vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
Southee's definitely run his fingers over it, undercutting it almost. Definitely trying to get the ball to move away from the left hander.
He might not get a chance to score so big.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.
Indian conditions won't be any worse than that of Bangladesh, so having no warm-up games shouldn't really be a concern for us.So, no warm-up games? WTF, tbh.
Lol i forgot about them.What about the guys who don't play ODIs?
The problem is India have a very annoying/great ability to play to their opposition. They stare down Australia in their prime and then go and lose to Zimbabwe. That's just how it works.NZ barely have a bowling attack, our batting revolves around Ross Taylor, a player who would still be considered a very junior member of the Indian batting lineup. Conditions will favour spin which NZ struggles against.
If India goes into this expecting anything less than 3-0 they are the direst number 1 team ever. Back your boys FFS, otherwise if we draw or dare I say it even manage to somehow win a match it won't be as sweet.
You'd have to show us a pic of thatIf NZ win the series, I will go to my job in my pajamas.
Our top three can't play spin. There's only so many runs Taylor, Ryder and Vettori can score.They won't win the series. But they will run us close. It will be much closer than people think. And really our bowling attack isn't all that flash, Zaheer aside our attack is still pretty crap. I won't comment on the 2nd and 3rd test but if NZ don't score big in Ahemdabad then god help em, cuz Ahemdabad = Napier basically (the first 45 minutes of day 1 aside).
Sooooooo he's not good enough to do it in one day cricket - all this talk he'll be pushed back down the order but he's good enough to do it at the test level?In other news, McCullum might be opening.
New Zealand in India: McCullum may open the batting for NZ | Cricket News | India v New Zealand | Cricinfo.com
And it might be for the best, because he's stated he just wants to launch. There is no way in hell I want him at number three if he wants to try and emulate Sehwag et al. Just asking to be 10/2.