*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

[thierry henry]

/are bowlers actually way better

 

[Spark]

Ok so are pitches now wildly worse for batting than they’ve been in the last 30 years, or have we just given up on batting? Because the approach and the acceptance of the approach to tough conditions (just slog cos staying in is impossible) is new and tied to a sense of hopelessness that didn’t previously exist?

I think it's exactly the right approach here within reason tbh. This is as difficult a pitch to bat on as you're likely to see outside of the legitimately stupid pitches which roll on the ground. Every other ball is doing something daft and totally unplayable.

 

[Spark]

Like full stop, how are you meant to play those. They've pitched on or outside leg and missed off stump at 95kmh.

 

[King Kane]

A great fifty from Young, he has arrived as a test batsman.

 

[Spark]

Hmm that's a poor way to go.

 

[PlayerComparisons]

Ok so are pitches now wildly worse for batting than they’ve been in the last 30 years, or have we just given up on batting? Because the approach and the acceptance of the approach to tough conditions (just slog cos staying in is impossible) is new and tied to a sense of hopelessness that didn’t previously exist?

There’s been a significant increase in test batting strike rates this year. I blame it on Bazball tbh. This is the way test cricket is headed.

 

[Daemon]

"As much Kohli's wicket as it was Jadeja's"

lol gavaskar

 

[thierry henry]

I think it's exactly the right approach here within reason tbh. This is as difficult a pitch to bat on as you're likely to see outside of the legitimately stupid pitches which roll on the ground. Every other ball is doing something daft and totally unplayable.

So the answer is basically that pitches that are wildly unfit for batting have become much more common. Which is ITSTL I guess.

 

[Spark]

There’s been a significant increase in test batting strike rates this year. I blame it on Bazball tbh. This is the way test cricket is headed.

You absolutely cannot be just fiddling around scrounging singles on a deck like this. Usually I'm all for knuckling it down and gritting your way through it, but not here. Not only is it the only way you'll ever really score, it's also the only chance you have of knocking bowlers out of their rhythm.

 

[Meridio]

That's an odd dismissal

 

[capt_Luffy]

I think Will Young just had the greatest Test Series of his life time.

 

[Meridio]

"As much Kohli's wicket as it was Jadeja's"

lol gavaskar

Was nauseating tbh, he's positioned where the captain and bowler want him ffs

 

[thierry henry]

There’s been a significant increase in test batting strike rates this year. I blame it on Bazball tbh. This is the way test cricket is headed.

Yeah I find it hard to believe that BazBall and T20 proliferation have just so happened to coincide with pitches so unplayable that you have to slog

 

[King Kane]

A bad shot from Sodhi, hopefully the rest of our tail can stick around to get Young to his ton.

 

[Nintendo]

Yeah I find it hard to believe that BazBall and T20 proliferation have just so happened to coincide with pitches so unplayable that you have to slog

This isn't just a bazball or t20 thing. Pant and head where doing this before mccullum took over on some horrid pitches, and head was a bad t20 cricketer until 2024. The whole "bat aggressively because your gonna get one with your name on it" approach for hard batting conditions has been around for ages in FC cricket, no?

 

[Meridio]

A bad shot from Sodhi, hopefully the rest of our tail can stick around to get Young to his to ton.

Blimey, if they can see Young to a ton we'll have the game in the bag I reckon

 

[BazBall21]

Think that's the game. Don't see NZ defending 140.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Bazball levels of capitulation

 

[Nintendo]

Blimey, if they can see Young to a ton we'll have the game in the bag I reckon

You jinxed him

 

[Spark]

Think that's the game. Don't see NZ defending 140.

Wild **** can happen on a deck like this but yeah they still need a little more to be in with more than a puncher's chance.