*Official* New Zealand tour of India 2024

[centurymaker]

Another one. This is just ridiculous.

 

[SteveNZ]

That's something our lower order would do. Great take and effect of the dismissal by Blundell.

Game on

 

[Meridio]

Lol, a slack comedy run out to end the innings. India with a handy lead, no real feel for whether it's a significant one. For this innings at least it seemed to get much harder to bat on as the ball got older, so it could be an idea to be relatively aggressive against the new ball

 

[Daemon]

Both teams have actually played some pretty bad cricket so far with a few exceptions.

 

[centurymaker]

Sundar is batting way too low. Stranded twice now. What a waste of a batter who looks better than most, in these conditions.

Rohit
Jaiswal
Gill
Kohli
Pant
Washington
Sarfraz
Jadeja

 

[King Kane]

Hopefully Latham has some bat on this or he is in trouble.

 

[Meridio]

Well that's not the start we wanted

 

[King Kane]

Latham surviving the lbw appeal and then gets clean bowled next ball.

 

[Moss]

As usual Latham with one good knock and little else, but he did save a genuinely fine innings for when it was really needed.

Highest first innings score for India this series. If you’d suggested before the series 263 would be it, doubt you’d find any takers. NZ can be pretty proud though i think India have enough for this game.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Looks like the ball is seaming a wee bit on this deck too. A shame Henry didn't get another go the way he's been bowling. Could have made things tougher for India.

 

[Skyliner]

Captain Tom is rocks or diamonds. Mainly rocks these days.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

NZ 11-1

@ashley bach

 

[Meridio]

Played it terribly did Latham, bat going across the ball towards mid on and way out in front of his body

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sundar going to get stranded yet again when he looks better than most of the batsmen above him. Just astonishingly poor tactics .

Wow what a surprise

 

[King Kane]

Latham is still our best left handed test opener since John Wright, he is probably better than most of our right handed test openers as well.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Latham is still our best left handed test opener since John Wright, he is probably better than our right handed test openers as well.

Mark Richardson was better than Latham. Conway might be too.

 

[King Kane]

Mark Richardson was better than Latham. Conway might be too.

Mark Richardson was a better test opener in terms of defending and staying out there but he made Latham look like Pant in terms of scoring rate.

I can't criticise Richo though as I was a right handed version of him as an opener. even my own teammates would sledge me for scoring so slowly.

 

[mackembhoy]

That's got to be one of the most embarrassing appeals I've ever seen.

 

[Meridio]

Next session huge for the direction of this test, don't really know who's in front here. Both sides in with a good chance, could be one of those games where one really bad session determines the outcome of the match

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Sundar 1-11

@ashley bach