*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Does NZC or the BCCI release official highlights packages? I’ve only seen dodgy cut and slice efforts on YouTube.

Bcci.tv website has 10 minutes for each day, as was recommended on here yesterday. They’re okay.

 

[honestbharani]

Jiocinema has the entire series free for those living in India. So if you can manage that, you can watch the full match highlights as well. They do a cut of all 5 days 10/15 min highlight packages together.

 

[CricAddict]

Is already going to happen. But that's fine. On a pitch that offered something for everyone the got hammered. They need spinning pitches if they want to come back into the series

I think India should be fine as long as they continue the basics of what they've done in the past few years winning everything at home. They just got complacent because it's New Zealand but I don't think they would be anymore looking at how NZ punched above their weight this test.

 

[Frost]

heard of bitter due to your team losing but why bitter **** after your team won?

Who's bitter? Just call it how I see it. If india don't do everything to help out there team at home( like many other teams btw) then that's on them. The next two pitches will be ragging turners. Basically nz batsmen will have to step up to and carry the team

 

[the big bambino]

How persistent was the cloud cover in this test? From reading the commentary, the new ball played pranks throughout the game while the batsman piled on runs in between. I suppose cloud have randomly appeared whenever the new ball was due, but the the difference in assistance the bowlers were getting between new and old balls seemed quite noticeable in this game.

 

[h_hurricane]

People are massively overplaying the toss call. Both teams said they'd have batted, neither knew there was gonna be that amount of inconsistent bounce and 22+ overs of extreme seam movement.

Indian batting is at it's weakest in the last 3 decades at least. We are frankly awful when it nips around. Batting first after thunder showers was a clear over estimation of their capabilities. Bangalore and a lot of southern India has a history of showers and floods in the later part of the year. It is pelting down here near the stadium as I type this.

It was still acceptable for Latham to say so and do so in case he won the toss as he isn't as much aware of the local weather as the Indian team management should be.

Indian team was rightly praised after the Kanpur test for the way they approached the game after a few days were washed off. Now it is their turn to cope up with some much deserved criticism.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

If so, you'd have to hope and pray it isn't Santner that we bring in for Southee, on the premise that he can bat a bit. Sodhi, Phillips and Patel gives us a nice variety, with Rachin if he has to bowl, too

Batting averages with averages in Asia in brackets

Santner 24.43 (24.6)
Sodhi 21.84 (24.4)
Henry 21.71 (27.25)

Surely Sodhi instead of Santner one hopes

 

[Xix2565]

How persistent was the cloud cover in this test? From reading the commentary, the new ball played pranks throughout the game while the batsman piled on runs in between. I suppose cloud have randomly appeared whenever the new ball was due, but the the difference in assistance the bowlers were getting between new and old balls seemed quite noticeable in this game.

Cloud cover doesn't matter too much with seam movement, which NZ bowlers got more often because they took a lot of the wickets with the hard new ball and on a pitch which hadn't really lost all the moisture on the surface. India didn't get the same bowling conditions a lot and when they did, they couldn't get things to fall their way.