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*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

Apex Predator

Apex Predator

State Vice-Captain
Pujara by 2021 was pretty much done as a good player of spin. He was averaging in mid 20's for a reason.
Eng tour of India , NZ series and Mirpur test in BD BGT in India showed his decline was irreversible.
Pre ACL tear Pujara was a different gravy with wide array of shot against spin.
Dude's mental toughness is the reason he made it this far despite such a major hindrance.
 
PaulLennon

PaulLennon

U19 Vice-Captain
Apex Predator said:
In my opinion going into test series India didn't even had one left hander to tackle left arm spin that time.
Dravid & TM had clearly messed up the playing XI wrt red soil Mumbai's raging Turner. Mayank is freakishly good player of spin if not for him we lose that test and series too.
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Man the fact that we pulled through in 2021-23 lol.

Even against Aus Axar-Ashwin saved us in 2nd test and against Eng Pant-Sundar in the 4th test.
 
centurymaker

centurymaker

Cricketer Of The Year
Even this year vs England, it was kind of a rescue act again, but due to different reasons, as there were several key absentees.
 
PaulLennon

PaulLennon

U19 Vice-Captain
centurymaker said:
Even this year vs England, it was kind of a rescue act again, but due to different reasons, as there were several key absentees.
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This time was ok. Batsmen made runs.

Rohit-Jadeja in one test and Jurel-Kuldeep in another were the lower order rescue acts but by and large batsmen did well.

2021-23 India were always in trouble. That 250-3 scorecard had disappeared.
 
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govinda indian fan

State Regular
Think we need to give sarfraz and jurel a chance in this series who knows they might be injury or someone going back home and these two would not be match ready
 
Apex Predator

Apex Predator

State Vice-Captain
PaulLennon said:
Man the fact that we pulled through in 2021-23 lol.

Even against Aus Axar-Ashwin saved us in 2nd test and against Eng Pant-Sundar in the 4th test.
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The 2021-23 Indian batting line up is collectively worst in last 3 decades of Indian history easily.
Pant Sundar Axar Ashwin rescue acts saved us from some humiliating defeats.

Kohli Pujara and Rahane all three were averaging in mid 20's together at some point lol.
 
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govinda indian fan

State Regular
Apprehantly bumarh was named vice captain and harshit mayank prasidh and nitish were among reserves in nz series. Does that mean mayank and rana are in contention for bgt🤔🧐
 
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govinda indian fan

State Regular
India squad for nz three tests= rohit(c) bumarah (vc) kohli gill safraz pant(wk) jurel(wk ) jadeja ashwin axar kuldeep siraj akashdeep reserves= harshit rana mayank yadav nitish reddy and prasidh krishna
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Asked about Southee’s place in the selection picture, Latham referenced the fact that “he took seven wickets (in one innings)” in Bengaluru “the last time we toured there as a test team,” which sounds impressive until you realise that was 12 years ago – almost two years before Latham, now a seasoned veteran, even made his debut.

Where were you 12 years ago, people?
 
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