***Official*** India in New Zealand 2020

[ankitj]

Ishant is injured. Umesh has not done much to get called up. Saini is perfectly alright but of course the thinktank feels Thakur's 15 (10) type of knocks make up for the pies he serves up.

Umesh can't be worse than Shardul surely?

 

[Moss]

Ishant is injured. Umesh has not done much to get called up. Saini is perfectly alright but of course the thinktank feels Thakur's 15 (10) type of knocks make up for the pies he serves up.

Chahar is also seen as an ODI option right? Though I'm guessing he's also not in the frame because of injury.

 

[honestbharani]

They see Shardul as a like for like for Chahar, who himself was a like for like for Bhuvi.

 

[ankitj]

Yes, Chahar is good in swinging conditions and is decent with yorkers and bouncers too iirc. Just lacks the pace. Shardul lacks all this.

 

[Moss]

Been a while since I've seen NZ have a 50-plus opening partnership playing risk-free cricket for the most part. Will have to start bringing out the big shots rather soon though.

 

[Daemon]

Yes, Chahar is good in swinging conditions and is decent with yorkers and bouncers too iirc. Just lacks the pace. Shardul lacks all this.

Shardul is very accurate at the death tbf. Always bowling length.

 

[vandem]

Still reckon they've should've gone for Will Young. Yeah he's been out with injury for a while, but he's hit 50's in his first two innings back. And he's a number 3 bat. Whose taken Mitch Starc and Pat Cummins apart. Just pick him already.

I assume the selectors have pencilled in Young as test opener against India, and want him to have 1 (or 2) more red ball innings for NZ A before the test series.

 

[honestbharani]

Shardul is very accurate at the death tbf. Always bowling length.

Very easy to set the field when you know the ball is anyways gonna go over the boundary.

 

[vcs]

You just know Thakur's gonna jam a few wickets at the end and make us all taste it lol

 

[honestbharani]

See what I mean? Gets Guppy.


@vcs: Gets them in the beginning this time

 

[vcs]

The dreaded Jadhav Thakur combination doing the job hahaha

 

[Moss]

Yeah fully expect Jadhav to weigh in with wickets as well. Guppy'll be cross with himself.

Interesting to see how Blundell goes, been given a decent platform.

 

[Moss]

Wow, MSD would've been pleased with the quickness of that stumping.

 

[googlyeyes]

Why tf isn't Seifert playing? Looks the goods.

 

[googlyeyes]

Also if you let India score 350 with Bumrah in the side, you are pretty much chasing 300 off 40 overs 9 times out of 10.

 

[Daemon]

Rahul actually looks really tidy behind the stumps. Better than Pant who's technique is honestly the worst I've seen in international cricket, even if he doesn't shell that many.

 

[Bahnz]

Bwahaha!

 

[Daemon]

Oh Kuldeep. Must really suck being a sub par fielder these days. Previously you'd blend right in but now..

 

[Daemon]

Get either Bumrah or Jadhav on now

 

[ankitj]

NZ going well. Looks like they are going for a heartbreaking loss rather than an easy loss