hendrix
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I agree that NZ haven't batted or bowled particularly well, but honestly it sounded like only Ishant bowled well. Zaheer was poor and Shami seems to have been gifted his wicket.While I agree that was a stupid thing to do, it's only a lottery if both teams bowl decently and because of the pitch, both batting lineups get bowled out cheaply. Regardless of the state of the pitch, NZ have bowled piss. We've batted far better so far as well
India certainly had the better conditions to bowl in, but yeah the NZ bowlers should be doing better than this.
I'm not really panicking though, there were odd 20 over blocks when NZ bowled poorly vs West Indies but came back the next session/day to blow them away. It's going to be a bit tougher with India, and India are still definitely on top, but I'm expecting it to be a bit more difficult for them tomorrow.