NZ tour of India
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@godder said in NZ tour of India:
@mn5 said in NZ tour of India:
@dogmeat said in NZ tour of India:
@mn5 You asked if anyone had had spinners of that calibre before. Batting is a bonus. Their core skill is bowling. Anyway in those days you only expected a handful of runs from your lower order - seven down, all out.
Well no, from a NZ perspective Paddles, Bracewell, L Cairns, Collingwood etc we’re all pretty handy batsmen.
Boult is probably our best regular 11 in my lifetime. Possibly not a lot competition given luminaries such as Martin, Chatfield, Morrison... That said, we've always batted deep, usually to at least 9, and Smith mentioned in his autobiography that in at least one of his tests, everyone except Chatfield had a test 100. Often not a lot of choice, our top orders tended to have at least one passenger somewhere.
Yeah him, Paddles, Bracewell woulda helped that stat. Boult is a very capable batsman.
I remember 10-15 years ago Vettori and McCullum at 7 and 8 had a few tons and the whole top order had none ? ( I might be wrong, just after Fleming retired and as Ross Taylor was debuting )
How good are these two batting ? Keep fighting boys !!!!!!
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@no-quarter said in NZ tour of India:
I'm blown away by 0 wickets that session.
me too, incredibly happy, although pitch hasn't got worse, but no woeful shot selection yet either
still plenty of time lol
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@bayimports said in NZ tour of India:
@no-quarter said in NZ tour of India:
I'm blown away by 0 wickets that session.
me too, incredibly happy, although pitch hasn't got worse, but no woeful shot selection yet either
still plenty of time lol
a draw is the best we can hope for, barring a miracle. 200 runs at 4 an over is just too much
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@nzzp said in NZ tour of India:
@bayimports said in NZ tour of India:
@no-quarter said in NZ tour of India:
I'm blown away by 0 wickets that session.
me too, incredibly happy, although pitch hasn't got worse, but no woeful shot selection yet either
still plenty of time lol
a draw is the best we can hope for, barring a miracle. 200 runs at 4 an over is just too much
Less than 200 now……all three results still well on the table.
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@nzzp said in NZ tour of India:
@bayimports said in NZ tour of India:
@no-quarter said in NZ tour of India:
I'm blown away by 0 wickets that session.
me too, incredibly happy, although pitch hasn't got worse, but no woeful shot selection yet either
still plenty of time lol
a draw is the best we can hope for, barring a miracle. 200 runs at 4 an over is just too much
Yeah - we're totally fucked.
There's no way our strategy of nudging it around for the next 25 overs to set a friendly T20 target can possibly work.
Only a fucking idiot would say it is ours to lose - and no-one has.
Give the trophy to the Indians now.
No-one believes in jinxes either and this has nothing to do with your post @nzzp.
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@donsteppa said in NZ tour of India:
Rosco is looking a walking wicket out there at this stage. Just survived that dragging of the foot.
Looking like a guy who should have dropped the mike after Southampton
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I'm torn. Ordinarily I'd want to see us go at this total. Any time. And if anything more so now as we're the fucking world champions and should live up to that. But I also get why an away draw is important in the TWC cycle. History will judge us if we bat out a draw. But I'm a bit put out that we're playing this safe.
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@shark said in NZ tour of India:
I'm torn. Ordinarily I'd want to see us go at this total. Any time. And if anything more so now as we're the fucking world champions and should live up to that. But I also get why an away draw is important in the TWC cycle. History will judge us if we bat out a draw. But I'm a bit put out that we're playing this safe.
Look at what happened in the first innings. Seems the pitch has the potential to surrender wickets fast
