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  1. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Someone needs to help Santner out, even by drying up runs at one end. GP unfortunately hasn’t done that job so far, going at 7.5 runs an over.
  2. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    “He's got big hands like buckets.” Sometimes his bucket has a hole in it. Not that time though.
  3. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Just need to stay in the fight and grab any chance offered. Ball still pretty new and if India keep attacking like this of course they will score runs, but could also offer chances.
  4. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    The ball is only 12 overs old. Get Jaiswal soon and the whole game turns again. Just before Sharma got out Smith was making it sound like it would be a cake walk. If the batsmen want to opt for all out attack then that’s their prerogative but they will invariably give chances with that approach...
  5. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Changes of speed that have worked for Santner. Ajaz has been far too predictable.
  6. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    As the ball gets softer it won’t bounce as much, the variability will become more of a factor. Santner just about bowled Gill there.
  7. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    What say you now Smithy? Indian dressing room still dancing a jig of joy over how easy it is?
  8. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Not sure you can rave about the merits of this approach and the effect it has had like Smith does when one bloke is on 8 and the other is in 21. The sample size is too small.
  9. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    What a ridiculous review. 🤦🏻‍♂️
  10. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    “Tim Southee leads our attack magnificently” is the standard cliche.
  11. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Living dangerously.
  12. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    That has to be a very good score on that pitch. NZ scored a lot of runs off the reverse sweep as a way of constantly breaking the shackles on a difficult surface. And there was a fair bit of luck involved in doing that with Blundell and Latham somehow surviving and building significant scores...
  13. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    India were evidently deeply humiliated by getting bowled out for 40 odd and getting defeated by NZ at home. The coach and the captain have read the players the riot act and told them to get out there and boss the NZ attack and restore injured pride. This has caused their batsmen to show the...
  14. Skyliner

    *Unofficial* New Zealand Black Caps Thread

    That must be the worst dismissal of ‘King Kohli’s’ career, what an appalling shot, an across the line swat at a full toss. He’ll hate seeing the replays and he’ll hate anyone else seeing the replays.
  15. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Tom ‘Mike Brearley’ Latham. The specialist captain.
  16. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    5/15 for Henry. What a disgrace he didn’t play in Sri Lanka.
  17. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    ‘Head coach Gary Stead said that the discussions between him and Southee after the Sri Lanka series would remain private but acknowledged they were "delicate" and did concede that without Southee as captain it allowed greater flexibility in selection.’ 😳...
  18. Skyliner

    *Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

    Just going off Latham’s comments to Cricinfo it seems the team will be responding to their drubbing by Sri Lankan with a free wheeling attacking approach aka playing like headless chooks and throwing their wickets away. The licence to ‘have a go’ without fear (of consequences) will be liberating...
  19. Skyliner

    New Zealand doom and gloom thread

    If the consensus is that the Baz captaincy era is a bit of a myth, and the results were not there, I’ll cop that. My comment was on the personality and ethos of the bloke: he did seem to try things and galvanise people, and maybe that attitude carried over for a time to the succeeding era. There...
  20. Skyliner

    New Zealand doom and gloom thread

    McCullum had an energy, enthusiasm, and swagger about him that elevated the whole environment. He was that kind of New Zealander with a brash optimistic attitude reminiscent of our cousins across the ditch. There are a lot of pretty bland personalities around the current setup, a bunch of nice...

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