ataraxia
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***Official***Semi-Final #1- India vs New Zealand - November 15th - Wankhede, Mumbai (D/N)
- Thread starter SillyCowCorner1
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Bahnz
Hall of Fame Member
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
Cricketer Of The Year
You really are a total moron.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
Yeah especially India.
Andy19
U19 12th Man
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...
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Andy19
U19 12th Man
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
International Regular
Hattori sounds better.
Daemon
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Lame. Ban him for plagiarism.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
That's the whole point of copypasta tbf.
So ur an aussie , thats what i was thinking a kiwi wouldnt write an aggressive post as u did earlier haha
Andy19
U19 12th Man
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.
Moss
International Captain
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.
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Moss
International Captain
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.
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.
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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.
They sure thrashed aussis in the first league game. Who cares about the past, current Indian team and form is way better than aussis.
Andy19
U19 12th Man
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.