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

[wellAlbidarned]

Sure pull out all the conspiracy theories.
Didn't think kiwis will give up so early

you've failed the iq test

 

[White Ball]

I am a bit anxious about this match it looks a good deck I was hoping we would have started scoring at 10 an over from the get go, but already we are dipping to 9.57.

 

[Andyhere]

What's up all the wides? Rattled?

 

[The Hutt Rec]

This is woeful bowling tbh, so much leg side crap early on. We're also not managing the game well - it's not a bad idea to give Rohit an easy single and bowl at Gill for a bit, but he's dominating the strike instead

Rohit isn't hitting many singles though.

 

[ataraxia]

That can't have been too far from run out tbh

 

[_Ed_]

Better from Boult.

Now that I've said that, he'll probably finish this over with a couple of half-trackers that get belted into the upper deck.

 

[Bahnz]

Boult's been bowling with pretty good pace here. Too bad his radar's gone missing.

 

[Zinzan]

This is woeful bowling tbh, so much leg side crap early on. We're also not managing the game well - it's not a bad idea to give Rohit an easy single and bowl at Gill for a bit, but he's dominating the strike instead

Yep, and clearly pace off's the way to go on a road like this with short boundaries.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

Sodhi hasn't been treated well in this WC

 

[Test fan]

Good over by boult .
IND 61/0 (7 over)

 

[Andyhere]

Sodhi hasn't been treated well in this WC

Yes he was, Pakistan treated him really well.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

this is probably one of those pitches where the new ball comes on nicely but once the ball gets soft it sticks in the pitch

 

[Athlai]

By my calculations the next over should go for minus 5 runs

 

[Moss]

Rohit isn't hitting many singles though.

When the batsman’s in this mood should probably consider pace off. If you don’t get him to mistime one, you stand a chance of getting him off strike.

As with the Fakhar innings, NZ seem slow to react.

 

[Howsie]

But serious what’s up with playing a semi on a used deck?

 

[straw man]

Boult's pretty clearly trying to bowl very straight to Rohit, which is probably fair tbh even if he strays down leg sometimes. Knows that Rohit will thrash any width through the offside.

 

[srbhkshk]

NZ might have missed a trick here by not playing Jamieson (is he fit?) , he might not be as great in LOIs but does have a bit of hold over the India batsman.

 

[Meridio]

Rohit isn't hitting many singles though.

You can set a field and bowl a ball to suit that though

 

[Moss]

But serious what’s up with playing a semi on a used deck?

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[Kenneth Viljoen]

Credit to Rohit , he's probably reflected on all those lost knockout games he's played in and identified that an aggressive opener was missing in the partnerships he had with Dhawan and Rahul, and has made the necessary adjustments. Sign of a great leader