HEnry not the headline I wanted to see
Aged well.
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@MajorRage said in Black Caps tour of India:
@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Steven-Harris said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Bovidae Henry out ..Bugger
Santner in for HEnry not the headline I wanted to see
Aged well.
In fairness if anyone disagreed they would have been laughed out of here
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@ACT-Crusader said in Black Caps tour of India:
I live in hope, but I’m not sure how much success our two orthodox spinners will have. Ashwin and Washington bowled with variety, varying their off breaks and even then we were looking good-ish at 4/200.
That aged well.
SatNav was zeroing them in. Awesome spell
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Hopeful review, they are desperate
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
@MN5 Little Kane would be a hell of a player if his batting average was a few notches higher, could bowl like Chris Martin - and could chuck in some decent spin as well.
And field like Glenn Phillips!
Well yeah, Sobers could do it all but he was ‘only’ brilliant at a couple of things
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:
Hopeful review, they are desperate
In the main they have been terrible with their review judgement
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@antipodean said in Black Caps tour of India:
Time to join the select few with a series win in India.
This seems like a good time to quote myself!
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
@MN5 He'd still be a fair way short of Sir Garfield's batting average, which barring Bradman is among the best ever.
And Gary opened the bowling, then came bck to bowl both left arm orthodox and chinamen. Extraordinary.
I don't know why more modern bowlers don't try this. I don't see why Tim Southee couldn't bowl some decent part time spin. Plenty of batsmen can. He should be at least as good as Joe Root.
Lack of innovative thinking!
Colin Miller. Weirdo Tasmanian (but I repeat myself) with the blue hair.
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@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:
Conway had a couple of near misses, but seemed to be asking for it, trying to play across the line. He wasn't thinking straight. Literally
Time for one of Young, Latham or Mitchell to make a big score. I think we need to keep this aggressive approach early on.
