***Official*** India in New Zealand 2013/14

[silentstriker]

Anyone else in the USA watching it live having problems with cricinfo saying the 'event hasn't started yet.'

 

[Jono]

Anyone else in the USA watching it live having problems with cricinfo saying the 'event hasn't started yet.'

It hasn't yet.

 

[Zinzan]

You guys are weird.

NZ still well on top.

1, 2 wickets before the new ball and the game is over.

Mate, if you honestly think NZ are still favourites, I suggest you put a few lazy dollars on them because here's the latest from oddschecker.

India $2.25
New Zealand $2.75
Draw $201

Edit, ^ beaten to the punch.

 

[Athlai]

Hendrix is right, 1-2 wickets before the new ball and we're well on top.
The issue is that right now those wickets seem very unlikely.

 

[hendrix]

Mate, if you honestly think NZ are still favourites, I suggest you put a few lazy dollars on them because here's the latest from oddschecker.

India $2.25
New Zealand $2.75
Draw $201

Edit, ^ beaten to the punch.

227 runs still needed, 8 wickets in hand.

Just need Boult to find his line and length and they won't get close.

 

[Athlai]

227 runs still needed, 8 wickets in hand.

Just need Boult to find his line and length and they won't get close.

They've scored about 200 already for only the loss of 2 wickets, our bowlers are more tired. The sun is up and bright and the ball won't swing as much when we get it in like 30 overs time.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

He'd do a better job than this ****.

Do did see how many runs Williamson aka the best spinner in the country went for right?

Yes Sodhi doesn't has the best action, yes he has a long way to go in control, but he can turn it big, he can bowl good deliveries, he can get big drift. In the next couple of years the odds are he will start to put it together and become a good spinner. He is ****ing 21, Warne was 23 when he debuted. Give Sodhi 8 years to develop (meaning he has at least 5 years left at the top of his game) and he will be up there with the best spinners we have ever produced.

 

[Mike5181]

Seriously? I'm not sure how anyone who's watched a lot of NZ over the years could say that? Of the top of my head I can think of 5-6 occasions in which we've blown massive leads in the 3rd innings and then failed to bowl sides out chasing relatively high totals. Cynical as it sounds, when we were 2-down early yesterday I sent a text to a mate saying we'll be rolled for 100 and India will win by 5 wickets. Should have put my money where my mouth is.

I've seen it countless times as well. I guess the genuine improvements I've seen in the last few months lead to me to believe we'd put a bit of this stuff behind us.

I wasn't panicking when we collapsed in the second innings, but I wasn't entirely comfortable with 400. Seems pessimistic but you'd be incredibly naive to think India were going to roll over and die. These are good batting conditions, and these are quality batsmen. They survive Southee/Boult, and there's an opportunity there to exploit Anderson/Sodhi/Williamson later on. That's what they have started to do with Ish's bowling. 227 to score on this pitch, with eight wickets left isn't all that tough. We're still very much in this, but we somehow need to stop the flow of runs significantly until the new ball arrives. 5 an over in the last 10 is killing us at the moment. We won't have enough runs to play with.

 

[Zinzan]

227 runs still needed, 8 wickets in hand.

Just need Boult to find his line and length and they won't get close.

Honestly don't see us getting any more than 2 further wickets today, but time will tell and obviously hoping I'm wrong. Just can't see we're they'll come from at the moment with the pitch looking as good as it does. Southee looks the most likely, but I thought we lost it a little bit when he started bowling too much on middle & leg to Kohli. Boult doesn't appear to be swinging it and seems to be struggling with rhythm. Wagner is Wagner and whilst he might get the odd bonus wicket, he'll likely give his usual number of freebies away. Anderson looks very very innocuous and the less Sodhi bowls, the better.

 

[Prensel]

Opening back up with Sodhi?

 

[Jono]

Oh boy Sodhi. This could be genius or tragic.

 

[jonbrooks]

India finally turned up to play some cricket. Bloody bizarre decision by McCullum to not enforce the follow on but that's history now. NZ's only chance is to chip a few out with the new ball and add pressure.

India will cruise this.

 

[Zinzan]

Oh boy Sodhi. This could be genius or tragic.

I just don't get it. It's not like he's been ripping it past the bat or looking anything other than cannon-fodder against these blokes. 223 to win will very quickly become 180 after another 4 overs of Sodhi.

 

[Jono]

Dhawan - 88 bonus runs for India. He's a pretty good batsman when you expect him to score 0.

 

[Zinzan]

I've seen it countless times as well. I guess the genuine improvements I've seen in the last few months lead to me to believe we'd put a bit of this stuff behind us.

I wasn't panicking when we collapsed in the second innings, but I wasn't entirely comfortable with 400. Seems pessimistic but you'd be incredibly naive to think India were going to roll over and die. These are good batting conditions, and these are quality batsmen. They survive Southee/Boult, and there's an opportunity there to exploit Anderson/Sodhi/Williamson later on. That's what they have started to do with Ish's bowling. 227 to score on this pitch, with eight wickets left isn't all that tough. We're still very much in this, but we somehow need to stop the flow of runs significantly until the new ball arrives. 5 an over in the last 10 is killing us at the moment. We won't have enough runs to play with.

Sorry, so you're saying you're entirely surprised now ?

 

[Jono]

That Dhawan drop actually looking costly now.

 

[Bahnz]

This looks so easy ATM.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

southee is getting just a hint of swing

 

[Contra]

I hope Dhawan doesn't get fancy after getting his 100, needs to keep playing like he has been all this time.

lol@Mark Richardson v Craig McMillian

 

[Jono]

omg kohli pls dont do that.