*Official* New Zealand in India 2010

[BeeGee]

Why bother? They're gonna be clinical and awesome. What's to discuss?

NZ, on the other hand, could be any number of different things - promising, yet ****; idiotic and ****; horrendously outclassed and ****; downright pathetic and ****.

Or just plain ****.

 

[vcs]

Love the NZ fans' enthusiasm for their side, FWIW. Keep it going, I learn plenty about NZ cricketers by looking at this thread.

 

[Chewie]

Why do you say McKay didn't bowl well in Bangladesh?

His figures from the tour:
He bowled 24 overs, took 5 wickets and conceded 113 runs.
That's a bowling average of 22.6 and an economy rate of 4.7.
For a fast bowler bowling on dry, spin friendly pitches those are pretty good figures.

He was really off and on and had a couple of good spells, but had the same amount or more terrible ones.

3 of his wickets were to the tail, and one other was just a terrible shot by Siddique.

tbh I thought his stats for the series were worse than that too

 

[Flem274*]

I can see why they like McKay (Hell, I like him). He can swing it both ways at a reasonable clip.

 

[Flem274*]

Are we talking about the two test match series in Australia. When I was watching him bowl to the lefties it looked like he was bowling cross seam to avoid getting any swing when he was beating the outside the edge. I don't recall the exact delivery you saw - but I am hoping it wasn't a cross seam delivery and was a genuine cutter on purpose. Do you recall details of the delivery and the seam position. Would be a good sign if he has been seaming it away from lefties at will.

Pretty sure it was a cutter. I vaguely remember C9 showing the variation of how he bowled it as well.

 

[Meridio]

Pretty sure it was a cutter. I vaguely remember C9 showing the variation of how he bowled it as well.

Na, was just a cross-seam delivery. Remember it well, was swinging it in to the left handers and then got rid off both Hayden and Katich with cross-seam deliveries going across them.

Also remember that match for us butchering a golden opportunity for the 412462726784th time.

 

[Howsie]

YouTube - Expert Analysis - Tim Nielsen on Tim Southee

They were definitely cutters.

 

[Hurricane]

YouTube - Expert Analysis - Tim Nielsen on Tim Southee

They were definitely cutters.

In the clip they show a replay of the ball that got KAtich and it was a cross seam delivery. Maybe that is just how he grips his off cutter? And Nielsen definitely says that he was rolling his fingers across the ball...so you would think he would know.

 

[Polo23]

Looks like a regular cross seam delivery to me

 

[Daemon]

Has anyone seen Irfan bowl recently? Does he look anything like his old self? He did really well with both bat and ball last season for Baroda, averaging under 20 with the ball.

 

[irottev]

Now that people are finally jumping on my "Martin sux lolz" wagon, he's so going to take 6 wickets in the first innings.

I'm not on that Wagon. I think he's gun.

 

[SilentOne]

Nah he's over the hill, I'll be surprised if he picks up 5 wickets this whole series tbh.

 

[Halfpast_Yellow]

I hope he wears that awesome headband

 

[Hurricane]

That headband is awesome.

I want to watch the game while wearing one.

 

[Flem274*]

I hope he wears that awesome headband

I'd drop him if he forgot it, even if he got a 5fer.

 

[Chewie]

hahaha his headband is truely awesome.

I love watching him bat though. It's just so funny.

 

[Hurricane]

I think he has matching sweat bands to go with it.

A story for you - I was once facing a bowler with red sweatbands. I could see that he was proud of them. So I told the umpire they were clashing with the ball and said he had to take them off. The bowler was crest fallen.

 

[honestbharani]

I think he has matching sweat bands to go with it.

A story for you - I was once facing a bowler with red sweatbands. I could see that he was proud of them. So I told the umpire they were clashing with the ball and said he had to take them off. The bowler was crest fallen.

Dean Jones, Curtly Anbrose, 5 for 1 etc. etc..

 

[Teja.]

There is an approximate progression of Tendulkar's first Innings scores in the last three tests

41, 98 and 214.

Tendulkar to score 400 in the first test against NZ.

 

[Flem274*]

Please don't joke about it.