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*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
straw man said:
If a bowler's-end call came it could only have been from the bowler (Henry) as the other infielders weren't as involved. Or it might just have been Blundell only.

Anyway, it was a mess all round.

Time to introduce some different bowlers, probably.
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Henry actually points at the keeper's end.
 
SillyCowCorner1

SillyCowCorner1

Moooo
I remember not so long ago when he was playing in the domestics and he got a century and pointed his bat at a National selector (?)

And they still didn’t pick him in the test squad
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Spark said:
Nah I think he just decided on his own that it was bowler's end. If you look at what he does after he collects the ball, he never even looks at the keeper's end - it doesn't seem to occur to him that the opportunity is at his end and Sarfaraz was never in danger.
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Fair enough. I still wonder about that because he was no chance throwing to the bowler's with a glove on. I've watched it a few times now and it looks like he's only thinking of staying at the stumps, then sees it's a **** throw, completely forgets about his stumps and thinks his only option is the bowler's.

There's every chance that's the turning point in the Test. We absolutely need wickets before the new ball.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
SteveNZ said:
Fair enough. I still wonder about that because he was no chance throwing to the bowler's with a glove on. I've watched it a few times now and it looks like he's only thinking of staying at the stumps, then sees it's a **** throw, completely forgets about his stumps and thinks his only option is the bowler's.

There's every chance that's the turning point in the Test. We absolutely need wickets before the new ball.
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Yeah this is what I mean about lacking game awareness. He just sees the throw being loopy and thinks he has to rush out and get it without taking anything else into consideration.
 
King Kane

King Kane

International Regular
Not only was that missed run out chance terrible fielding on our part it was terrible running from Pant as well.

Like Ravi Shastri said Sarfaraz was doing a rain dance telling him to go back but Pant took a long time to respond and go back, comical all round.
 
Meridio

Meridio

International Regular
Jfc I thought some of the commentary about India's position at the start of the day to be way over the top but we have been utterly awful here. Garbage tactics and poor fielding and suddenly it looks like India will be ahead before tea.
Oh look Southee bowls a normal ball and it suddenly pops off a length. As they have all game, there's variable bounce, why are we bowling other **** instead?
 
King Kane

King Kane

International Regular
It's looking quite gloomy there, a rain break now might actually do us a favour, give us a chance to regroup and halt India's momentum.

Pant is starting to click into gear now too.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
Wildly impressive by these two batsman but this is as singular an example of throwing a game as I've seen in a hot minute
 
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