Black Caps in India
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Sooo....just 376 to win.
From the Monty Burns school of coaching ("You, Strawberry...hit a home run. .... I told him to do that!"), I'm pretty confident that if Guppy and Nicholls can each score a decent hundred then we'll win. Surely the others can do enough batting around them.
There's the formula boys! Get to it!
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11 down 375 to go. Good start.
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I never had an opinion of Jadeja before but after this series I can't stand the fluffybunny.
Tucker shares my sentiments it appears.
Arrogant prick.
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Tucker explains to Kohli the fucking simple fact that the bowler can't charge across the pitch scuffing up the footmarks and he walks away shaking his head.
Seriously, fuck this Indian team.
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Oh, and on the LBW shout.
Indian comm: "clearly hitting middle stump".
Doull: "I can understand Jadeja's frustration as it was another decision that was pretty plumb".
Me: "Possibly clipping off stump, difficult to tell without Hawkeye so good decision".Oh look, cricinfo agree with me:
"Jadeja to Latham, no run, humongous lbw appeal from Jadeja, and earns himself a warning for running across the danger area while appealing. Latham looked to sweep from the stumps, and it pitched in line but didn't straighten enough to hit off stump, I think. Plus Latham took a really long stride forward. Just missing off stump, according to the Hawkeye tool on our scorecard"The more LBWs that go against India the better. It's a fucking travesty if it goes against the team that wants to use DRS.
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Now screaming for one that hit Latham miles outside off stump. Jadeja is taking the piss.
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps in India:
Now screaming for one that hit Latham miles outside off stump. Jadeja is taking the piss.
That must have been the ball after Rossco got out. They got a bit too excitable about that one.
I think they just said this test has had the most lbws ever in a test in India.
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@Mokey said in Black Caps in India:
But if Ronchi can just stay put for a while with Latham...
Tea on the 4th day. To keep us interested - in terms of the match we're now 339/13. When Dhawan went out the Indians were 350/13.
A bit too much happening out there for me to get very excited yet - and there's the unfortunate fact that our middle and lower order have to match Kohli, Rohit and Saha.
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20 odd years ago the ICC issued strong legislation against overappealing, rushing at umpires in a bid to avoid players intimidating umps.
That's gone.
In a sport where a conversational "howzat" carries equal weight to jumping and screaming, why do players repeat "howzat" 3 or 4 times?
Which oher sport allows players to scream at match officals.
Now I'm all for excited players appealing, but a pattern of "howzat howzat howzat" for even the most spurious appeals serves one purpose only, to intimidate or rattle the human element judging a difficult task.
But the spirit of cricket will suggest there's nothing untoward in this and everyone in the game respects the umpires wholeheartedly.
Oveeappealing could easily be cleaned up. DRS should be universal
Yours sincerely
, Einstein
