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

[honestbharani]

I would love to see one of the newer guys trialled. Saini or even Siraj or Shardul, both of whom have far better red ball stats than white ball stats. But I think it will be Umesh. Kohli loves him way too much. If Umesh can actually hit his usual speeds, may well be the fastest attack we have ever fielded with all 3 regularly 140+ kph.

 

[vcs]

Umesh deserves his go even though I feel he is not suited to those pitches. New age Ishant is actually the perfect first change seamer in those conditions. Ah well, hope for the best.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah but he is our new ball bowler. Shami has been first change all through. Though now it may well be Umesh.

 

[harsh.ag]

It's between Umesh and Ishant for the third pacer spot, afaik

Edit:

Grade 3 ankle sprain means Ishant is ruled out of test series.

That sucks. Umesh then surely.

 

[vcs]

Yeah I think Ishant and Bumrah took the new ball in WI when we had our first choice attack available. I guess it's flexible.

 

[harsh.ag]

Yeah.. he is also perhaps the most capable batsman of our seamers, so we may miss some valuable lower order runs too. So cruel coz we don't even play tests till like next winter now.

Wut

 

[honestbharani]

2 tests Vs NZ in Feb. Then next test series is only against England in November.

 

[h_hurricane]

Series against Eng is in 2021 Jan iirc. In November, we play Aussies down under for a 4 test series after the T20 WC.

 

[honestbharani]

Oh ok.. sorry. But either way, not much game time at all for the test specialists this year.

 

[h_hurricane]

Yep, even though it is a T20 WC year, a bit sad that we are not playing enough tests.

 

[OverratedSanity]

The IPL being 3 times longer than it needs to be doesn't help.

 

[nzfan]

Bit of a set back for India losing Dhawan I suppose. Good for us. Shaw now in the one day team, fully deserving I guess. He's been scoring heaps in domestic cricket I see. Sanju Samson in T20 is a gun player. He's going to cause us some headaches. Shaw a very good aggressive player but I'd rather have us bowling to Shaw than Dhawan. Geez Dhawan scores all around and besides he's a left hander. Now India have right handers at the top of the inning and all the way through to lower middle order which is good news for our bowlers.

 

[Kippax]

https://scoring.nzc.nz/#m4026f91d-6d47-401d-aa8a-cd734233eb4a

India A have won the toss and have elected to bowl

R Ravindra
GH Worker
GD Phillips
TC Bruce*
TA Blundell†
JDS Neesham
CE McConchie
TD Astle
KA Jamieson
AY Patel
JA Duffy
OR Newton (12th)

PP Shaw
Mayank Agarwal
S Gill*
SV Samson†
SA Yadav
V Shankar
KH Pandya
AR Patel
RD Chahar
KK Ahmed
Mohammed Siraj

 

[Kippax]

Getting punished with dislikes for their tech failure. I would've been running a few tests in those NZ XI games, but these guys probably don't really have their heart in it. 3:30am start in India, so it could've been worse.

If you want to stick this link in a browser that plays rather than downloads mp4s, change the over and ball number on the end and hit return, you can watch a bit more of the game that way.
https://pooch.azureedge.net/4026f91d-6d47-401d-aa8a-cd734233eb4a/1_001_01.mp4

 

[nzfan]

Game is not live... bugger Ravindra out. Hope Phillips gets a big one here. I suppose Ravindra's pull shot he got out to is from having played loads of T20s recently. He's under it and trying to blast it.

 

[kaetor]

Rachin seems to be throwing it away a lot after getting to a middling score. Hopefully he'll learn.

Phillips run out was god awful.

 

[Smudge]

I've asked the mods not to sticky it until either they or Flem correctly capitalise the thread title.

In your face, Phlegm.

 

[nzfan]

Rachin seems to be throwing it away a lot after getting to a middling score. Hopefully he'll learn.

Phillips run out was god awful.

Why didn't Phillips ground the bat and he barely took off for the first one. Run your first run hard boy. Looks like he was too relaxed.

The pitch looks to be up and down on pooch. Rachin had set himself up nicely and scoring quickly too but like I said the T20 has him hitting the pull shots in the air. Need to keep it on the ground in a one day game. He was batting beautifully against spin. A hundred and some decent score here may get him into the senior team in the winter. Not to be today.

No one's scoring quickly today barring Rachin. Bruce has edged away half his runs shows the pitch is not state highway and 250 should be good here. Blundell out to one that stopped on him as well. Wonder if they are on a used pitch?

 

[kaetor]

Anyone at the ground? It looked a bit like they decided to try for a sneaky single after a small misfield or possibly just trying to be cheeky due to some lethargic fielding and it backfired.

More chances soon. It's been a running theme against India A (with the NZ XI) to get caught on a pull or hook, seems nobody is taught to roll the wrists anymore.

 

[nzfan]

Maybe speaking too soon but the second run of Indian pacers don't look great. If India loses Ishant Sharma and any other pacer to an injury our boys will be rejoicing.