*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

[sayon basak]

Oops
India playing 4D chess here

Where D stands for Dumb.

 

[Johan]

Is Kohli officially bad yet

been for like 5 years, people deluded themselves with a 180 on the flattest track in India in years and a hundred in a high scoring game against Windies.

 

[Spark]

Okay this gets me every time and I think it may have actually cost him here: why the **** do batsmen not run in a straight line? He's randomly veered about two metres to the right there for no apparent reason at all

 

[OverratedSanity]

Last few overs before stumps:

- brain-dead reverse sweep
- send in the worst tailender as nightwatchman
- nightwatchman forgets he's out there basically to be sacrificed, and burns a review first ball
- runout

I don't think you can do worse right before stumps lol. Disastrous is an understatement

 

[Shri]

Hope we lose and gambhir makes a powerplay to get rid of Kohli and rohit from test side

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Oof

 

[Arachnodouche]

Time to drop Kohli. Not even joking now, the guy's gone mentally. Total liability at a crucial position. Rahane redux, this.

 

[Molehill]

I was just starting to think as Jaiswal/Gill were cruising along that the real India had turned up today, they'd make 400 and win by an innings.........and then that!!

But what even is the real India these days?

 

[King Kane]

That was a rookie error from Kohli, he should have known better than to take a quick single to Henry, he can throw as well as he can bowl.

 

[honestbharani]

Last few overs before stumps:

- brain-dead reverse sweep
- send in the worst tailender as nightwatchman
- nightwatchman forgets he's out there basically to be sacrificed, and burns a review first ball
- runout

I don't think you can do worse right before stumps lol. Disastrous is an understatement

Its not even few... It was always gonna be 2 overs or 3 overs max. There are many things about "muh test cricket, I will defend" that I hate but putting the shutters down for the last 3 or 4 overs is NOT one of them. Just gotta play the ball on merit, no risks and see off the day and start again tomorrow. They have been cooked mentally from the moment they had the horror start in Bangalore. I think its been a mental fall than any cricket skills related that has led to these defeats.

The pitch should be at its best in sessions 2 and 3 at least for the first 3 days. If we are still in our innings by then it could go well. But it is a big IF. Hopefully the theoretically long batting line up helps.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

More Gautam cam

 

[centurymaker]

Kohli deserves to be sacked!! How dumb can he get? He was involved in a runout last game and now he decides to take a suicide single 2 mins before the close of play. He's lost it. His decision making is dead.

Even 150 looks far. There's been brainless batting in each of the 1st innings of this series. 46 all out. 150 odd all out. Now another one unfolding. Self-imploding again.

 

[Moss]

As a pretty big Kohli fan this is hard to watch (leaving aside the fact that I support NZ). Really hope he sorts his headspace out before the BGT, does well in Aus and calls it quits before his credibility gets further ruined.

 

[OverratedSanity]

The other two first innings collapses had some top bowling from NZ but I'm sorry this one is so hilariously self inflicted. Pure comedy.

 

[sayon basak]

Kohli deserves to be sacked!!

So does Rohit.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Kiwi dominance. Wow!

 

[Shri]

(leaving aside the fact that I support NZ)

No one cares **** off

 

[Spark]

Its not even few... It was always gonna be 2 overs or 3 overs max. There are many things about "muh test cricket, I will defend" that I hate but putting the shutters down for the last 3 or 4 overs is NOT one of them. Just gotta play the ball on merit, no risks and see off the day and start again tomorrow. They have been cooked mentally from the moment they had the horror start in Bangalore. I think its been a mental fall than any cricket skills related that has led to these defeats.

The pitch should be at its best in sessions 2 and 3 at least for the first 3 days. If we are still in our innings by then it could go well. But it is a big IF. Hopefully the theoretically long batting line up helps.

There seems to be a belief that they can just hit their way out of a situation. There really doesn't seem to be any willingness to just allow the game to slow, let the bowlers control the tempo for a while, and then accelerate later when conditions ease, or when the situation suits (i.e. not ten minutes before stumps). It just has to be all dominance, all the time. It's a very Darren Lehmann sort of gameplan which is very odd to see tbh.

 

[sayon basak]

Kiwi dominance. Wow!

India's comedy display more than anything.

 

[honestbharani]

The other two first innings collapses had some top bowling from NZ but I'm sorry this one is so hilariously self inflicted. Pure comedy.

I dont think the 156 was all that about the bowling personally. Lets face it, none of our collapses (and we have had one every time we have batted this series) have really been a 36/9 case where the bowling was unbelievable and everything took the edge and was caught etc. There have been at least 4 and upto 6 or 7 unforced errors in each of these innings and that is what has cost us.

I honestly dont think the bowlers can be blamed too much as the catching has been atrocious, the captaincy and field settings even worse etc. The only thing is perhaps the bowlers have tried too hard most of the time and tried to run through the batting instead of being patient.

I still think we field better and we probably win both the tests that we lost but that does not mean the batting has not been the primary culprit in us being 0-2 down right now.