1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

[Neil Young]

Hope he's ok to bowl his ten.

 

[Spintolose]

He looks fine.

 

[straw man]

Hardik injury would be an unfortunate opportunity for Kohli to get an all time meme wicket of Williamson.

 

[sledger]

Not looking good for India so far

 

[OverratedSanity]

India are really really good, but it feels like they don’t have a lot of back up if things go wrong.

Obviously with the 5 bowlers AND THAT’S IT. If you can get after 2 of them, then what? They just bowl 20 overs for 160?

And the top 3 is great. But what if they fail? What if they’re 30/3? Something NZ fans can sympathise with, but they’ve got CDG and Neesh as we showed against Pakistan.

Hopefully NZ have thought of exposing those week areas.

Right on cue

 

[trundler]

Thankfully India won't have to worry about Pandya missing the final

 

[Jezroy]

Hope he's ok to bowl his ten.

Hope you’re Gambhiring

 

[Athlai]

Pandya looks buggered

 

[Prince EWS]

what happened?

Some sort of groin or thigh strain, he's limped off.

 

[Jezroy]

He looks fine.

Did you see him walk up the stairs?

Very limp Hardik.

He’s gonna need the good drugs.

 

[cnerd123]

Wonder if Kohli will try to squeeze in some jammy overs from himself/someone else now, or if he'll use the other bowlers and hope Pandya can come back in time to finish his quota.

 

[harsh.ag]

This is why you play Kedar Jadhav.

 

[Spintolose]

Looked great going up those stairs. I think perhaps he's just pooped a bit and needs a change.

 

[stephen]

First 8 overs were India's, 2nd 8 overs were NZs.

 

[weldone]

Some sort of groin or thigh strain, he's limped off.

He'll come back to bowl one ball later to find out he really can't - and then Kohli will bowl the remaining 5.5 in slog overs lol

 

[trundler]

That meme paddle sweep has dodged faith enough times I reckon

 

[cnerd123]

These two have milked Jadeja well btw. Not letting hm build a lot of pressure.

 

[Prince EWS]

This is why you play Kedar Jadhav.

Well that and the fact that he's a better batsman than two of wicket keepers playing anyway. But yes.

 

[Bahnz]

Would suck if Pandya can't bowl.

NZ at risk of going a bit quiet here. We need to keep building, not settle in for 4rpo up to the 35 over mark.

 

[Athlai]

Chahal that was truly woeful. Nicholls almost fell over trying to smash the **** out of it