***Official***Match #37- India vs South Africa - November 5th - Kolkata

[Kirkut]

Kohli: "Once we made 250, we knew it was a par score"

This guy does not rate SA batting at all...the audacity

 

[Owzat]

Man he is a terrible commentator.

I find live football games annoying when you can tell the commentator has prepared every stat under the sun, some worthwhile and some stupid as f, but at least they prepared! Would think they'd issue them with a simple list of highest World Cup scores and best bowling by country, biggest totals again by country, biggest margins, chases etc, wouldn't take long to return them and indeed update if broken

to be fair though Jadeja became the first Indian spinner to take 5wi at the 2023 World Cup, he just didn't add in the narrow down parameters!

 

[Owzat]

We knew that SA have these collapses in them. I suppose they just have to tell themselves they need two good games to win the WC.

it will now be deeply implanted in their heads this defeat, if India could have intentionally wiped the floor with them they would have, did it intentionally or otherwise

of course when it gets to knockouts only needs eg South Africa to bat first, De Kock to blaze a hundred and India to struggle for them to lose/go out, little or no pressure in leagues because you CAN afford to lose a game or two, and this was basically of little consequence to either side win or lose

 

[ma1978]

NGL.. The laser show, the lights from the cell phones and the Kolkata crowd, of all people, singing Vande Mataram, the original song was written by a Bengal poet, it does give some goosebumps.

eden gardens is the OG cricket venue, and Kolkata is amazing during Diwali

wishfinals were here

 

[Sunil1z]

eden gardens is the OG cricket venue, and Kolkata is amazing during Diwali

wishfinals were here

Well India will play their semi-finals here if Pakistan qualify

 

[centurymaker]

Kohli: "Once we made 250, we knew it was a par score"

This guy does not rate SA batting at all...the audacity

I think SA lost this game mentally first. They looked psyched out from the get go... Both bowling and batting...

It seems Indian team is carrying a bit of an aura playing like this at home. It might be getting to the opposition.... like how the Aus team used to have this invincibility about them. Teams are under pressure/psyched out

Think Australia is one team who could destroy all this and bring India back down to Earth or worse. They aren't going to be overwhelmed by anything. In fact they will try to put the pressure back on India at every opportunity they get.

 

[ma1978]

Ahmedabad has no cricket history, no right to host a final. Chennai and Bangalore also got robbed but that’s India for you; pretends the most civilised prosperous parts of the country don’t exist

 

[Shri]

gavaskar listening to shreyas talking about playing short balls:

 

[OverratedSanity]

Ahmedabad has no cricket history, no right to host a final. Chennai and Bangalore also got robbed but that’s India for you; pretends the most civilised prosperous parts of the country don’t exist

It's not that deep bro. Ahmedabad has a 100 million capacity stadium. It'd be dumb to have the final anywhere else.

 

[Sunil1z]

Ahmedabad has no cricket history, no right to host a final. Chennai and Bangalore also got robbed but that’s India for you; pretends the most civilised prosperous parts of the country don’t exist

130000 crowd capacity. Enough said .

 

[Shri]

the only thing standing between india and the trophy in my mind is travis head

mario mfer doesn't give a ****

 

[Adorable Asshole]

It's not that deep bro. Ahmedabad has a 100 million capacity stadium. It'd be dumb to have the final anywhere else.

Wow. We surely are making groundbreaking advances in technology.

 

[Sunil1z]

the only thing standing between india and the trophy in my mind is travis head

mario mfer doesn't give a ****

Then play Ashwin and drop Siraj.

 

[Window]

Well the PM is also from there, the current BCCI heads are from there, I’m sure that also plays a part, and why it was built there in the first place.

 

[Sunil1z]

Well the PM is also from there, the current BCCI heads are from there, I’m sure that also plays a part, and why it was built there in the first place.

Trump also visited the stadium

 

[Shri]

Then play Ashwin and drop Siraj.

no do not change a winning formula. i will start celebrating if head falls early in the final.

 

[Adorable Asshole]

Straya not going to the final.

 

[ma1978]

It's not that deep bro. Ahmedabad has a 100 million capacity stadium. It'd be dumb to have the final anywhere else.

Eden Gardens isn’t tiny

 

[Window]

Trump also visited the stadium

All the more reason to not have any games of importance there.

 

[Daemon]

Colossal blunder by India to bat first today. They’ve given SA much needed confidence that they can chase too.