*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

[King Kane]

Good knock from Conway but threw it away by fishing at a wide one.

 

[King Kane]

Great use of the feet from Rachin to take Jadaja downtown for six.

India are changing the field to him, he's causing some panic there.

 

[Silver Silva]

All of a sudden our whitewash over NZ looks way better than perceived

 

[Meridio]

Mitchell looking skittish as hell out there. It's like he's decided before the ball is bowled what shot he's playing - either the charge down the pitch, or the reverse sweep, or a block - and it's all premeditated.

 

[OverratedSanity]

We kinda suck. Attack looks very toothless bar Ashwin

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I would say it's conservative more than logical.
Is the Indian batting line up really that fragile?
If you go through the team :

●Best opening partnership in the world especially in these conditions

●Gill is averaging 50+ at No.3 this year

●The selectors have decided Kohli is undroppable so that's on them

●Sarfraz is incredible in these conditions

●Pant is probably the best keeper batsmen India have ever had

●Jadeja is an ATG Indian all rounder

●Ashwin is probably top 5 greatest No.8's in history

That's enough batting cover in my opinion, they just don't trust Kuldeep Yadav when his record says they should otherwise , it's the same line of thinking that made Ashwin warm the bench at the WTC final last year.

I think the main reason is they wanted another accurate offspinner there as well as Ashwin since Latham, Conway, and Racindra are all in the top 4

 

[King Kane]

Mitchell is like Stokes, he can look terrible early on and then unleash with a matchwinning innings,

 

[Molehill]

Mitchell is like Stokes, he can look terrible early on and then unleash with a matchwinning innings,

I think the best example of that these days is Travis Head. Will literally play and miss about 10 of his first 15 balls then smack a run a ball ton.

 

[Silver Silva]

NZ please share the secret on how to make Bumrah look mid in Test cricket , you are the one test nation where he looks human against.

 

[anonymouskefe]

bowl that kinda ball to someone else

 

[Daemon]

I think the main reason is they wanted another accurate offspinner there as well as Ashwin since Latham, Conway, and Racindra are all in the top 4

Tbf Kuldeep also turns it away from them

 

[Bahnz]

Good innings, great ball.

 

[King Kane]

It took a great ball to get our great batsman out.

Tom Blunder to the rescue.

 

[Daemon]

Yessss

 

[_Ed_]

Oof. This Blundell decline is getting more and more concerning.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sundar to the rescue as usual

 

[OverratedSanity]

Blundell is in horrific form

 

[Howsie]

You can’t play Blundell in Asia

 

[anonymouskefe]

Ive seen enough of Blundell lets hope Mitch hay has a good series

 

[PaulLennon]

Tbf Kuldeep also turns it away from them

doesn't have the accuracy of a fingerspinner plus also batting cover.