Final – India v New Zealand – Sunday, March 9 – Dubai

[King Kane]

Bowling pace now is brainless, they would be better off with Mitchell bowling stump to stump medium pace with the keeper up.

 

[honestbharani]

Then we're not talking about the same ball. I mean O'Rourke's first ball of his spell:

O'Rourke to Rahul, FOUR runs
Four to start the 45th over. Too full outside off, Rahul stays still and drills the cover drive away from the fielder deep.

I saw it, it was not full at all. Dunno what crapinfo are smoking.

 

[TheBrand]

Santner's captaincy has been so good all tournament, but feel like he's bottled it a wee bit in the last 10 here tbh.

Oh well, GG India - enjoy your asterix trophy :P

 

[NZTailender]

Finally, a legitimate 'straight up'

 

[SkyBlue]

Game on

 

[honestbharani]

Hardik is just not good enough against pace and bounce these days. Gotta need Jaddu to just stay calm here.

 

[slowfinger]

Jamieson is one of the best bowlers in the world, isn't he averaging like sub-20 in tests ??

 

[SteveNZ]

I saw it, it was not full at all. Dunno what crapinfo are smoking.

Cmon man, rewind your thingee bobby that you're watching on. It was a bug's forward step off a yorker it was that full

 

[James]

A hattrick here would be handy Jamieson....

 

[straw man]

Aside from anything else, it's been a nice few balls from Jamieson.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah wonder why they went to O Rourke before KJ here.

 

[TheBrand]

KJ should have come on instead of O'Rourke earlier.

 

[SteveNZ]

Jamieson is one of the best bowlers in the world, isn't he averaging like sub-20 in tests ??

Yeah but he played one Test last year, and isn't a particularly effective white ball bowler...yet

 

[slowfinger]

my theory is that Santner wanted to punish Jamieson for dropping that dolly earlier

 

[James]

Yeah wonder why they went to O Rourke before KJ here.

Yep, bowling changes were poor tonight, what immediately springs to mind:

* Bracewell didn't bowl until the 20th over
* Bowled O'Rourke before Jamieson in the death overs.
* Left Phillips with 5 overs

 

[SkyBlue]

This team still has too much bottling mentality. They're lucky this is not a big score

 

[King Kane]

Like I said pace s overrated unless Jamieson or O'Rourke can win this game, even Hadlee would have struggled to win this game on this pitch.

 

[honestbharani]

Yep, bowling changes were poor tonight, what immediately springs to mind:

* Bracewell didn't bowl until the 19th over
* Bowled O'Rourke before Jamieson in the death overs.
* Left Phillips with 8 overs

Yeah.. Look leaving aside all the Dubai advantage talk, practically, on this pitch, winning the toss is a 70% advantage for every side. NZ have not taken advantage of it. They showed how much more it was turning in the second inning even earlier. They should have had better bowling changes for sure.

 

[NZTailender]

All over rover. Well done India, for all my griping you're ultimately the better of the two teams. Congrats!

 

[Silver Silva]

Here it is ..Match will end any moment now .
Final rites being issued