straw man
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Congrats India, better by a long long way on what I think of as a more typical Indian wicket.
In truth although I'd still enjoy a third test right now, there's only a handful of NZ batsmen that are capable of making runs in these conditions and two of them are missing, so it would be a wipeout again.
NZC would've earned some sweet sweet moolah from that completely meaningless three match T20 series at the start of this tour; I hope it was worth it. I have no doubt that if there was ever a thought from the BCCI of instead scheduling a warmup 3 or 4-dayer or of playing a third test, NZC took less than a nanosecond to choose the T20 option.It's no coincidence our two worst performers this series - Taylor and Somerville - have had no cricket in months. You'd think we would have learned from previous tours that have gone horribly wrong that we need proper preparation, but instead we had no warmup games combined with no domestic cricket (in those two cases), and half the team having only finished the T20 World Cup a week beforehand. It's an uphill battle to start with playing India in their home conditions and that stuff makes it that much harder.
In truth although I'd still enjoy a third test right now, there's only a handful of NZ batsmen that are capable of making runs in these conditions and two of them are missing, so it would be a wipeout again.