NZ to win 3-0
Hope BGT is drawn 0-0Taking-big3-down-a-notch alliance
It’s a weird argument from Cricinfo to say the Indians batsmen were ‘short on confidence’ against spin when you look at the shots they got out to in that first innings: they had plenty of confidence, plenty of exuberance, they just didn’t execute. This was exemplified by Kohli’s ugly swipe to a full toss which saw him castled.The headline on cricinfo says 'India were short of confidence against spin'.
That's crazy to me. You have one of the world's best LA spinners, world's best offies (two of them), one very good left arm unorthodox, you literally have all the time in the world in the nets to get it right against these guys and replicate - or actually have something tougher - what you're coming up against. You probably have a bunch of guys you can access in the nets in most places in India, too. Most, if not all, sides don't do that. We can't face Kuldeep before we play the 1st Test, or anything like him. Glenn Phillips is not Ashwin nor Washington. There's no one at Lincoln on a 5 degree day in September that can replicate what we're going into. Yet we looked like the better players of left-arm spin?
If India were short on confidence it's because they didn't set themselves for this series - their minds were on Perth next month.
get ahead of the game, that's gonna be Sir Gary to youStead ****ing sucks
I don't think there is any point in bringing KW in now. I would be sending Henry, O'Rourke back home to prepare for the next séries. Give Duffy and Chapman some game time.If KW is fit for the 3rd test, does he play, and at whose expense? Ordinarily it would be a fait accompli that he would come in for Will Young. But now….?
If Henry is fit, surely he comes back into the side but - again - at whose expense?
Some intriguing selection permutations to ponder.
Yes, he will obviously come in. Young's done OK in these 2 tests and deserves his fair share of the congratulations going around. But if KW's fit, the only way Young plays is if the selectors decide Young is a better bet at 5 than Mitchell.If KW is fit for the 3rd test, does he play, and at whose expense? Ordinarily it would be a fait accompli that he would come in for Will Young. But now….?
If Henry is fit, surely he comes back into the side but - again - at whose expense?
Some intriguing selection permutations to ponder.