Warm Ups

[Athlai]

Even better:

48.6


Singh to Broom, 2 leg byes

48.5


Singh to Broom, SIX, slog sweep over deep midwicket, out of the grounds

48.4


Singh to Broom, FOUR, straight back over bowlers head

48.3


Singh to Broom, SIX, again flicked over the boundry into the crowd on the onside

48.2


Singh to Broom, SIX, big shot over mid wicket boundry

48.1


Singh to Butler, 1 run, worked to mid on

Nice to see the Indian pacers are adapting well to the conditions.

NZ scoring 300+ is pretty sweet. Can't recall when we've done so and not been chasing.

 

[Raghav]

Indians will find it difficult to chase this against NZ bowlers. Vettori will be a happy man

 

[Athlai]

Though cricinfo may be wrong I'm surprised that Mills and Tuffey aren't being given a game. Jeets, Bond and Butler are playing instead. Would play both Mills and Tuffey ahead of Jeets and Butler tbh.

 

[Naumaan]

great score by newzealand, wish could watch these matches live
by the way, warriors scored 261/6 against Pakistan
looks like they 'll beat Pakistan too :d

 

[Shri]

No Sachin in the warm up game. India will score 250+ and lose imo.

 

[Pratters]

Dravid 28 off 22 balls.

As others have expressed, would have loved to see this game live.

 

[Shri]

5.6


Bond to Dravid, no run

5.5


Bond to Dravid, FOUR, inside edge, past the keeper

5.4


Bond to Dravid, FOUR, guided to thirdman

5.3


Bond to Dravid, FOUR, beautiful cover drive, racing away to the boundry

5.2


Bond to Dravid, no run

5.1


Bond to Dravid, FOUR, short ball, pulled away to deep square

WASSUP Dravid?!?

 

[Pratters]

Never underestimate or write off Dravid.

 

[Shri]

Off to a good start. If these guys get to 20 overs and score about 120 runs, Dhoni can come in and do his ones and twos thing and Yuvraj can finish it off with a cameo.

 

[Shri]

Amit Mishra SHOULD play the whole tournie imho.

 

[Arjun]

From the bowling figures, Amit Mishra has an economy under three and the next best performance is-surprise surprise- Yusuf Pathan with three wickets for 46! Spin will be a factor, so both Bhajji and Mishra will be needed in every match. On the other hand the Indians should avoid playing three specialist seamers together, on present form- too many runs leaked, too few wickets.

Let alone top order, do these folks still think Karthik is a batsman? No wonder Dravid has done all the hard work.

 

[Naumaan]

Cricinfo forgot ti update Pakistan match
i guess they have forgotten

 

[Pratters]

And as you speak, Arjun, Dinesh Karthik is out. FFS stop this experiment.

 

[Shri]

My XI for the CT:

Gautham Gambhir
Sachin Tendulkar
Rahul Dravid
MS Dhoni
Yuvraj Singh
Suresh Raina
Yusuf Pathan / Abhishek Nayar
Harbhajan Singh
Amit Mishra
Ishant Sharma
Ashish Nehra

 

[Pratters]

I would play only one from Harbhajan and Mishra on South African pitches.

 

[Naumaan]

good start by India

 

[Shri]

I would play only one from Harbhajan and Mishra on South African pitches.

RP Singh is so **** atm that selecting Mishra and Bhajji is justifiable.

 

[Pratters]

I have faith in RP.

 

[Shri]

I have faith in RP.

Faith doesn't win us games. Mishy does.

 

[Pratters]

13.1 Patel to Dravid, OUT

Game over.