***Official*** India in New Zealand 2013/14

[_Ed_]

I don't understand bowling Southee out. He's our only good death bowler.

Yeah, doesn't make sense to me at all. And all the while poor old Mills still has four left.

 

[Blocky]

To you lucky pricks who are able to watch, what is the pitch playing like? Par score?

Par - I'd say 265 for most sides, but based on the series performance to date, anything short of 285 won't feel like enough.

 

[Zinzan]

To you lucky pricks who are able to watch, what is the pitch playing like? Par score?

Good consistent bounce if not a tad slower than usual Hamilton wickets. 280 = par for mine.

 

[straw man]

NcCullum's bowling has been good this series - yes he bowls through the middle overs and so we would expect a lower econ rate than most other bowlers, but even so consistently conceding under 5 per over from his spells is pretty good.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

I don't understand bowling Southee out. He's our only good death bowler.

I think you forgot about Kyle Mills.

 

[Jono]

Cricinfo ball by ball bloke just shutting down the angry Indian fans today. Quite amusing

 

[_Ed_]

Jadeja picking up right where he left off in that heartbreakingly awesome innings on Saturday.

 

[Days of Grace]

Stop bowling ****ing short!

Also, does Dhoni ever get out below 50 in ODI cricket?

 

[Blakey]

India scoring faster now that the power play is finished. Makes sense.

 

[Blocky]

And here we see Bennett playing the "short ball" routine..

Look at the last six to ten overs by the pace bowlers - full and straight = singles or dots. Short = fours, sixes and misqueued singles. Bennett has gone short twice this over and gone for four both times. Why are they not learning from this ****? Short is fine when the heat isn't on for boundary scoring, because playing a short ball defensively or attempting to find gaps is much harder - but wanting to hit fours, getting short bowling opens up every single option you can imagine.

 

[Days of Grace]

Yorkers, anyone?

 

[Blocky]

****s sake Bennett.

 

[_Ed_]

Yorkers, anyone?

Doesn't seem to occur to them.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

McCullum to act surprised when Mills gets tonked at the death.

 

[Zinzan]

Good to see 'Mr Death' coming into the attack.

 

[Blocky]

Before this tour, everyone spoke of Jadeja as a laughing stock considering his high first class record and lack of international performance - good to see NZ playing another one of these types of players into form.

 

[Zinzan]

****s sake Bennett.

Yeah, really poor execution. The margin of error is so much less on a slow wicket for a Bennett-like bowler.

 

[Burgey]

Cricinfo ball by ball bloke just shutting down the angry Indian fans today. Quite amusing

Should make him a CW Global Moderator.

 

[Blakey]

Final score prediction??

 

[Blocky]

Yeah, really poor execution. The margin of error is so much less on a slow wicket for a Bennett-like bowler.

I just don't see what these guys are offering that means we can't invest a good run of ODIs into Trent Boult. The talk is that it means we're a bit samey in terms of bowlers at the top order, all relying on swing - but Mills, Bennett, McCleneghan all pretty much rely on swing too.