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

[honestbharani]

Mitchell's knock was sublime.

Kane's was scratchy and lucky af but he showed great composure and brought out vintage good shots now and then as well.

If you guys had other guys who could bat than your top 4, you would be doing better.

Excellent fight and an excellent game.

 

[Sunil1z]

Does anyone else felt KL Rahul is excellent for making DRS related decisions?

 

[Owzat]

Their cricket team is quite decent considering the small pool of players they have. If cricket was as popular in England as football is, the English cricket team would be like the US basketball team.

I could buy "small pool of players" if there weren't 18 first class counties and excluding players at the World Cup, could argue the "pick of the crop", 27 I think it was players have played ODIs 2021 to 2023 I think I said in another thread - nearly three teams' worth of players

I'd argue if anything the pool is large but not particularly deep

England prosper in no small part as it's a fairly elite Test set clique, is there another Test nation with a bigger pool of players? (India?)

 

[Bahnz]

Well done India, the most insanely dominant world cup side ever. Now don't **** it up.

 

[Adorable Asshole]

Does anyone else felt KL Rahul is excellent for making DRS related decisions?

Also an excellent actor

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Does anyone else felt KL Rahul is excellent for making DRS related decisions?

Yes, I have observed this as well.

 

[Owzat]

I get your point but I can't see India changing a winning formula.

best time to make changes is before a winning formula stops working. batting is a bit thin down the order, IF their final opponents make early inroads could need a bit more substance down the order

and I'd suggest they got to play kiwis, and even if they didn't, chances are the bowling attack they'll face in the final will pose more threat

 

[NZTailender]

Didn't watch a single ball tbh (so blame me? idk) but well done India. Hope you take out the final.

Tim Southee 3/100. Just retire from the format, geeze.

 

[Neil Young]

Most important key to success in sports is passion and strong leadership . Money can help sustain structures but first there needs to be a love of the game. Genetics within your environment also play a big role in the success of sports.

I wish this was true. But it's just not. Yes, there are outliers but, in general, the more money you put into a sport, the better your results will be. Unfortunately.

 

[Neil Young]

Does anyone else felt KL Rahul is excellent for making DRS related decisions?

That decision not to review Mitchell's sweep was sublime.

 

[King Kane]

The most remarkable thing is how unremarkable his domestic record was before his selection. If memory serves he averaged high 30's in both formats. Dude found a way to turn himself into a genuinely great bat out of nowhere.

Steve Smith was similar, he started off in the Aussie team as a leg spinning all rounder and then transformed himself into one of their best batsmen.

When Mitchell started off in the NZ team I thought he was just another one of our bits and pieces all rounders. never picked him to be a great batsman.

 

[Neil Young]

Mitchell's knock was sublime.

Kane's was scratchy and lucky af but he showed great composure and brought out vintage good shots now and then as well.

If you guys had other guys who could bat than your top 4, you would be doing better.

Excellent fight and an excellent game.

Yeah, we did suffer because of this. Latham was obviously a walking wicket but I was disappointed with the output from both Phillips and Chapman. They both had their chances throughout but didn't produce.

Phillips, I think, will go on to be a very good int'l batsman. I had high hopes for Chapman, but I now don't think he's up to it at the top level. Latham should also should play no further ODI cricket.

I won't hold my breath, though. We have chumps in charge, who don't make changes by choice. They lucked into playing Ravindra, after all.

 

[centurymaker]

Ahmedabad has proper dew at night.

NZ chased Eng's 280+ total in like 35 overs and even in the Afg-SA game chasing seemed fine with help of dew, so I think if it's Ind v Aus, India could just chase..

 

[ankitj]

 

[King Kane]

I hope India win the final, that would be easier to stomach than seeing Australia win another one and SA beat us in the Rugby WC so they can GAGF too

 

[Sunil1z]

Today’s match between IND vs NZ had live concurrent viewership of 52 million which is a World Record for Cricket or any sports (??)

To people who are new to broadcasting numbers, concurrent viewers = number of viewers watching any event at a particular instant and is different from cumulative viewership.
I feel cumulative viewership = 150 million atleast on Digital media for today’s match.

 

[Skyliner]

Such a shame Latham was allowed to go to the tournament and stink up the joint. Playing him was a waste of a spot, unforgivable when you are only playing four specialist bowlers.

 

[SteveNZ]

The most remarkable thing is how unremarkable his domestic record was before his selection. If memory serves he averaged high 30's in both formats. Dude found a way to turn himself into a genuinely great bat out of nowhere.

Absolutely. That shows that selection is a very nuanced thing, that you and I can't sit at a ground or watch a scorecard or a feed and necessarily get right. He's clearly one of those personalities that just gets better as the standard goes higher.

 

[SteveNZ]

Such a shame Latham was allowed to go to the tournament and stink up the joint. Playing him was a waste of a spot, unforgivable when you are only playing four specialist bowlers.

To me, the biggest failure in this sense was the fact they were unwilling to float him away from 5 enough. They did do it against Pakistan and Sri Lanka, but didn't against Australia and this game in similar situations. I know there were 17 overs to go today but Tom Latham isn't your guy. They were never going to drop him for Blundell at this point, but they could have been consistent with floating him down

 

[SteveNZ]

I wasn't swearing for no reason, even Iyer slowed down a bit at the end but less than VK & did tonk quite a few after he went past his ton!

Yeah, I think it was the ball after Kohli wiped one across the line off Southee then hit a four in similar style two balls later (edit, it was Ferguson). He was 90 off 92, and got his ton off 106. So it took him 14 balls to get 10 runs, which he did in eight singles then a two, around the 40th over with one down.

I don't want that to detract from the fact he's clearly the greatest ODI player of all time. I just don't personally like people who stall and value milestones over team.