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

[Flem274*]

that might be rudds last crack in tests for a bit. i was just about to post it's crucial we get off to a good start so india's resolve is tested. we need to make them surrender so they're softer in the second innings. that wicket will make them feel a bit better going into lunch.

 

[Flem274*]

richardson the opening batsman in "bowlers are motorcycles" shocker

 

[Zinzan]

For all his natural ability as a stroke-maker, Rutherford ain't a test openers finger-nail at this point of his career.

 

[Woodster]

We rely so much on Southee and Boult that injury for either of them would be utter disaster which probably factored into the decision to bat again. Considering there's so much time left in the test I'm happy to play it safe to protect those two.

Yes that's fair enough to protect them, but I reckon if they bowled as well with the new ball again this Test could effectively have been over in the afternoon session and use them in short bursts thereafter, surely they're fit enough to do so. Allowing India to bowl in these conditions might just give them a bit of a pick-me-up with a few wickets, not sufficiently so to bring them back into this Test mind.

 

[Mike5181]

I don't know how anyone with a brain could think this decision was the wrong one

 

[hendrix]

Steve Davis needs a spell, btw. Some of the wides he was calling weren't wide, and weren't consistent with how lenient he was with India's bowlers. And then there was his awful calls on the LBWs.

 

[Days of Grace]

Loving that we are having the follow-on debate almost every test match these days.

 

[Zinzan]

Steve Davis needs a spell, btw. Some of the wides he was calling weren't wide, and weren't consistent with how lenient he was with India's bowlers. And then there was his awful calls on the LBWs.

Agree, he's fast becoming the 'Steve Bucknor' of the 2010s

 

[Prensel]

Wow Fulton, really?

 

[Flem274*]

rudds likes that wicket

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Oh great.

Sacrificial openers not doing there jobs at all.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

FFS Fulton. Just hit it waist high to cover. Terrible shot at this level

 

[Howsie]

**** off Fulton you scrub. God this better be his last test

 

[Meridio]

Plan should be to get through to lunch without losing another wicket, then bat positively until about 10 overs to the end of the day. That should set India a target of 550-ish, which should be well out of reach and give us enough time to bowl them out.

Ugh, Fulton gone as I type.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

i was just about to say how did i ever think rudds was better than fulton

 

[Flem274*]

at this rate papps will get a recall

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Steve Davis needs a spell, btw. Some of the wides he was calling weren't wide, and weren't consistent with how lenient he was with India's bowlers. And then there was his awful calls on the LBWs.

Yeah one of the ones against anderson was barely a ODI wide.

 

[Woodster]

I don't know how anyone with a brain could think this decision was the wrong one

I don't know how anyone with a brain can't see that you can make a decent case for either option and both decisions should see NZ win this Test. However, as India take another wicket, it just seems that India are going to gain more from this decision, imo, with conditions the way they are.

 

[DingDong]

what was that fulton??

 

[Flem274*]

KW and to a lesser extent Ross have the hardest jobs in world cricket imo. de facto openers.