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OverratedSanity

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Jono said:
OS, Daemon, Pratters - thoughts on this being up there with some of the dumbest cricket India have played for a while. Not necessarily worst but just strategically stupid decisions?
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Worst since the last time Dhoni decided to tell the bowlers to bowl 6 half trackers an over? Yes.

So, when was the last time Brisbane test vs Aus where we managed to gift Johnson and the rest of the tail 200 extra runs? Come to think of it, we did it in the death overs in the WC semi vs Aus too.
 
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Jono said:
I don't get this attitude and people said it about WI vs. NZ. You realise just 2 hours ago Saffers showed you can score fast in the first 10 without batting like idiots. Like the perfect example of how to score 400 (i.e. bat well early, punish the bad balls, but keep wickets in hand) was just on display. Just copy it.
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Dont think SA are gonna give us enough bad balls for that to work tbh.

Boom or bust. Series is lost if we lose this, and with 9.5 an over needed now we need to play this like two T20s.
 
kykweer.proteas

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Jono said:
I don't get this attitude and people said it about WI vs. NZ. You realise just 2 hours ago Saffers showed you can score fast in the first 10 without batting like idiots. Like the perfect example of how to score 400 (i.e. bat well early, punish the bad balls, but keep wickets in hand) was just on display. Just copy it!

But in terms of the whole idea of being dumb, I am mainly talking about our bowlers.
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400 is a whole other beast batting second though, you HAVE to go full tilt from the start, because when you require 300 odd runs at 15 rpo, you basically have no chance.

I am with you on your feelings about the bowlers though.
 
smash84

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India have done well to bring the series to the last match, had earlier thought that SA might win 4 - 1, or at least will be 3-1 up by the end of the 4th match
 
Jono

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kykweer.proteas said:
400 is a whole other beast batting second though, you HAVE to go full tilt from the start, because when you require 300 odd runs at 15 rpo, you basically have no chance.

I am with you on your feelings about the bowlers though.
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That's a strawman. I didn't say let it get to 15 rpo. I said punish the bad balls and go at 6.5-7 early.

In terms of how to chase a big score, this game is a pretty good example - 1st ODI: India v Sri Lanka at Rajkot, Dec 15, 2009 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

Lanka didn't get across the line in the end because they choked but this was close to the way you go about chasing 400 in modern cricket imo. They were 0-50 after 7.2 overs, but got set.
 
Jono

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Smith talking about the 434 chase is glorious. What a man. What an innings.

He's now brought up the Ntini single. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
 
kykweer.proteas

kykweer.proteas

International Debutant
Jono said:
That's a strawman. I didn't say let it get to 15 rpo. I said punish the bad balls and go at 6.5-7 early.

In terms of how to chase a big score, this game is a pretty good example - 1st ODI: India v Sri Lanka at Rajkot, Dec 15, 2009 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

Lanka didn't get across the line in the end because they choked but this was close to the way you go about chasing 400 in modern cricket imo. They were 0-50 after 7.2 overs, but got set.
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There is only one over out of the first ten Lanka dis not score a boundary, they were going at about 7 rpo at that stage.

When Rohit got out India were going at a mere 5rpo.

Sure they do not have to start at 9 or 10 rpo, but should at least be going at a run a ball.
 
Contra

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losing both Rohit and Kohli really sucks for India, those are the two big century makers. Dhawan's clearly out of form even though he's a good player and Rahane is still very raw.
 
Jono

Jono

Virat Kohli (c)
kykweer.proteas said:
There is only one over out of the first ten Lanka dis not score a boundary, they were going at about 7 rpo at that stage.

When Rohit got out India were going at a mere 5rpo.

Sure they do not have to start at 9 or 10 rpo, but should at least be going at a run a ball.
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Yeah I get that, that is true. But I think charging and swinging blindly is unnecessary when the bowlers were giving you bad balls.
 
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