CWC Semi Final - Black Caps v India

[Damo]

Yes. And India have lost their review.

Pretty bad review. I thought it was always heading down.

[hydro11]

I don't like how Guptill looks out there.

[Chris B.]

Guppy looking in fantastic form - seeing it like a melon!

[Godder]

Essentially, our most likely matchwinners are Guptill, Williamson, Taylor, Neesham, CDG and Boult, although obviously anyone can get a big score or bowl a destructive spell. Guptill is more on past form, but he is certainly capable of it.

[westcoastie]

@Chris-B an invisible melon. in-form Guptill clips that last ball, first over for 6.

[mariner4life]

Playing 2 feet from your body is a sure sign you are in form...

[No Quarter]

Nicholls needs to dig in and play it like a test for the first 10 overs.

[Mokey]

God. Nicholls and Guptill playing like a couple of third formers against the Ist XI.

[reprobate]

That was a fucken peach that nicholls missed. Don't need that.

[Canerbry]

I reckon we've got bat on ball 4 times in the first two overs, not enough obviously but still they've lost their review.

[Darren]

This can't go on much longer, has to be runs or wickets, sometime soon.

[Paekakboyz]

We could be taking slow and steady a bit too far here...

Stoked they've lost their review

[MajorRage]

Is this our best opening partnership of the tournament? Balls faced wise?

[ACT Crusader]

This is solid test match cricket by our openers.

[No Quarter]

We just need to not lose a bunch of wickets in the first 10 when the ball is new. It's a flat pitch, we have plenty of hitting to up the ante as the innings progresses.

[Cyclops]

@MajorRage said in Black Caps v India - Semi Final:

Is this our best opening partnership of the tournament? Balls faced wise?

Believe it or not we won our first game by ten wickets.

[Cyclops]

And we're off!

[reprobate]

Great start! C'mon the caps!

[hydro11]

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps v India - Semi Final:

We just need to not lose a bunch of wickets in the first 10 when the ball is new. It's a flat pitch, we have plenty of hitting to up the ante as the innings progresses.

Yip. Pressure to score is all imagined at this stage. You have to score at some point but it matters little whether you are 1/0 after 3 or 15/0. The pitch won't have much in it for long.

[Darren]

@Cyclops said in Black Caps v India - Semi Final:

And we're off!

Run rate of 0.3 But no wickets, I'll take it.