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

[RossTaylorsBox]

Lol that Boult got better just because he looked at some TV replays.

 

[vcs]

Always looked a poor review.

 

[nzfan]

This is where I think all the things such as Virat's diet, fitness etc is just overrated and exaggerated by media and his fans. That has nothing to do with his run scoring. Fitness is required but being able to see the ball out of the hand no matter the state of the game is the most important. Steve Waugh or Rahul Dravid wouldn't be called gym bunnies but they performed under immense pressure. Slightly different for bowlers obviously, having less fat definitely helps bowl longer spells.

He's as fit as I've seen him but despite that he's getting out now consistently for not much isn't he? He's a gun bat no doubt and one of the very best and his skills are very good hence he gets lots of runs. Nature of cricket is such that you get out in many ways and if you play lots of games it usually catches up with you and you're bound to have some repeated failures at some point in time. Skills at the end of the day gets you out of the rut.

Vihari is looking like he's under massive pressure here, barely seeing the ball out of the hand.

 

[honestbharani]

TBH, Virat's drive for fitness is good coz he was a chubby guy earlier and seemed to have issues with concentration. He feels that he is able to concentrate better due to better fitness. It need not work for everyone but the fact that he is THAT committed to being the best is definitely praiseworthy AFAIC, failure in 1 test notwithstanding.

 

[nzfan]

In hindsight Virat should have played the warm up game and should have taken off from one day series if he really thought test cricket is important.

 

[honestbharani]

In hindsight Virat should have played the warm up game and should have taken off from one day series if he really thought test cricket is important.

This I agree with fully. The first innings was a definitely white ball shot.

EDIT: Think his hand was forced due to Rohit's injury. Else he would have sat out a couple of games I think.

 

[Gnske]

Have we already had three years of CDG in Test cricket? It feels like yesterday he made everyone taste it with that 6fer.

 

[nzfan]

If India bat out of their skins and the rest of the batting line up does their very best likely they will be able to score another couple of hundred runs or there and there abouts at the most. I think India is looking down the barrel here.

 

[honestbharani]

Going at 2 an over is not helping either, is it?

 

[Flem274*]

Last basin test between these sides the roles were reversed and we know how that ended.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Bring back the Jam man

 

[Athlai]

It turns out that it isn't just Smith who is weak to the short ball. I for one look forward to crickets next great bowling era of short pitched balls.

The age of Wagner is upon us

 

[nzfan]

Last basin test between these sides the roles were reversed and we know how that ended.

The SL test couple of years ago as well. I think we had near 300 runs lead but on the 4th day SL (Mendis and Matthews is it?) batted all day without losing a wicket. We've had some unbelievable batting exploits on this deck on day 4 and 5 last few years. That said from memory one of the days of that test match rained off. No rain predicted for the next two days, unlucky India.

 

[artvandalay]

Just no momentum to the innings. They keep missing out on half volleys on leg stump.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Good boring partnership. Hopefully this is another typical basin second innings recovery job.

 

[Daemon]

This is where I think all the things such as Virat's diet, fitness etc is just overrated and exaggerated by media and his fans. That has nothing to do with his run scoring. Fitness is required but being able to see the ball out of the hand no matter the state of the game is the most important. Steve Waugh or Rahul Dravid wouldn't be called gym bunnies but they performed under immense pressure. Slightly different for bowlers obviously, having less fat definitely helps bowl longer spells.

He's as fit as I've seen him but despite that he's getting out now consistently for not much isn't he? He's a gun bat no doubt and one of the very best and his skills are very good hence he gets lots of runs. Nature of cricket is such that you get out in many ways and if you play lots of games it usually catches up with you and you're bound to have some repeated failures at some point in time. Skills at the end of the day gets you out of the rut.

Vihari is looking like he's under massive pressure here, barely seeing the ball out of the hand.

He did turn vegan recently..

 

[jcas0167]

Was a great short ball from Jaimeson though. Quite a lack of imagination leaving him out for Sydney, though the wayvthat tour went may have been the best thing for him.

Yeah, in hindsight it seems hard to believe Henry played ahead of him. I guess Henry was officially next in line having played in Hamilton, but did they not think if they were going to leave out Southee they might as well go for a 6'8 guy who would offer something genuinely different to the attack?

 

[Kippax]

Well he apparently loved being on that Australian tour and got a huge psychological fillip out of it even though he didn't play, according to his dad.

 

[Kippax]

Basically a very nice way of saying "best not to get stuck in the prison that is New Zealand domestic cricket for too long. You've really got to crawl through that 500 yards of sewer pipe and get out of there".

 

[cnerd123]

Yea Jamiesen is quality.