***Official***Semi-Final #1- India vs New Zealand - November 15th - Wankhede, Mumbai (D/N)

[ataraxia]

New Zealand will beat India for 2nd Consecutive world cup the Roman india empire has fallen unfortunately.

Regardless Australia will beat India in the final.

Home track bully's India can't win major outside India or even in India.

India-to-word percentage: 15.8%

 

[Bahnz]

**** New zealand

No God please no. Nooooo. Why the **** is it that whenever we are playing the semi finals we always have to face these ****s why the **** is it always this bunch of god awful people. Idgaf if they're nice, as far as my experience has been these ****s aren't nice in the slightest, they literally might be the worst assembly of 11 people on this earth I've ever seen.

I mean wtf is up with Kane, you've got an acl tear then a fracture read the signs mate, why wont he just give up and go home. Why the **** is it always him that we have to face be it t20 eliminations be it odi eliminations be it WTC finals.

and wtf is up with Rachin, we never kidnapped a baby from Newzealand and named him after Sir Richard haddlee and Dan VETTORI and then making him our opening bowler. Wtf is that.

And Daryl Mitchell can go **** himself, he can't even grow hair which is something even I can do what's he doing playing international cricket.

And Trent Boult ohhh Trent boult, with a face and a body like that he could've been a stripper or even better a male prostitute , ngl I would have paid to have him grind me. But no this **** choses to grind our top order.

Mitchell Santner is the most Nerdist looking Mother****er I've ever seen, He's the kind of gut who probably names his bats and had conversations with them,I hope he gets shoved into the locker by Kohli.

I hope Pakistan defeat England by 1500 runs because I swear to god if I've to see India face this god awful team in the semi finals again, I'm going to lose my Mental Lucidity

I'm really looking forward to watching Daniard tear batting lineups apart with his 90mph left arm off cutters. It'll be like Mustafizur except less disappointing.

 

[Adders]

New Zealand will beat India for 2nd Consecutive world cup the Roman india empire has fallen unfortunately.

Regardless Australia will beat India in the final.

Home track bully's India can't win major outside India or even in India.

You really are a total moron.

 

[Prince EWS]

New Zealand will beat India for 2nd Consecutive world cup the Roman india empire has fallen unfortunately.

Regardless Australia will beat India in the final.

Home track bully's India can't win major outside India or even in India.

Yeah especially India.

 

[Andy19]

If NZ beats India in the semis, why will India get to play in the final?

Regardless meaning if I'm wrong and India beat new Zealand us Aussies will just beat India in the final anyway.

Do you always ask silly questions...

 

[Andy19]

Amazing post. He's picking New Zealand to beat India, then India to somehow make the final. After the fiasco of the 2019 final, imagine how aggrieved we'll feel when that happens.

Then he says India are home track bullies who can't win major tournaments even in India, even though they won the last World Cup that was held in India.

2011 world cup was while ago and India should lost twice already in this Tournament.

Already answered your 1st comment with my other reply.

 

[Adorable Asshole]

Love this, and been working on potential names......

Richori
Danard
Vett Lee (Brother of Brett)

Hattori sounds better.

 

[Daemon]

Think that was stolen/copypastad off Reddit wasn't it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CricketCopyPastas/comments/17rf85l

Lame. Ban him for plagiarism.

 

[Prince EWS]

Lame. Ban him for plagiarism.

That's the whole point of copypasta tbf.

 

[Punk01]

Regardless meaning if I'm wrong and India beat new Zealand us Aussies will just beat India in the final anyway.

Do you always ask silly questions...

So ur an aussie , thats what i was thinking a kiwi wouldnt write an aggressive post as u did earlier haha

 

[Andy19]

So ur an aussie , thats what i was thinking a kiwi wouldnt write an aggressive post as u did earlier haha

Listen India haven't won world cup Tournament since 2011!. they have sucked in major competitions even poms are better.

