1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

[The Hutt Rec]

NZ losing is always fun except when CM Punk comes out from the shadows to wallow in the misery

Weird poster.

He'd even take the enjoyment out of the doom and gloom thread, that guy.

 

[vandem]

So much for NZ freeing up. Guptill stuck on his crease tentatively that whole innings allowing Indian openers to bowl at him.

NZ were never going to "free up" today. They ditched the Munro approach last week.

Edit, and also went to defensive mode with the ball last week, e.g. opening with Santa and Southee. I think spooked by playing better teams.

 

[hendrix]

Gup looks a bit shot. Sad to see.

Looks like he doesn't know what his role is.

It is a very bizarre coaching/captaincy directive, at least from the outside. It really doesn't look as if many of them know what they're supposed to be doing.

 

[harsh.ag]

Posters were right to call for CdG to open. Some experiments are good.

 

[Flem274*]

thats pretty much a standard slip catch

 

[Athlai]

Gee the commentators love to blow Kohli.

Pretty regulation slip catch ffs

And he almost dropped it

 

[OverratedSanity]

Gee the commentators love to blow Kohli.

Pretty regulation slip catch ffs

We're just surprised the **** didn't drop it ok

 

[straw man]

Good bowling.

It has been, yes. One legside-ish ball Guptill should've found the gap, but otherwise accurate with movement and the batsman needed to make something. Which Guptill was completely unable to do.

 

[Moss]

Good bowling.

I don't know what's got into Guptill's head.

Possibly doesn't help having Nicholls at the other end, which is why Munro was there I suppose. Take a bit of pressure off, supposedly.

TBF he was really up against it opening in these conditions. Obviously you don't make decisions at the toss based on one or two players but asking a lot of your out-of-form openers to back it up.

 

[trundler]

Come on, Nicholls

 

[Flem274*]

Looks like he doesn't know what his role is.

It is a very bizarre coaching/captaincy directive, at least from the outside. It really doesn't look as if many of them know what they're supposed to be doing.

yeah i agree. guptill looks like he's playing for his spot and cracking, rather than a guy with a billion runs given a licence to smash.

he should be told every game to guptill smash

 

[Meridio]

Christ Guptill, so tentative. Learnt nothing from his last 8 bats.

And yeah, that catch was pretty simple as far as slip catches go, nice height, slightly to one side, if you're dropping that at international level your a mug.

 

[CM Punk]

So what are we doing with Guptill after the WC? Is he worth keeping around or do we start preparing for 2023?

 

[trundler]

Run rate finally over 1. Over for India.

 

[hendrix]

TBF he was really up against it opening in these conditions. Obviously you don't make decisions at the toss based on one or two players but asking a lot of your out-of-form openers to back it up.

? it's a really flat pitch.

I get the carry is good and there's a touch of movement but run-scoring should be really easy on a pitch like this. Looks like it's coming onto the bat beautifully.

This is ODI cricket.

Gotta find a way to get the bowlers off their lengths.

 

[Prince EWS]

Guptill's been an awesome ODI player throughout his career and his overall WC record looks fine too thanks largely to him slamming that double against the West Indies, but against top-7 teams across three World Cups now his record is abysmal.

Batting records | One-Day Internationals | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com

One of those two fifties was against Sri Lanka in this WC too -- hardly a scary opening bowling combination, and they were chasing about 130 too.

I don't think he's choking under pressure or anything like that (double ton against the West Indies being a good example of that - it was against a poor side but a very important game), but I think it says something for my theory that Test bowlers so often being rested from JAMODIs can create a bit of a different game entirely for openers to what happens in the World Cup proper now.

 

[Stapel]

Amazed he averaged 20, tbh.

Both Guptill & Munro had a good start with that 10 wicket win over Sri Lanka. And both have had an absolute shocker of a WC from there.

 

[CM Punk]

? it's a really flat pitch.

I get the carry is good and there's a touch of movement but run-scoring should be really easy on a pitch like this. Looks like it's coming onto the bat beautifully.

This is ODI cricket.

Gotta find a way to get the bowlers off their lengths.

It's going to look flat when India bat on it..

 

[Moss]

So what are we doing with Guptill after the WC? Is he worth keeping around or do we start preparing for 2023?

Bit early to be talking about this right? Anyway, wouldn't be dropping him and quite confident he'll make it to 2023.

 

[vcs]

I love ya Kane, but please get out early today.