1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

[Moss]

Good first over Santa. Neesham/CdG need to follow this up and bowl dry.

 

[91Jmay]

NZ still catbird seat, India needs another 100 from these two I reckon.

 

[cnerd123]

170 required of 30 with 6 wickets left. NZ still clear favorites, but India still in it by the skin of their teeth.

This is just the dead cat bounce of the innings

India are toast.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Gosh it is looking quite dark there.

 

[Flem274*]

Good first over Santa. Neesham/CdG need to follow this up and bowl dry.

no kill them

edit - india that is

 

[Spintolose]

Is anyone getting nervous yet?

Has the win predictor gone down from 70% in India's favour yet, or is it back up to 98% with this partnership building?

 

[hendrix]

would bring back Henry for Neesh tbh.

 

[wrongun]

Better line by Neesham

 

[straw man]

Santner has been too easily milked for 4-5 per over in some of the matches this tournament. That third ball of the over shows he can be a little flatter here and the pitch will give him something. Needs to frustrate the Indian batsmen.

 

[trundler]

When will Kane bowl

 

[OverratedSanity]

Can see one of these two trying to do something stupid against santner

 

[GotSpin]

Just tie up all the runs. Easy game

 

[thierry henry]

Neesham seems to have a bit of a knack of getting seam movement in the middle overs

 

[Meridio]

Excellent last two overs, only 1 off. Keep building that pressure.

 

[Uppercut]

Can see one of these two trying to do something stupid against santner

Yeah KW is right to get him on now while doing something stupid is still a stupid idea.

 

[trundler]

You need wickets. No point bowling dry now. Santner + Ferguson.

 

[Bijed]

Great bowling changes from KW so far. Giving Henry 7 and Boult 6 at the start was a good call.

Yeah, a few times recently he's impressed me with his willingness to front-load his bowling to try and do more damage earlier on, rather than take the 'safe option' and sit on frontline overs for later (although given what Henry's like at the death, it's not such a brave call with him). I'd like to see more captains doing it tbh, Morgan in particular seems to automatically rotate his opening bowlers off at the end of the power play, even if they've been bowling well and conditions were helping them (Woakes especially, given he often gets tonked later on on).

 

[wrongun]

This is just the dead cat bounce of the innings



India are toast.

Can see one of these two trying to do something stupid against santner

Yes hopefully Pant skies one

 

[Arachnodouche]

Can see one of these two trying to do something stupid against santner

Hope they don't. No demons in the pitch now. Just keep ticking it over till 150 or thereabouts, which hopefully comes up somewhere near the 37th over.

 

[straw man]

People don't comment on as much these days, it used to be always a big marker in a run chase but has become less relevant. But...

Asking rate now 6.