*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

[KungFu_Kallis]

I'm calling it now, with 3 spinners on each team and and turn and nasty variable bounce in the first hour this has 3 day Test written all over it. 250 could be a good score again.

Ok so I was wrong. Actually going to be a 2.25 day Test.

 

[Meridio]

That's always the danger if you're going to play like that

 

[ashley bach]

Rohit 11(11) Goneski @SillyCowCorner1

 

[centurymaker]

Rooting for a whitewash here tbh

Might be ideal for India to be whitewashed. Will lead to big changes sooner.

Useless Rohit gone by the way.

 

[King Kane]

Rohit living by the sword and dying by the sword, that wicket gives us some hope.

 

[Skyliner]

GP you little ripper.

 

[Spark]

I'm sorry but that was disgusting. Rohit Sharma is one of the most talented players of his generation and is absolutely capable, as shown in quite a few innings, of scoring in tough conditions by batting normally. And he's decided to reduce himself to a tailend slogger. That is just reprehensible batting.

 

[ataraxia]

Good captaincy to have Phillips at midwicket.

 

[honestbharani]

Is there a reason why Dinesh Karthik insists on saying Murali Kartik's name in reverse? South Indian naming convention or just being different and annoying?

His name is Kartik. Murali is his father's name. Tamil folks usually dont have last names. So the initials, which is the first letter of the father's name, becomes either your first or last name depending on how you expand it in your passport.

He is saying that probably to ensure others dont call him Murali as that is not his name, its his father's name.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I'm sorry but that was disgusting. Rohit Sharma is one of the most talented players of his generation and is absolutely capable, as shown in quite a few innings, of scoring in tough conditions by batting normally. And he's decided to reduce himself to a tailend slogger. That is just reprehensible batting.

No, he's not. He's an amazing white ball batter but a pretty average test opener

 

[ataraxia]

I'm sorry but that was disgusting. Rohit Sharma is one of the most talented players of his generation and is absolutely capable, as shown in quite a few innings, of scoring in tough conditions by batting normally. And he's decided to reduce himself to a tailend slogger. That is just reprehensible batting.

Hard disagree. Bashing it has appeared to be effective on this wicket and moreover there is nothing more demotivating to a team defending a target than a quick 30.

 

[straw man]

I'm sorry but that was disgusting. Rohit Sharma is one of the most talented players of his generation and is absolutely capable, as shown in quite a few innings, of scoring in tough conditions by batting normally. And he's decided to reduce himself to a tailend slogger. That is just reprehensible batting.

Yeah it may be the right approach to go very attacking against an accurate spinner on this wicket, as the variable bounce will get you soon otherwise, but Henry was getting a little seam movement, nothing more.

 

[ataraxia]

!!!

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Wow!!!

Ajaz

 

[ashley bach]

Jazzy!!!

 

[straw man]

 

[Skyliner]

Gill……

 

[OverratedSanity]

Lol this bunch of losers. 146 is a long way off .

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Ajaz is gonna get 10 in this game again

 

[Meridio]

Yesss Ajaz! Poor batting that, with a new ball it's that much more likely to skid on rather than turn - the straight delivery is the danger