*Official* New Zealand in India 2010

[Blaze 18]

Minus the bowling duds like Oijha and Sreesanth, India has a rather decent bowling attack.

Well, that is half of India's bowling attack. You could add Harbhajan Singh to that list as well; he has been living off one extraordinary series in 2001 for ages. So that only leaves Zaheer Khan.

 

[pup11]

Haven't followed the game so far, but still by the look of things seems like the pitch is a mine-field.
Kind of sad to hear about the injuries to likes of Ryder and Baz who were quite comfortably the best of batsmen for the Black Caps.
New Zealand's best hope now is to add as many runs as they can tomorrow and then hope that India too suffers a similar fate when they come out to bat.

 

[Blaze 18]

It's better than average, Zaheer khan is the best pacer in the subcontinent atm. Supporting bowlers aren't horrible either. So I'd say it's more than handy for a team with such a great batting lineup.awta btw, Dhoni's captaincy is mediocre at best (in tests).

Zaheer Khan is only one bowler; the second pacer and the two spinners have consistently churned out mediocre performance after mediocre performance.

I agree with the bolded part. India's current batting line-up is possibly among the best ever, so it is no surprise that India have done extremely well over the last few years despite an average bowling attack.

As for MS Dhoni's captaincy, the less said the better. India have been winning because of the side they have, not because of his tactical nous. His true test will come when Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Virender Sehwag all retire.

 

[Blaze 18]

Haven't followed the game so far, but still by the look of things seems like the pitch is a mine-field.
Kind of sad to hear about the injuries to likes of Ryder and Baz who were quite comfortably the best of batsmen for the Black Caps.
New Zealand's best hope now is to add as many runs as they can tomorrow and then hope that India too suffers a similar fate when they come out to bat.

The pitch is not a minefield.

 

[Flem274*]

Lol NZ. Hand over the avatar SS.

Respect to McCullum and Ryder. An injured Baz or Jess is still>>>>>>>>>>>Subtill/Twatling combined.

 

[joels344]

Well, that is half of India's bowling attack. You could add Harbhajan Singh to that list as well; he has been living off one extraordinary series in 2001 for ages. So that only leaves Zaheer Khan.

Yeah, Singh is off almost all innings he bowls nowadays. Ishant Sharma could be an excellent bowler, if he worked on his form to prevent him from no-balls and countless errors.

 

[NZTailender]

Great to see the bad old attitudes come out again. I'm not so pessimistic, and won't judge this match until India have batted and we're at the crease again.

One bad day and it's 'back to normal'. We've competed very well in 2 tests so far so this day is the odd one out. Have a bit of faith, please.

 

[ringo16]

I'm just glad that this is the 3rd test, not the 1st, and the whole series will still be semi-respectable at 1-0. That said, we haven't lost this game yet, I'll still be watching.

 

[Cevno]

India squad for first two ODIs v New Zealand: Gautam Gambhir (capt), M Vijay, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Saurabh Tiwary, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, R Vinay Kumar, Munaf Patel, Sreesanth, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja.

 

[Howe_zat]

India squad for first two ODIs v New Zealand: Gautam Gambhir (capt), M Vijay, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Saurabh Tiwary, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Ashwin, Praveen Kumar, R Vinay Kumar, Munaf Patel, Sreesanth, Yusuf Pathan, Ravindra Jadeja.

Oh ffs...

 

[marc71178]

He's not terrible.

 

[thierry henry]

How did Ryder injure himself? The injury prone-ness of our cricketers is completely ludicrous.

 

[SilentOne]

It's the same calf strain he got from being over bowled in the first test.

 

[Jono]

Can just feel a partnership between Southee and McCullum brewing.

 

[_Ed_]

Hope McCullum's feeling better.

 

[Flem274*]

Jesse Ryder is such a good batsman. Would rather him on one leg than all the Martin Guptills and BJ Watlings in the world.

Someone needs to make an NZ top three wheel of mediocrity:

Papps
Cumming
Bell
Redmond
How
Jarshall
Fulton
Flynn
Guptill
Watling

 

[Prince EWS]

Jesse Ryder is such a good batsman. Would rather him on one leg than all the Martin Guptills and BJ Watlings in the world.

Someone needs to make an NZ top three wheel of mediocrity:

Papps
Cumming
Bell
Redmond
How
Jarshall
Fulton
Flynn
Guptill
Watling

Don't forget Mills.

 

[Flem274*]

Don't forget Mills.

Not his fault Bracewell had a theory. Not/shouldn't be Millzeh's job to bat at three.

 

[vcs]

Ryder's technique just looks impenetrable once he gets in. His backlift is virtually non-existent and he very rarely plays across his pads. How he still manages to generate so much power in his shots is beyond me.

 

[Kippax]

Ingram? Sorry, really goes without saying it was just an oversight.