Black Caps in India
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@Bones this is fuckin' ridiculous. Boy have we been found out on this tour. Bring back BMac
Time to clean out some chaff and find us the following:
a solid, skillful opening batsman (we don't need rip/shit and bust, we need to bat solid)
a Williamson clone.
a wicket keeper.
actual wicket taking bowlers - wheres Milne and McClenaghan?its going to be some lean years...
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@westcoastie said in Black Caps in India:
@Bones this is fuckin' ridiculous. Boy have we been found out on this tour. Bring back BMac
Yeah cause his 30 off 15 balls would have made all the difference...
And to get it we would have dropped Latham. If Baz is there Lathams not.
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Wow. If it weren't for Kane, and his back up Latham, that would be a very, very sad scoreboard. What the fuck is up with Guptill and Taylor? And our middle order sucks. Santner used to be good for 30 odd runs, but he isn't adding much lately either. After some decent form in the tests, Ronchi has gone back to shit. And if Anderson isn't bowling, he shouldn't be in as a batsman.
No pressure Henry and Boult, but help us. You're our only hope.
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Great result, and even greater to have Boult back to 100% fitness and bowling quick, I was very worried he would go down as yet another NZ bowler whose career was curtailed by injury. Credit to the medical team for the way they've worked him back to full pace without doing any further damage.
Kane, what can you say, legend. 8th ODI ton and has been out in the 90s six times. No doubt he will overtake everyone in that stat... in saying that Rosco's ODI record is bloody formidable. What the hell has happened to him? I thought the Zimbabwe tour was a great way to get confidence into a confidence player but his form has fallen off a cliff since, to the point he plain looks out of his depth now - that over leading up to his dismissal was tough to watch.
Defending 242 is a hell of an effort, especially after a tough tour so far. Now, if we could just win the bloody toss in the next couple of games we can put this series to bed...
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@Chris-B. said in Black Caps in India:
@Mokey said in Black Caps in India:
No pressure Henry and Boult, but help us. You're our only hope.
Well, them and Obi Wan Kenobi, Princess.
Surely you mean Obi Wan Kaneobi...
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Oh, and credit to @westcoastie for the work he did completely writing us off to ensure we pulled out a good performance. Well played sir.
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@Mokey said in Black Caps in India:
@Chris-B. said in Black Caps in India:
@Mokey said in Black Caps in India:
No pressure Henry and Boult, but help us. You're our only hope.
Well, them and Obi Wan Kenobi, Princess.
Surely you mean Obi Wan Kaneobi...
No. Just, no
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@TeWaio said in Black Caps in India:
Good Lord. Guptill bowling the 41st over in a finely balanced chase:
Wd Wd W Wd 1 1 0 W Wd 0
4 wides and two wickets!
Should I start the campaign for Guppy to bat at 6 as a bowling allrounder....
I was getting a little nervous with the way Southee was bowling at the death, but that yorker was a peach. To his credit he got the key wicket of Dhoni at a tiome when MS look set to play one of those innings to guide India home.
Boult back in form aye.
Still concerning is that Taylor looked scratchy as hell out in the middle.
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps in India:
Oh, and credit to @westcoastie for the work he did completely writing us off to ensure we pulled out a good performance. Well played sir.
My pleasure!
Pretty much 2 for 2 in writing off the Black Caps - firstly Southee and he goes on to get 50, and secondly the whole team and they win - mind you that batting was rank.
Nb. I am abstaining from commentary on the rugby this weekend.
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India to use DRS for England Tests
India have agreed to use DRS for the Test series against England on "trial basis" to "evaluate the improvements made" in the system
India using DRS for the upcoming England terst series in a desperate attempt to stop the fern losing their shit at them.
India have agreed to use DRS for the upcoming Test series against England on a "trial basis" to "evaluate the improvements made" in the system. India had played in the first series with umpire reviews, against Sri Lanka in 2008, but this will be their first bilateral contest since then with all the components of the DRS - including ball-tracking technology - in place.
"We are happy to note that Hawkeye has institutionalised all the recommendations made by BCCI, and we confirm that this improved version of DRS will be used on a trial basis during the forthcoming series against England," the BCCI president Anurag Thakur said. "Based on the performance of the system and the feedback that we will receive, further continuation in forthcoming series will be decided."
One of India's biggest concerns with the DRS, the predicted path of the ball after it hits the pad in the case of lbw decisions, will be addressed by the use of ultra-motion cameras. The manual intervention in determining the point of impact will be minimised by the introduction of Ultra Edge, which according to a BCCI release had been approved by Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT]. It will also eliminate the possibility of another touch after the first impact affecting the predicted path or point of impact.
"Earlier, there was a possibility that the operator would have missed a delivery and hence an lbw appeal could have been missed," the BCCI release said. "Now, Hawkeye has developed the technology to record and save all images so that in case an operator fails to arm the tracking system, the images can be rewound and replayed."
Since their first experience with the system in its nascent stages, India were the biggest opponents of the DRS. The only times India used it since that 2008 series was in ICC events and in one Test series against England in 2011. In that series, the DRS was not used for lbw decisions.
The BCCI's sustained refusal to use the DRS meant that other countries would not use the system only when playing India. The board rarely articulated its opposition to the system in detail; India's former Test captain MS Dhoni used to say they would use DRS only when it was 100% accurate.
The current India coach Anil Kumble, who is also the head of the ICC cricket committee, had made a visit to MIT before he took over the India job to be apprised of the latest developments in the DRS technology. During the recent series against New Zealand, India's current Test captain Virat Kohli had said India "definitely wanted to think about DRS", which was the first significant departure from their previous stance.
On October 19, the ICC general manager Geoff Allardice made a presentation in Delhi that was attended by Kumble. Two days later, India confirmed their acceptance of the system albeit on a trial basis.
