*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

[SillyCowCorner1]

Bloke has scored half his runs behind point on the offside yet they've - and especially O'Rourke - decided the best plan is to bang it in short and wide. Bizarre

It’s really simple, bowl it close to his body and the chance of making the mistake increases

 

[SteveNZ]

Interestingly enough, seems NZ were gonna bat first too had they won the toss.

Absolutely, that's why I'm saying amongst the other stuff (obviously our catching isn't luck) that we need to capitalise on all the good fortune.

Letting one guy score half of his almost 100 runs through the third man region doesn't strike me as a positive contributor to doing so

 

[Days of Grace]

India's match. This match will go down as a great legacy of the Stead era.

 

[Silver Silva]

Sarfraz is playing a gem of an innings there is no way India can drop him after this knock

 

[Moss]

leaking way too many runs. Stick to what’s worked for you please.

 

[Spark]

It’s really simple, bowl it close to his body and the chance of making the mistake increases

Pitch the damn thing up and make him drive! How many runs has he scored between mid-off and cover?

 

[King Kane]

Sarfaraz is trolling our bowlers and slips fielders with some of these shots, we aren't helping ourselves though by giving him too much width outside off.

 

[thundaboult]

Ridiculous bowling and strategy here overall. Cmmon bowlers and tommy latham

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Especially first thing in the morning when there's been rain around all week - if it's going to do anything off the seam it will be early on, so why not attack the top of off stump to start with?

Sometimes going back to the basics is hard. It’s really simple as to what the plan is for the bowling team.

 

[SteveNZ]

I can't describe how stupid this is to Sarfaraz. They genuinely appear convinced that his cut shot is his weakness and look absolutely baffled that he keeps hitting it for four.

They seem to be operating on some sort of 'strength can be your weakness' sort of plan, which has spectacularly failed.

 

[Spark]

Wow look Southee is bowling normally and suddenly Sarfaraz is no longer hitting every other ball for four behind point.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Simon Doull be sucking dong in the comm box

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Dumb cricket all around

 

[Spark]

Wtf was that

 

[SteveNZ]

****'s sakes

 

[Spark]

What the **** is Blundell doing?

 

[SteveNZ]

Nah, Smithy's got that wrong (although someone might have said bowler's). That is a poor throw by Conway. That was miles wide of the stumps and still would have required an underarm at the stumps

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Comedy of errors, as they would say.

This is just another day for Pakistan

 

[Spark]

Nah, Smithy's got that wrong (although someone might have said bowler's). That is a poor throw by Conway

Yeah my first instinct was to ask "who was that with the pea shooter arm" but by the same token, the keeper shouldn't be haring out like that. It's coming to his end!

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Ian Smith is the resident expert keeeper here right?