1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

[Uppercut]

Haha, this is such a hindsighty thing to say. They were 130 rins away from the target before the partnership. At that stage you try as best as you can to get close to the target. Dhoni gets out anywhere before at least they get 20 runs within the target and the game is done.

I don't think you can call it "hindsighty" given that literally everyone in the thread was saying it at the time.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Haha, this is such a hindsighty thing to say. They were 130 rins away from the target before the partnership. At that stage you try as best as you can to get close to the target. Dhoni gets out anywhere before at least they get 20 runs within the target and the game is done.

He was leaving balls outside off in the 46th over ffs

 

[Shri]

I dont know about KulCha anymore. Maybe theyll be good in India for 2023, but Shami was far too good to be sacrificed.

I mean they are two leggies and we dropped one the moment they got clobbered. Should have backed them more.

 

[akilana]

Nah he was so poor at rotating strike back to Jadeja in the lead up to the 46th over is what left them with far too much to do which is criminal when he can't hit boundaries anymore.

Given his short comings, what else could he have done. Go hard from first ball and score 20 off 10? Batting is about partnership and they were still in it till Jadeja got out.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Any backtracking on Ross' innings? Looking pretty good in hindsight.

Will end up going down as one of our most crucial ODI knocks.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I mean they are two leggies and we dropped one the moment they got clobbered. Should have backed them more.

Backed them virtually throughout the WC even though neither of them were particularly great.

It was a tough tournament for spinners, so its probably harsh, but they got enough chances imo. I definitely wouldnt have both in the team anymore.

 

[Cabinet96]

Reserve days should be standard in all WC games and should be used before DLS.

Cricket's handling of rain is an embarrassment to the sport that we all kind of stop noticing because we're used to it. When you find yourself trying to defend it to fans of other sports you realise how tinpot it is.

Hah, this exact thing has been a real epiphany to me this World Cup.

 

[Bijed]

***** has actually changed his avatar. If that isn't a testament to Jadeja’s innings, I don't know what is

 

[aussie tragic]

Just back to say hahahahahahaha

 

[OverratedSanity]

Any backtracking on Ross' innings? Looking pretty good in hindsight.

Yep Ross and KW were both superb.

 

[Burner]

I don't think you can call it "hindsighty" given that literally everyone in the thread was saying it at the time.

People were saying it at the 46th over which I agree with. tbf I've posted about how Dhoni can no longer rotate strike. It's just that this match he made as well as he could.

 

[Groundking]

Haha, this is such a hindsighty thing to say. They were 130 rins away from the target before the partnership. At that stage you try as best as you can to get close to the target. Dhoni gets out anywhere before at least they get 20 runs within the target and the game is done.

No it's not, it was obivous as **** whilst the game was going on that Dhoni was digging them a grave, you're just too blind to see it, you're never going to be able to chase down the total when you're going into the last 10 needing 10 an over with a rate that was only going one way.

 

[Burner]

No it's not, it was obivous as **** whilst the game was going on that Dhoni was digging them a grave, you're just too blind to see it, you're never going to be able to chase down the total when you're going into the last 10 needing 10 an over with a rate that was only going one way.

Yet they maintained that 10 an over NRR until the 46th over? And came close to winning the match?

 

[Groundking]

Given his short comings, what else could he have done. Go hard from first ball and score 20 off 10? Batting is about partnership and they were still in it till Jadeja got out.

They were so far behind the a-ball he needed to take some risks at least to balance the pressure back towards NZ, Jadeja's shot was nothing more than a pressure shot brought about because of how slow Dhoni had been going.

 

[Shri]

No it's not, it was obivous as **** whilst the game was going on that Dhoni was digging them a grave, you're just too blind to see it, you're never going to be able to chase down the total when you're going into the last 10 needing 10 an over with a rate that was only going one way.

dude you saw what happened after he got out yeah

that **** would have simply happened in the 35th over instead of the 49th if he did what you are saying

he shouldn't have played in the first place but this was nothing like the eng game. that was an impossible chase after the 10th over and this one wasn't he was beginning to hit big shots and would have probably won us the game if he didn't get runout

 

[Uppercut]

Hah, this exact thing has been a real epiphany to me this World Cup.

Yeah I was going to make a thread about it but then didn't bother.

It played a part in my going off cricket back in the day. It was that Ashes game where England clinched the trophy because they saw that it was raining and started tying their shoelaces after every delivery. And Australia just accepted it, like yeah fine we'd have done the same. Honestly it made me feel pathetic for being invested in it.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Ahhh won't be able to sleep for a while after all that. What a match ... Kane's captaincy was pretty much perfect, I dunno where this has been, but he nailed it on his biggest stage. Bowlers amazing. Don't care who we play in the final, we will battle our way through and take it out this time.

I've gone fully Team Stead. Coaching genius!!!

Having been there in 2015 will surely help us though ... I think the experience might just get us home.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Hot take: the remainder of our innings set the tone of the day. We could've been rolled for 220 with Bumrah but 7 an over from the last 4 was pretty crucial I reckon.

 

[Burner]

dude you saw what happened after he got out yeah

that **** would have simply happened in the 35th over instead of the 49th if he did what you are saying

he shouldn't have played in the first place but this was nothing like the eng game. that was an impossible chase after the 10th over and this one wasn't he was beginning to hit big shots and would have probably won us the game if he didn't get runout

I think India still would have lost even if Dhoni wasn't run out. He's not the striker he once was but my point is that realizing these shortcomings, he still made the punt at the best shot India had which was if he played the way he played.

 

[Groundking]

dude you saw what happened after he got out yeah

that **** would have simply happened in the 35th over instead of the 49th if he did what you are saying

he shouldn't have played in the first place but this was nothing like the eng game. that was an impossible chase after the 10th over and this one wasn't he was beginning to hit big shots and would have probably won us the game if he didn't get runout

No chance.

The thing is his knock would have been fine if he had come in when it was 5-3, but you can't play that kind of knock coming in at 7 with the RR what it was.