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

[Kippax]

Day 1 Highlights, Auckland - YouTube

 

[Daemon]

Kippax <3

India actually managed to hold on to some pretty good catches surprisingly.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Rohit sharma at one point was 1 off 23, I swear this guy uses the exact same approach in ODIs as he does in tests, no wonder he's been so average in limited overs cricket.

As opposed to being awesome in Tests?

 

[Prince EWS]

Kippax <3

India actually managed to hold on to some pretty good catches surprisingly.

Everyone knows it's very important for the security of their place in the side to field well off Ishant.

 

[G.I.Joe]

**** me. We are stuck with Ishant for the next 10 years.

I've come around to making my peace with the realisation that it'll take Dhoni retiring from Test cricket to get rid of Ishant. Ishant probably gives Dhoni relaxing massages at the end of days play every day just to ensure he's fit and fine to play Test cricket as long as possible. #unhappyending

 

[Furball]

Jadeja being picked as the sole spinner has to be some sort of weird selectorial prank.

 

[Woodster]

Really enjoyed watching this day's play and looking forward to Day 3!Firstly it was the ideal opening session for NZ in terms of not allowing the game to standstill and keep it moving forward, going at around six an over in the morning session just propelled them forward at a good rate. McCullum continued batting sensibly, mixing the big hits with good sensible cricket. Anderson seems the perfect type of batsman coming in at six in that situation, willing to play his shots and take the bowlers on, while McCullum also got decent support from Southee and Sodhi in terms of getting on with things.

With the ball I thought Southee was outstanding, especially so in his spell. Boult was none too shabby either and Sodhi showed enough in his six overs to suggest he could be a real handful in both innings. I must really question a couple of the Indian dismissals in terms of the scrambled thinking, especially from Dhawan and Pujara, both falling in the first over. Dhawan had already seen Boult shape a couple away from him then on the third occasion he tried to work it far too square against the swinging new ball and no surprise it ended up in the very good hands of Kane Williamson at gully. Pujara also took leave of his senses and just threw his hands at a wide full delivery slanted across him, you've surely got to give the bowlers those early battles and bide your time. I'm sure the same delivery 10 overs later could well have disappeared to the boundary but Pujara didn't give himself the chance.

I thought Rohit batted really well and took the chance to express himself whenever he was given a bit of width or the chance to drive. A classy batsman to watch, India are going to need plenty more from him on day three. Looking forward to it.

 

[Mixmasterreece]

And that should be the end of both.

Has there ever been a thicker blackcap than Doug?
i.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/9698643/Doug-Bracewell-Jesse-Ryder-back-in-trouble

 

[BeeGee]

And that should be the end of both.

Has there ever been a thicker blackcap than Doug?
i.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/9698643/Doug-Bracewell-Jesse-Ryder-back-in-trouble

I can't wait till NZC announce that Ryder is on his last chance.

Again.

Drop them both and bring in Latham and Henry, imo.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

For crying out loud:

"Bracewell's immediate future with the New Zealand team is under a cloud as team management investigate how he suffered a broken bone in his foot some time between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning."

Seriously?

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Hopefully this is the end of Bracewell

 

[Meridio]

What a ****ing muppet.

 

[Burgey]

God I hope NZ absolutely ****ing paste India here.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Should be a bit of zip in the pitch this morning. A couple of quick wickets and the follow on is in sight.

 

[Flem274*]

for a bloke who should be looking over his shoulder in his domestic team when it's at full strength, let alone the test squad, this is a pretty dumb thing for Dougeh to do. also when you look at how hard henry, mitch, bennett, milne, wheeler, small etc have worked to come back from injury and stay fit you gotta wonder how they look upon a bloke who doesn't take nz selection seriously and gets injured at parties.

ryder is a lot safer in that respect. easily the best middle order batsman outside the team.

 

[Hurricane]

can a Aucklander update us on the weather in the city of sails plox.

 

[Howsie]

for a bloke who should be looking over his shoulder in his domestic team when it's at full strength, let alone the test squad, this is a pretty dumb thing for Dougeh to do. also when you look at how hard henry, mitch, bennett, milne, wheeler, small etc have worked to come back from injury and stay fit you gotta wonder how they look upon a bloke who doesn't take nz selection seriously and gets injured at parties.

ryder is a lot safer in that respect. easily the best middle order batsman outside the team.

Bracewell would probably make the CD team as a batsmen tbf

 

[Flem274*]

Bracewell would probably make the CD team as a batsmen tbf

yovich opened the batting for ND

 

[Mike5181]

can a Aucklander update us on the weather in the city of sails plox.

Sun just coming through a bit at the moment. It was raining until like three in the morning though. Ground might be a bit wet.

 

[RxGM]

can a Aucklander update us on the weather in the city of sails plox.

Rained really heavily last night, but has not rained since I got up around 7am this morning. Bit of wind and plenty of cloud in the sky but it is starting to break up.