***Official New Zealand in India Nov-Dec 2021 Thread***

[nzfan]

Gonna be a lot of talk about picking 3 seamers now of course, but would you have had KJ batting 7 then? Or only picked Ajaz and Rachin as spinners? #belatedteamchat

In hindsight, Wagner for Sommerville. Just because if we don't have Rachin our tail would have been quite long.

 

[nzfan]

Somerville is definitely creating half chances vs Jadeja

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Rosco offies when

 

[Moss]

Gonna be a lot of talk about picking 3 seamers now of course, but would you have had KJ batting 7 then? Or only picked Ajaz and Rachin as spinners? #belatedteamchat

Think the consensus has been Ajaz and Rachin, Wagner for Somerville. Though the latter has bowled alright.

Both these spinners (ajaz & Sommers) took some time to settle in previous series as well so probably shouldn't be written off just yet

 

[Athlai]

Is anyone else distracted by the sparkle of Shreyas earring?

 

[Moss]

Iyer loves murdering spin. Definitely acing the battle of the debutants now.

 

[trundler]

Iyer is a gigachad

 

[nzfan]

I feel wicket coming... Iyer slogging literally

 

[Athlai]

Iyer is a gigachad

 

[White Ball]

India in a decent position here! As a white ball fan I love how Iyer is playing want to see him keep up this positivity. Hoping to see a few maximums in this session ideally.

 

[thierry henry]

I feel wicket coming... Iyer slogging literally

Yeah Ravindra is basically bowling well and Iyer is miss-hitting slogs to great effect. Modern cricket is ****.

 

[Moss]

Southee is back. Interesting, didn't seem like he was moving all that well.

 

[thierry henry]

Southee ain’t well

 

[Apex Predator]

India is in a decent position. Pitch is not that great for stroke play so runs are hard to come. 300 will be match winning I think.

 

[nzfan]

Would have saved Southee for the new ball. Could have let Iyer slog couple more and eventually his luck would have ran out.

Iyer played **** shots and got away. I don't know what commentators saying about that batting.

 

[thierry henry]

Yeah Jadeja’s 3 x 300s is one of the great ‘forgotten’ stats

 

[Athlai]

I've never seen a 7 - 8 - 9 of bigger downhill skiers than this Indian team

 

[Athlai]

Would have saved Southee for the new ball. Could have let Iyer slog couple more and eventually his luck would have ran out.

Iyer played **** shots and got away. I don't know what commentators saying about that batting.

Mate the new ball will be in like an hour

 

[nzfan]

More we bowl to Iyer, higher our chance of wicket. Jadeja is worrying me, he's batting like a proper test bat. Bring on Ajaz...

 

[Moss]

Gonna be a lot of talk about picking 3 seamers now of course, but would you have had KJ batting 7 then? Or only picked Ajaz and Rachin as spinners? #belatedteamchat

Though there's a long way to go, this has the feel of Perth 2019 when Ferguson pulled up after 11 overs. Southee, Wagner and CdG picked up the slack then, Santner from memory didn't do much.

Did predict there would be times when Kane would miss Colin's bowling, this seems like one of them. Mitchell definitely not a like-for-like replacement.