Black Caps tour of India

[Donsteppa]

And to do it without Kane.

[Cyclops]

Never in doubt.

[Chris B.]

Fabulous effort!

Didn't give us a chance at the start of the series.

In one game, Mitch Santner reduces his bowling average from 42 to 36. And he'll get treated with more respect by batsmen in future, which will help him be more successful.

[Steven Harris]

Brilliant..!
Should sit right up there in NZ sport

[Donsteppa]

Santner's stamina in the heat was also exceptional. Bowled unchanged from memory in both innings once he was brought into the attack.

[Canerbry]

Santner in this test is one of the outstanding individual performances in New Zealand sport. A superstar effort against the best in the world.

[Donsteppa]

[DaGrubster]

@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:

Wow.

Last week was amazing and this is even better.

Solid performances across the board but holy shit, Mitch Santner, where the FUCK did that come from !?!?!

Man of the match, absolutely incredible. You can dine out on this forever.

It’s pretty special to back it up with another win. Normally, you would expect India to come roaring back but to beat them again, on a wicket that they produced so heavily in their favour is fantastic. What a win!!

[MN5]

@DaGrubster said in Black Caps tour of India:

@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:

Wow.

Last week was amazing and this is even better.

Solid performances across the board but holy shit, Mitch Santner, where the FUCK did that come from !?!?!

Man of the match, absolutely incredible. You can dine out on this forever.

It’s pretty special to back it up with another win. Normally, you would expect India to come roaring back but to beat them again, on a wicket that they produced so heavily in their favour is fantastic. What a win!!

Absolutely. Fully expected a bit of a hiding to be honest

[Donsteppa]

[MN5]

So is Henry available for the final test cos surely he gets back in but will they finally drop Southee ?

Will KW be fit ( if so Young probably goes )

[Canes4life]

The funny thing is the Indians will be in all sorts trying to figure out how they can amend the pitch in their favour in Mumbai.

[Tim]

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

In one game, Mitch Santner reduces his bowling average from 42 to 36.

Holy shit! What a stat.

[KiwiMurph]

Isn't that the beauty of sport. No one would have called these results 2 weeks ago

Huge credit to the whole team.

Santner how good. A talented cricketer has his moment on the big stage. Brilliant.

[bayimports]

I would also like to thank Satner’s biggest supporter for making this happen.

Anirudh Suresh  /  Oct 14

How bad are Santner’s numbers in Tests? Way worse than you think | New Zealand tour of India, 2024

All the numbers point towards the left-arm spinner being a liability for the Kiwis in red-ball cricket

[canefan]

@bayimports said in Black Caps tour of India:

I would also like to thank Satner’s biggest supporter for making this happen.

Anirudh Suresh  /  Oct 14

How bad are Santner’s numbers in Tests? Way worse than you think | New Zealand tour of India, 2024

All the numbers point towards the left-arm spinner being a liability for the Kiwis in red-ball cricket

Not far away from what many of us thought. Good on Mitch to give us the middle finger!

[Donsteppa]

One of many astonishing parts of the series win - usually our unexpected wins are ridiculously tense. Hobart springs to mind. On the scoreboard at least, these were never close.

Even the occasional senses of dread that started to appear in this thread were by historical doom-reflex, than the actual scorecard.

[nzzp]

That was extraordinary. If you bet on us at the start of each match you'd turn a dollar into $175

To do that in such different ways without Kane was incredible. There's a song somewhere in there

We beat them with pace
We beat them with spin
They doctored the pitches
And yet we still win

[Bovidae]

A fantastic result. Good to see that most of the Indian fans stayed to the end, although they cleared out quickly.

It was nice that they gave the final word to Smith in the commentary.

[nzzp]

@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of India:

We beat them with pace
We beat them with spin
They doctored the pitches
And yet we still win

I'm on holiday, so why not:

They wish they had Dravid
They wish they had Sachin
They still have the spinners
And yet we still win