***Official*** New Zealand in India 2016

[Furball]

Bit unfair that India get such an easy series to warm up for England.

 

[Shri]

Haha yep. Run up, action and trajectory very similar but nothing else. Jadeja varies lots of things, is very accurate and has the advantage of being left handed.



Hey guys I wonder where Ashwin comes from? Is it Tamil Nadu?

But on a more serious note, you're right and I did acknowledge that later iirc. He was bowling all over the place before he finally settled down and it was probably just a bit of a coincidence that the rough came into play towards the end of the day when he really got into his groove.

But at the same time I was still disappointed that he was manipulated so easily by the lefty righty combo and KW especially. They definitely contributed to him bowling a bit poorly first up along with everything else mentioned.

Or maybe he always takes a bit of time to settle down against new players he's bowling to? Now I am going to go check how he did in every first innings of every series.

 

[Daemon]

Bit unfair that India get such an easy series to warm up for England.

You're playing Bangladesh ffs

 

[Daemon]

Or maybe he always takes a bit of time to settle down against new players he's bowling to? Now I am going to go check how he did in every first innings of every series.

Remember to exclude Australia in India because Ashwin could be bowling soccer balls at them and they'd still **** themselves

 

[OverratedSanity]

Pujara reminding me of this innings of his(72) right now:

2nd Test: India v Australia at Bangalore, Oct 9-13, 2010 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

Gem of an innings. Got a terrible grubber in the first innings too.

 

[Chrish]

Slept when kiwis were at 156-1

Now just woke up and... wtf was that?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Vijay, Pujara, Ashwin and Jadeja delivering big. Just another home test.

 

[mr_mister]

Slept when kiwis were at 156-1

Now just woke up and... wtf was that?

that's a long sleep lol

 

[Daemon]

Who look like the top 5 players in turning conditions now?

KW
Younis
Misbah
Pujara
Vijay

AB not far off surely. Cook probably should be in there as well.

 

[Chrish]

that's a long sleep lol

Work day man..

 

[cnerd123]

You're playing Bangladesh ffs

I mean, given England's performances away from home recently you can understand why Furball views that as a tougher challenge than us playing NZ at home.

 

[Adders]

.

 

[cnerd123]

Ashwin, Jadeja, Vijay and Pujara have scored 67.7% of India's runs in this Test so far, and bowled 71.9% of the over in the first innings for 9 wickets at just under 20 runs a piece. They also have 1/3rd of the catches.

We're basically a 4-man team atm.

 

[NZTailender]

So India has reached the stage of the innings where both sides decided to fall apart (1 for 150 odd).

Looking forward to day 4 when I figure out how a clock works.

 

[Gnske]

Who look like the top 5 players in turning conditions now?

KW
Younis
Misbah
Pujara
Vijay

AB not far off surely. Cook probably should be in there as well.

Cook definitely, not AB after some of his work during his last tour to India.

 

[Burgey]

Disagree totally. NZ had some good luck yesterday, plenty of balls beat the bat but only 1 wicket. Had some bad luck today in 5 of the 9 wickets. Happens sometimes.

You could argue that Santner should have pushed a few more singles to disrupt the spinnner's rhythm and Craig's defense technique was a disgrace, but not sure how else we could have scored much more than 300 today.

Edit, could also argue that Ronchi sweeping a ball pitching in line wasn't clever, was asking the ump to make a decision if he missed and the ump could decide that it was an arm ball.

Yeah look mate, it's probably obvious you haven't played a lot of cricket if you think how a side bats day two is relevant to whether they were lucky to get through day one without losing more wickets. They lost 5/8 or something. It's unacceptable at any level.

 

[Daemon]

Cook definitely, not AB after some of his work during his last tour to India.

Eh? I'm including AB because of some of his work in that tour

 

[Shri]

Joe Root played one innings back in 2012 in the last test and looked solid. Wouldn't be surprised to see him do well in the upcoming series.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Cook definitely, not AB after some of his work during his last tour to India.

AB was the best player on that tour you dunce.

But yes, Cook is a lock.

 

[Furball]

Cook definitely, not AB after some of his work during his last tour to India.

Are you confusing de Villiers with Faf?