***Official*** India in New Zealand 2020

[harsh.ag]

Jamieson's bowling makes facing Wagner less awkward almost

 

[Athlai]

PEWS can suck it for suggesting dropping Shaw for opening with ****ing Vihari, lol really? ****ing Vihari for Shaw opening in NZ? That'd be such a Azharuddin 90s move.

Haha suck it pews

 

[harsh.ag]

Excellent session of cricket.

 

[vcs]

Shaw looked good. Needs to work a bit on getting squared up while defending. Natural strokeplayer and can see him getting us off to a lot of quick starts as he settles into the team.

 

[vcs]

Jamieson - ugly action but bowls some real jaffas. Just has the knack of getting wickets.

 

[vcs]

I like this pitch. Bark is much worse than the bite. Full value for shots but a bit of nibble for the bowlers too.

 

[straw man]

Tim 'Stuart Broad' Southee has mastered the celebrapeal.

Tbf, he's not wrong there.

 

[Nintendo]

Peace our kohli, plumb as ****.

 

[Chewie]

Each team's trying to outdo the other with how terrible their reviews are

 

[hendrix]

Lol at that review

 

[straw man]

I like this pitch. Bark is much worse than the bite. Full value for shots but a bit of nibble for the bowlers too.

Seam/swing should last well into day 2 at least. After that, who knows.

 

[Gnske]

Life comes hard

 

[Nintendo]

Sean Riley: "That's a Watson-esque level review from Virat there."

Cricinfo comms learning from the best.

 

[honestbharani]

Nah that was hb, I argued against it. I don't think Vihari would be as bad an opener as you do but I'm a big Shaw fan so I was against leaving him out.

Yep and he played well today. But I never said he does not have potential, did I? Just that for this test or even series, that is how I would have gone, given the fact that Rohit is out injured anyways and is the incumbent. Jaddu will be wasted at 8. And we may still need 5 bowlers on this track.

On the game itself, With this bowling attack, we can make 400 here and still concede 600 and lose by an innings. The only real hope for us is that this side forces us to play aggressively, both with bat and with ball, and there is this 1 in 10 chance that it might just work out for us. That is about it. I am all geared up for the mother of all thrashings now.

 

[Gnske]

Remember when people hated Tim Southee?

Bad times, hope that mistake is never made again by this forum.

 

[Burgey]

I see Kohli’s flopped again. I gather there was some sideways movement then.

 

[OverratedSanity]

It's way better to bat on than the first test imo. Kohli's just batting horribly right now.

 

[cnerd123]

Some good balls to get Rahane and Kohli tho tbf.

 

[veganbob]

Some good balls to get Rahane and Kohli tho tbf.

Yeah southee's spell was outstanding. It's a pretty good pitch for batting.

 

[cnerd123]

Sometimes gotta give the bowling credit. It's not always bad batting. Facing swing bowling is tough.