***Official***Semi-Final #1- India vs New Zealand - November 15th - Wankhede, Mumbai (D/N)

[flibbertyjibber]

NZ choke on the big occasion again.

 

[R!TTER]

You mean three? India lost back in 2003 Simon.

 

[Shri]

southee punished by ****ing shreyas. might as well retire now

 

[Adorable Asshole]

Kiwis deserves to lose this one. They are even letting Iyer make runs. Not just runs but sixes.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I’d rather listen to Viv talk about literally any story from his playing days than listen to commentators talk about how they should bowl more off cutters.

The man is from an island with 365 beaches. Coolness personifies him.
Bear in mind that his stint in the commentary box with Mark Butcher I think earlier in the year was pure gold. I thoroughly enjoyed that.

 

[Aidan11]

More than 1000 posts already on here.

 

[GIMH]

Kiwis: hey now Hey Now, don't dream it's over

 

[trundler]

The pitches earlier on in the tournament had something in it for our bowlers, this pitch is a road that is tailor made for the Indian batsmen.

Most teams bowling attacks would be getting carved up in these conditions, if it's this easy to bat on tonight we might give the chase a crack.

Shami is the best dry pitch pacer since Waqar and this is exactly the kind of pitch where you'd much rather have Jadeja than Santner too. It's not a total road. 360+ and it's game over especially with the ball traditionally doing a bit under lights here.

 

[jcas0167]

Viv Richards with today's bats would be something else.

 

[Shri]

kohli will get the ton today. doesn't look like he is even thinking about it atm

 

[Molehill]

NZ got 393/6 in the 2015 quarter vs West Indies.

The 2015 World Cup didn't happen (have a feeling I might be removing 2023 from my hard drive in years to come too).

 

[h_hurricane]

Kohli equals Sachin's 673 now.

 

[jcas0167]

Phillips bowling has been one of the surprise packages of this Black Caps campaign. I keep forgetting he first made the side as a keeper.

 

[Arachnodouche]

This feels like a random bilateral ODI in some second-tier Indian city with a patchy cricket ground.

Love it.

 

[eroticfishcake]

Iyer hitting some really clean sixes

 

[Shri]

sachin's 673 run WC record from 2003 has been broken

 

[Window]

.. If Kohli does go onto to score a century it'll mean 3 personal records of Tendulkar will have been eclipsed during this tournament.

1.Most ODI centuries
2.Most World Cup ODI centuries
3.Most Centuries in World Cup matches.

.. The only thing he'd basically have left is the overall runs in a World Cup in which Kohli is still a good circa 600 runs away from.

One player having all those records vs split across multiple players. But yeah I do suspect a lot of Tendulkar’s records will fall over time across multiple players.

 

[trundler]

That's what you call a crowning achievement.

 

[King Kane]

NZ generally adapt well, hasn’t been the case in this half of the tournament. Discipline’s been missing and it’s cost them.

We haven't bowled that well but the bowlers are on to a hiding to nothing bowling on this pitch, it's way too much in favour of the batsmen.

It's not a good pitch even for an ODI, you need a better balance between bat and ball to provide a better contest, only Indian fans will be enjoying this.

 

[jcas0167]

Has Mitchell bowled at all in this WC?