1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

[Flem274*]

i disagree. take the innings deep, and dont let chahal have a look at cdg for example. we have guys who can biff from ball 1, lets keep ticking until the 30th.

 

[Burner]

I wonder when people are going to stop believing the myth that a physio can cure an acute musculoskeletal injury by taping it/massaging it/stretching it/whatever.

They can do that fire massage thing as last resort though. It works, I saw it in a documentary about a young boy competing in a karate tournament.

 

[trundler]

Pitch pretty much nullifies the NZ seam attack

 

[Flem274*]

goal here should be a single every ball

 

[cnerd123]

Not writing NZ out of this yet. These two could easily lift the scoring rate once the spinners are off. Bumrah is gun but Bhuvi is hittable and we've still got 6 overs to bowl from an injured Pandya or Kohli/Dhoni

 

[Cabinet96]

Is this in England or Mumbai?

Must be England doctoring the conditions to hurt India again, like they did in the England-India group game.

 

[Bahnz]

Once again, we look stuck in 2nd gear. Desperately need something career defining from Ross.

 

[harsh.ag]

Is this in England or Mumbai?

The Manchester of the East in now Manchester.

 

[trundler]

I forced myself up for this but Jaddu having a go is putting me back to sleep

 

[Meridio]

We've ground to a halt again. Just letting the spinners bowl at us - we don't need to be trying to slog them, but we're paralysed here.

 

[straw man]

Think we can write off 285-300 here unless this pair can find a way of getting on top of the spinners. Ross is all jitters at the moment, needs a couple of boundaries to get settled. Also NZ's hitters haven't done that well against Bumrah and Bhuvi at the death previously.

Yeah Neesham/CDG/Santner vs India's good yorker bowlers is not a good match-up. So if we had a platform we'd want to accelerate more than usual overs 30-42 or so.

 

[CM Punk]

This is aimless batting, we're scoring nothing in these overs.

 

[Neil Young]

The commentators are all talking as if NZ are just there to make up the numbers.

 

[Athlai]

They don't even need to attack the spinners. Just need to actually hit more than 1 or 2 singles every over

 

[weldone]

i disagree. take the innings deep, and dont let chahal have a look at cdg for example. we have guys who can biff from ball 1, lets keep ticking until the 30th.

Latham is next though

 

[Jezroy]

i disagree. take the innings deep, and dont let chahal have a look at cdg for example. we have guys who can biff from ball 1, lets keep ticking until the 30th.

Pretty hard for them to get at these spinners at the moment. They’re really relying on attacking Hardik or whoever finishes his overs.

 

[Neil Young]

This is aimless batting, we're scoring nothing in these overs.

What do you think of the pitch? What's a good score in your view?

 

[CM Punk]

The commentators are all talking as if NZ are just there to make up the numbers.

Not like they're proving otherwise on the field.

 

[harsh.ag]

This is pretty ordinary batting tbh. There is only so much you can make up, even against 6 overs of a non-6th bowler 6th bowler.

 

[vandem]

We've ground to a halt again. Just letting the spinners bowl at us - we don't need to be trying to slog them, but we're paralysed here.

Promoting Latham to #4 would have interesting, good sweep shot, could tuck singles into the leg side with the spin.

Taylor starting to put scoreboard pressure on Kane.