Black Caps tour of India

[1kiwi]

Amateur run out there from O'Rourke. There is no excuse for run outs in test cricket.

[Cyclops]

It's extra frustrating when a big part of our success yesterday was our running (especially Latham).

[Chris B.]

Honestly, we should have enough.

India will need to score the third highest 4th innings score ever, in India - to win this - and the commentators are saying how much more difficult this is than the pitch in Chennai where they won in 2008.

It will take a couple of extraordinary innings to get them home - and probably close to four sessions, so the pitch should continue to wear.

[nzzp]

Are those the only angles? Really?

[Chris B.]

Crikey - I'm not convinced he didn't catch that! I reckon if he'd sprinted about celebrating it might have been given.

[ACT Crusader]

A target of 359 for India, we got this….

[1kiwi]

India going after this. NZ will need to have them 4 or 5 down before the end of the day to have a chance of winning the test.

[ACT Crusader]

Love how Jaiswal bats.

Get SatNav on next over

[nzzp]

He's got to back up this innings

Santner that is

[MN5]

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

That's extremely poor running from O'Rourke. He needs a bullocking for that. Not good enough.

Very much a specialist bowler, I get that but you should NOT get fucken run out in a test match ! Ever !

He’d better bowl well,

India have started with a hiss and a roar, this game might be over soon.

[Chris B.]

Burned a review, so I'll use my first fuck you, Blundell!

[Donsteppa]

O'Rourke is going to challenge Chris Martin's record with the bat at this rate. At least Martin wasn't a lazy bugger in the process.

[Donsteppa]

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

Burned a review, so I'll use my first fuck you, Blundell!

Thought that one was the regular reminder that - for however bad umpires can be - the players are usually worse...

[MN5]

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of India:

O'Rourke is going to challenge Chris Martin's record with the bat at this rate. At least Martin wasn't a lazy bugger in the process.

Yeah if he gets cleaned up by a beauty of a ball you shrug and say “ah well, he’s number 11…”

But he still has to be professional and do all he can to support the established batsman.

There’s nothing more admirable in cricket than a tailender supporting a batsman to a milestone.

[Crazy Horse]

@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:

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

That's extremely poor running from O'Rourke. He needs a bullocking for that. Not good enough.

Very much a specialist bowler, I get that but you should NOT get fucken run out in a test match ! Ever !

He’d better bowl well,

India have started with a hiss and a roar, this game might be over soon.

I hinted at this a few days ago - O'Rouke has very mopey body language. He looks disinterested at times. While things are going well for him people will over look it, but when he fucks up or gets consistently tonked people will question him a little more than others. I say this because I was always accused of looking mopey even when I was trying and it was frustrating for me.

[nzzp]

@Crazy-Horse is he Sotutu in disguise?

[MN5]

Santner !!!!!!

Eight for the match son ! Amazing !!!!!

[Chris B.]

Here's one I prepared earlier, Rohit!

[MN5]

Interesting stuff.

Fair to say the others have started much stronger than Ravindra has…..but these guys could well be of that KW/Kohli/Root/Smith class.

Will be interesting to check back in a couple of years

[Donsteppa]

O'Rourke's laziness sums up the Black Caps this session. They look like a team who woke up and just expected things to unfold for them.