*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

[King Kane]

Doug Bracewell

The Hero of Hobart.

We could do with Dougie to finish off the Indian tail here.

 

[Meridio]

Buckets Mitchell with another catch

 

[Spark]

So much better from Ajaz.

Will be very interesting to see if NZ can avoid the dreaded third innings collapse this afternoon...

 

[straw man]

Aww nice ball, the previous one too.

Good innings from Gill.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

I can't stop reading
'IDFC First Bank'
as
'IDGAFC First Bank'

 

[King Kane]

Who needs Dougie when we have Jazzy, another good catch from buckethands too.

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

Gill has been good in recent times: 3 100s and 2 scores in the 90s this year

 

[ashley bach]

Gill has been good in recent times: 3 100s and 2 scores in the 90s this year

@centurymaker

 

[Meridio]

So looking like it will be a second innings shootout - how much of an advantage do we think bowling last will be? Worth 50 runs? 30? 100? Definitely starting to turn more

 

[honestbharani]

Yes absolutely. Drives me insane the way we've fielded today for instance.

I think it just reminds me of a lot of the stuff we've done as NZ fans on various tours over the years - to India and elsewhere - where we've kinda clung to missed chances as the thing that cost us a game - when in reality we were just second best by a distance over the whole test

Yeah, the England test against Pak (2nd one) the 2 tests we have lost and now this one if you go on to lose, I think can all be put down to poor catching as much as any other factor. Its understandable to drop 1 or 2 easy chances in an innings, not this many.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Batting order being shuffled around this much all series is ridiculous. I don't care what happens, there is no scenario where sarfaraz batting 8 makes any sense.

 

[King Kane]

There goes our lead, we need to keep India's lead to below 50 or we are in trouble.

 

[Spark]

Phillips has bowled a huge number of full tosses and half volleys today.

EDIT: And another one. It won't turn if you pitch it on the batsman's toes

 

[Meridio]

That's worth a review I think

 

[Prince EWS]

Batting order being shuffled around this much all series is ridiculous. I don't care what happens, there is no scenario where sarfaraz batting 8 makes any sense.

It's just another reason why the night-watchman decision was so insane. You shouldn't be sending your #11 in at 4 when it means your #10 will then be someone with six Test centuries. If they wanted to have a night-watchman last night to protect Kohli they should have just made it one of the allrounders.

 

[danzydab]

Absurd how Latham is refusing to bowl Sodhi and overbowling Phillips.

 

[Meridio]

Looked pretty out live, don't think he hit it, only question was where it hit him

 

[King Kane]

That looked out to me.

Is Sunny G operating the DRS?

 

[Daemon]

we should’ve gone with axar/kuldeep over siraj

 

[Meridio]

That's the value of a decent forward stride - for it to be hitting the stumps it pretty much has to be hitting you outside the line with that much turn