Australia are kings in world cups and the Goats of major Tournaments overall.

 

[Heboric]

Spider sense tingling. I smell halba all over the previous post

 

[Moss]

As most Kiwi's will probably be reading this thread, would just like to say I had the pleasure of catching up last night with avid Blackcap's fan @Moss
What an absolute top notch dude he is, and hopefully it's the start of a lifelong friendship.
Unfortunately he's snowed under with work at the moment and wasn't able to join me at the game today, which I know really hurt him, but I was able
to buy his ticket from him so guess it kind of worked out well for both of us. Will be catching up again with him soon.

Cheers, was a pleasure catching up! Yes work has been getting in the way of things (only just realized this thread had been created), but really glad rain stayed away that day and you got to watch NZ seal the deal. Here's hoping more meetups with CW members happen.

 

[Moss]

Couple of initial thoughts leading into the game (of course, there will be much more to follow in the build up!). The two possible weaknesses India have going into this game are: 1) get past Jadeja at no.7 and you're into a longish tail, and 2) the fact that no one in the top 6 bowls decent part time - if one of the bowlers has an off day, or worse, gets injured out, who will pick up the slack (was pretty surprised that IND decided to index on pace by bringing Prasidh into the squad when Pandya got injured).

Like in 2019 the specialists have been extremely good up to this point, and a number of Indian fans may worry about Murphy's law kicking in like it did in *that* semifinal, but the issue of any of this going wrong is a lot less of a concern than the problem of the unsettled middle order in 2019 IMO.

Intersestingly, the side which came closest to exploiting the above in the league stage was NZ - when bowling they had India five down with 80-odd to win, and when batting Mitchell was thinking on exactly the above lines when he targeted Kuldeep and took him apart. NZ didn't quite have the right ideas or execution IMO to separate Kohli and Jadeja, and on the Kuldeep issue Rohit I thought showed great leadership in refusing to panic and ensuring that his weakest bowler on the day could still come back strongly. In the end there was no need to look beyond the five bowlers. So, NZ know it *can* be done, but there's also a feeling that they fired their shots already that game and didn't come away with the win, and India may not give them those chances again. If anything, that was more a missed opportunity than the Australia game at Dharamsala.

 

[Xix2565]

was pretty surprised that IND decided to index on pace by bringing Prasidh into the squad when Pandya got injured

Shouldn't be considering that Shami himself was a backup for one of Bumrah/Siraj. Now they've picked Prasidh to cover for any one of them.

 

[Andyhere]

Listen India haven't won world cup Tournament since 2011!. they have sucked in major competitions even poms are better.

Australia are kings in world cups and the Goats of major Tournaments overall.

They sure thrashed aussis in the first league game. Who cares about the past, current Indian team and form is way better than aussis.

 

[Gob]

Cage fight between the two Andys with the winner to be eliminated is exactly what CW needs right now

 

[ataraxia]

Cage fight between the two Andys with the winner to be eliminated is exactly what CW needs right now

Omg I didn't even realise there were two of them

 

[Andy19]

They sure thrashed aussis in the first league game. Who cares about the past, current Indian team and form is way better than aussis.

It's not the 1st time India have looked Amazing in the group stages. India have done this in the past 7 world cups only to fall like the Roman Empire, in the Knockout rounds mostly.

^All 7 times-
2012 T20 WC India failed to pass the group stage

2014 T20 WC India won 5 Consecutive matches before losing to Sri Lanka in the final!

2015 ODI WC India lost to Australia in the semis after 7 Consecutive wins!

2016 T20 WC India lost to West Indies in the semi finals after going 3-1 in the group stages

2019 ODI WC India lost to New Zealand in the semi finals after having 7-1 group stage record.

2021 T20 WC India failed to pass the group stage but still had good winning record of 3-2

2022 T20 WC India lost to England poms! In the semi finals after 4-1 Group stage.

 

[Adders]

Jeez, battle of CW's finest going toe to toe here.