Black Caps tour of India
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@Virgil said in Black Caps tour of India:
@ACT-Crusader said in Black Caps tour of India:
So from this series
Sir Matt Henry
Sir Rachin Ravindra
Sir Mitch Santner
Sir Ajaz PatelId chuck in Sir Will Young (player of the series) and even put in a special mention to Glenn Phillips
Scored some valuable runs and took wicketsAnd that's kind is the point. Basically everyone contributed so some staff.
That said, I think we should get looking hard at a new keeper
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Some of the comments and replies over in Reddit are gold, heres a few of the best ones..
A kiwi whitewash without Kane, no less....
-Did it without Santner in two tests tooBefore the series started, we all knew nothing could stop a 3-0 victory. So sad to see test cricket dying with predictable results such as this
Smh my head, new zealand should stop scheduling series with such minnows just to boost their wtc chances
It was over once Pant went down..
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@Virgil I was loving the comments about Australia should start producing some turning pitches for as clearly India can’t play spin or even part time spin in test matches.
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@bayimports said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Virgil I was loving the comments about Australia should start producing some turning pitches for as clearly India can’t play spin or even part time spin in test matches.
That series will be most interesting.
India away from home and their confidence will be shot to pieces. Very hard to see much going right for them over there
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The whole series was a big LOL really
we embarrassed them in the first test with brilliant pace bowling, dismissing them for 46 LOLThey then instruct their groundsmen to prepare a more 'home friendly' spin friendly pitch for the 2nd test..result we belt them harder with Santner wrecking them LOL
They go harder likely behind the scenes demanding something more in their favour for the 3rd test pitch
Result another humiliation as India for the first time ever at home cant chase a sub 200 score at home and lose 0-3 LOL -
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@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
@bayimports said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Virgil I was loving the comments about Australia should start producing some turning pitches for as clearly India can’t play spin or even part time spin in test matches.
That series will be most interesting.
India away from home and their confidence will be shot to pieces. Very hard to see much going right for them over there
I can see them getting hammered by the Aussie seamers on fast bouncy wickets. Could get ugly
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@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:
@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
@bayimports said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Virgil I was loving the comments about Australia should start producing some turning pitches for as clearly India can’t play spin or even part time spin in test matches.
That series will be most interesting.
India away from home and their confidence will be shot to pieces. Very hard to see much going right for them over there
I can see them getting hammered by the Aussie seamers on fast bouncy wickets. Could get ugly
does T20 prepare you for that though? My opinion of T20 revised completely after India got up at the Gabba a few years ago with a team of T20 specialists. In some ways you get bouncy, fast pitches with fast bowlers going all out - good prep for Tests in some ways. Yes, this is a hot take.
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@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of India:
@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:
@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
@bayimports said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Virgil I was loving the comments about Australia should start producing some turning pitches for as clearly India can’t play spin or even part time spin in test matches.
That series will be most interesting.
India away from home and their confidence will be shot to pieces. Very hard to see much going right for them over there
I can see them getting hammered by the Aussie seamers on fast bouncy wickets. Could get ugly
does T20 prepare you for that though? My opinion of T20 revised completely after India got up at the Gabba a few years ago with a team of T20 specialists. In some ways you get bouncy, fast pitches with fast bowlers going all out - good prep for Tests in some ways. Yes, this is a hot take.
I don't think they were T20 specialists, just the 'A' team wider squad players. Although, I guess Sundar could be pretty much described as that at that stage, though. Probably was why he was there because of T20 series pre the test series.
India send their 'A' team to the same location as their main test tour (e.g. India A and Aus A are playing a series currently) so they have the best prepared wider squad. The other 2 in the Big3 also have the resources to do this.
It is almost impossible for an Indian player to be a T20 specialist as Finn Allen is doing or the West Indians do. The BCCI refuses to let any Indian players play in the overseas t20 leagues, presumably to protect the IPL's position. So even a Hardik Pandya type probably plays more FC games a year than an NZ plunket shield specialist.
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Bloody ripper result, has to be our greatest cricket achievement ever.
Funnily enough I was at an Indian restaurant on Saturday night and they had a tv with the cricket on. I was able to watch the BCs go from 3 down to 9 down in the time it took to eat my Rogan Josh. I mentioned to the waiter who was an avid Indian fan as I was leaving that I am a kiwi and I was pretty happy with what was going to be a 2-1 series win for us. Then didn’t check the result until last night thinking India would have comfortably got the required runs just after lunch some time.
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I think losing 0-2 would have been an okish result if we at least showed fight.
Losing 1-2 better.
Drawing 1-1 better still.
Winning 2-0 or 2-1 ? Fantasy stuff.
Winning 3-0 ?!?!?!?!?!?!??!
You’re absolutely dreaming.
Don’t wake me up !!!!!!
An absolutely remarkable result.
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@dogmeat said in Black Caps tour of India:
Favourite sporting memory ever - across all sports
Have to be mine too I think.
I want to go back and find all the comments about a 3 nil whitewash in this thread...
I didn't actually post any of them, but I did concur and am absolutely delighted to have been SOOOOO wrong. Wow. Just fucking WOW.
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@Nogusta said in Black Caps tour of India:
And still not the front (back) page main story in the Herald today 🙄
Instead it's about the All Black's bench 🙄🙄it should be a national fucking holiday
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I wonder what the TAB odds of a 3-0 series win to NZ were?
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NZ had never whitewashed a 3 match (or more) series ever in their history before. Home or away, minnow or giant.
Closest would have been 2014ish when we beat Windies 2-nil in a 3 match series and the first test was drawn when Shane Shillgford put our 4th innings chase into enough of a wobble that we went too slow in a fairly low chase before rain came in final session of the 5th day.
Since we've become actually good at test cricket since 2014, we've had mostly 2-test only home series, of which we've 'whitewashed' plenty. But 2 tests is not really a series, is just a sequence.
Also series v the minnows elevated to test status after us (early Bangladesh, early Sri Lanka, Zim etc were 2 match series. Even back in the 80s)
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@Nogusta said in Black Caps tour of India:
And still not the front (back) page main story in the Herald today 🙄
Instead it's about the All Black's bench 🙄🙄Which is hilarious too considering how many anti rugby articles the Herald likes to pedal.
Anyone have any good memes, as a born again cricket fan last week I'd like to spam a couple of my Indian mates with some meme banter.
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@Cyclops said in Black Caps tour of India:
What a feeling. This is right up there with the WTC final. WTC was for a world championship so that's really special, and I think I would have ranked the WTC win higher if that had ended up a 2-1 (or 2-0) series. But to be better than India, in India consistently across three tests is a phenomenon achievement, so I'd rank it as the block caps best ever result.
My son was born on the 30th of September. Black caps haven't lost a test since!
Congrats bro.
After the first test win and then during the second when we were taking wicket after wicket it started to feel like the 96 Boks tour. Being able to climb that mountain of a series win.
