Black Caps tour of India

[No Quarter]

That is unlucky, 0.001mm made it umpires call, looked outside the line both live and on replay

[No Quarter]

That was a real captains knock from Latham though, has put us in a position to win the game

[Chris]

Unlucky Latham that 86 might win this test match was the right shot he has sweep well all day attacking the spinners unlucky he hit the ground with his bat and missed it,

[Chris]

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:

That was a real captains knock from Latham though, has put us in a position to win the game

Yeah great knock on a real difficult wkt.

[Chris]

@1kiwi said in Black Caps tour of India:

Dumb shot Latham

No right shot he has scored all day sweeping just unlucky he toed the bat on the ground.

[Chris]

@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:

Don't know if we've got enough yet - but, if you'd offered me NZ setting India 280 to win in the 4th innings I'd have bitten your hand off!

No we need 350 lead we can still get there.

[Chris]

Blundell doing well we need 50 from him now he is set.

[canefan]

If we can get around 100 from the last 5 batsmen we will have set them a daunting target to save the match

[No Quarter]

I can't believe we won the first test and have a 300 run lead on a turning pitch in the second with 5 wickets in hand. Amazing stuff.

[canefan]

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:

I can't believe we won the first test and have a 300 run lead on a turning pitch in the second with 5 wickets in hand. Amazing stuff.

The SL series was just a warm up for this series as it turned out, which I don't agree with

[Chris B.]

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:

I can't believe we won the first test and have a 300 run lead on a turning pitch in the second with 5 wickets in hand. Amazing stuff.

And Little Kane is sitting on his couch watching it on telly - just like us!

[canefan]

And no Matt Henry

[No Quarter]

Santner and Latham, take a bow. What a day.

[canefan]

What a hugely satisfying days cricket for NZ. We are in the box seat with the dream of a series win in India in sight

[Chris B.]

Some interesting stats on highest 4th innings totals in India...

https://www.business-standard.com/cricket/news/india-vs-england-highest-4th-innings-totals-in-india-in-test-history-124020400381_1.html

[Cyclops]

What a great day. I think we won all 3 sessions comfortably. Whatever we end up setting them now we'll be the favourites, but India still in the game. Another 50 runs will make it extremely tough and another 100 (for a lead of 400) will be as close to a guarantee as you get in test cricket.

This partnership is going to be important tomorrow. If they can find those next 50 runs then it puts us a really good position for the tail to wag against a tired and deflated bowling attack. On the other hand, if they can break it early they'll back themselves to clean things up quickly and limit the chase to 350.

[barky1]

@canefan how was it a "warm up" when we've played mostly, the same team?

[barky1]

@Chris-B he's probably still making his twin give him 5000 throwdowns every day

[ACT Crusader]

2 days of test cricket.

25 wickets fallen.

513 runs scored.

Actioned packed by any form’s standard.

[canefan]

@barky1 said in Black Caps tour of India:

@canefan how was it a "warm up" when we've played mostly, the same team?

I mean that we had no warm up games in SL, so in hindsight we did not take that series seriously enough. It only served to get us used to sub continental conditions, and we have been dramatically better in India