*Official* West Indies Tour of India 2018

[Bahseph]

Kohli is unbelievable.

 

[OverratedSanity]

A big ton in the next game too will probably get Kohli's average to 60.

 

[OverratedSanity]

13 runs away from 10,000 in ODIs. Surreal.

He's gone from 9000 to 10000 in 12 innings

 

[morgieb]

Is Kohli’s peak the best since Bradman? Has been nigh on scary for about 3 years now.

 

[vcs]

Woof, I'd completely forgotten about this game.

WI look to have things pretty much under control, judging by the scorecard? Is this one less of a billiards table than the previous track?

 

[Starfighter]

Holder really does manage some spectacularly bad performances in ODIs every now and then.

 

[vcs]

100 up.

What a ludicrous conversion rate this bloke's got.

 

[ankitj]

Samuels to Kohli, FOUR runs, creams it to the cover boundary and celebrates back-to-back hundreds - he's done that seven times over his career now! That's 14 ODI hundreds. For context, Rahul Dravid only ever made 12 in all the time he played for India. Overall, it's century no. 37. It's also century no. 30 at No. 3 - taking him past another bonafide legend - Ricky Ponting. His celebration was pretty cool too - pointed at his bat and made the hand-signal for 'talking'. Bat doing the talking.

Wow!

 

[OverratedSanity]

Guy is a machine. Unbelievable that his already laughably good ODI numbers somehow keep improving.

The score kind of feels under par though? Pitch seems a little slower than the previous one but 260 with only 5 overs left isn't a huge total.

 

[ankitj]

Can we just stop picking Jadeja in ODIs? It depresses me every time.

 

[trundler]

Wtf Virat.

 

[trundler]

How is this even possible? He plays such ridiculous shots and makes batting look so easy. The kind of strokes I'd dream up in my fantasies. And he's so textbook. It's baffling.

 

[vcs]

I think ODIs are basically a computer game in easy mode for him now. Especially at home, against WI's attack? No chance.

 

[OverratedSanity]

That six over cover was outrageous.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sucks so much that we have no one capable of hitting sixes down the order. Hardik can't come back sooner.

 

[vcs]

Anyway, this could be a close match. WI have the batting firepower as they showed in the last game, remains to be seen if they've got the temperament to manage a 300+ chase as well.

 

[ankitj]

Kohli is sheet anchor, finisher, end over slogger all rolled into one.

 

[Shri]

Sucks so much that we have no one capable of hitting sixes down the order. Hardik can't come back sooner.

If everyone's fit:

Rohit
Dhawan
Kohli
Dhoni
Rayudu/Jadhav
Pant
Pandya
Bhuvi / Shami
Kuldeep
Bumrah
Chahal

 

[Arachnodouche]

I think ODIs are basically a computer game in easy mode for him now. Especially at home, against WI's attack? No chance.

Some losers on cricinfo still defending Tendulkar in the face of this psycho spree. Kohli is the greatest ODI batsman ever. It isn't even close anymore, whichever way you want to cut it.

 

[Beamer]

Anyway, this could be a close match. WI have the batting firepower as they showed in the last game, remains to be seen if they've got the temperament to manage a 300+ chase as well.

Unfortunately we don't have the temperament to chase anything let alone 322. I also think that pitch was reasonably helpful for spinners and both Nurse and Bishoo were too ordinary to exploit it properly. Let's see though.

I actually thought we bowled alright today, I was impressed with Mccoy, I think he has the skills to be an excellent modern ODI bowler. It's just that Kohli was too good. In many ways today was a better innings in my opinion as he was actually challenged. He had to dig in rather than just effortlessly score runs.

Holder had another poor outing in the field. He is as bad at ODIs as he is good at tests. Bowling got carted, dropped an absolute sitter that cost us almost 100 runs (Kohli of all people) and generally returned to defensive mode after a promising start. Shame.