CWC Semi-final 1: India v New Zealand

[Bones]

Supergroove! The DJ's have been pretty ace.

[Bones]

@DaGrubster you are a gem

[Bones]

Highly approve.

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[DaGrubster]

The Aussie blonde that I have seen as a presenter in this tournament is actually Matt Hayden’s daughter!

[KiwiMurph]

What the fuck is the 3rd umpire looking at.

One view does it

[ACT Crusader]

A lifeline!

[KiwiMurph]

Why send out Latham now?

[ACT Crusader]

The collapse is on

[KiwiMurph]

Gee i'm glad Latham is in the team instead of a proper keeper......

[ACT Crusader]

Kane got done by a slower one and Latham’s poor form continued.

[ACT Crusader]

Could be a match winning over right there from Shami

[MajorRage]

Gave it a crack but we're gonna end up quite short.

Great effort from the batters, can't criticise them really.

[KiwiMurph]

Avoided embarassment so well done to the batsmen.

Unearthed a star in Ravindra, made the semi finals (admittedly in a weak world cup) - a good world cup for a flawed team.

[akan004]

Bowlers were pathetic. Boult and Southee are past it and Ferguson was really disappointing

We bowled too many short balls, took far too long to bowl slower balls and why we didn't bowl yorkers at the end is beyond me. Restrict them to 350 and we would have had a decent chance. Henry was a big loss.

[Donsteppa]

Probably not a bad tournament in the end, especially allowing for the state of the bowling attack, and Tom Latham being a passenger.

The IPL auction might be very interesting to watch this year for Rachin Ravindra…

[KiwiPie]

Beaten by a better team - I've always thought we go to the short ball way too often and don't have the pace to get away with it. Always thought that we needed early wickets to stand a chance, much too popgun to restrict India otherwise.

[Bovidae]

Once India was able to bat first the script became predictable. My only surprise was hearing that NZ got that close.

[dogmeat]

@ACT-Crusader said in CWC Semi-final 1: India v New Zealand:

@Damo said in CWC Semi-final 1: India v New Zealand:

@Canes4life said in CWC Semi-final 1: India v New Zealand:

Going to be a very long innings me thinks.

We've set 400 so we can chase it. No issues there.

The issue will be whether we can chase the 430 that we will need.

I don’t think we can chase 400 against this Indian bowling lineup. 350 possibly but even then.

Other than Mitchell and Kane I worry about our guys against Bumrah and the spin

Remarkably prescient apart from which Indian would shatter our hopes.

[MN5]

When both openers go for 13 you know things aren’t going to go right.

Ah well, semis yet again, pretty damn respectable.

Everyone has had a go at the bowlers but is it time to have a rethink about Tom Latham in the shorter form of the game ? His form fell off a cliff.

[MajorRage]

Lots of talk of criticism of our bowlers, but I think if you take scoreboard pressure out of it we would have got 350-370.

Given all the advantages India had, that’s not far off so perhaps this criticism is slightly unfair. Indian bowling line up is pretty awesome.