Black Caps tour of India - 2024

nzzp

@Virgil said in Black Caps tour of India:

@ACT-Crusader said in Black Caps tour of India:

So from this series

Sir Matt Henry
Sir Rachin Ravindra
Sir Mitch Santner
Sir Ajaz Patel

Id chuck in Sir Will Young (player of the series) and even put in a special mention to Glenn Phillips
Scored some valuable runs and took wickets

And that's kind is the point. Basically everyone contributed so some staff.

That said, I think we should get looking hard at a new keeper

Virgil

Some of the comments and replies over in Reddit are gold, heres a few of the best ones..

A kiwi whitewash without Kane, no less....
-Did it without Santner in two tests too

Before the series started, we all knew nothing could stop a 3-0 victory. So sad to see test cricket dying with predictable results such as this

Smh my head, new zealand should stop scheduling series with such minnows just to boost their wtc chances

It was over once Pant went down..
-just like my dates

bayimports

@Virgil I was loving the comments about Australia should start producing some turning pitches for as clearly India can’t play spin or even part time spin in test matches.

MN5

@bayimports said in Black Caps tour of India:

@Virgil I was loving the comments about Australia should start producing some turning pitches for as clearly India can’t play spin or even part time spin in test matches.

That series will be most interesting.

India away from home and their confidence will be shot to pieces. Very hard to see much going right for them over there

Virgil

The whole series was a big LOL really
we embarrassed them in the first test with brilliant pace bowling, dismissing them for 46 LOL

They then instruct their groundsmen to prepare a more 'home friendly' spin friendly pitch for the 2nd test..result we belt them harder with Santner wrecking them LOL

They go harder likely behind the scenes demanding something more in their favour for the 3rd test pitch
Result another humiliation as India for the first time ever at home cant chase a sub 200 score at home and lose 0-3 LOL

dogmeat

Fucking hell. Two victories in India in 69 years and then three inside three weeks.

Favourite sporting memory ever - across all sports

canefan

@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:

@bayimports said in Black Caps tour of India:

@Virgil I was loving the comments about Australia should start producing some turning pitches for as clearly India can’t play spin or even part time spin in test matches.

That series will be most interesting.

India away from home and their confidence will be shot to pieces. Very hard to see much going right for them over there

I can see them getting hammered by the Aussie seamers on fast bouncy wickets. Could get ugly

nzzp

@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:

@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:

@bayimports said in Black Caps tour of India:

@Virgil I was loving the comments about Australia should start producing some turning pitches for as clearly India can’t play spin or even part time spin in test matches.

That series will be most interesting.

India away from home and their confidence will be shot to pieces. Very hard to see much going right for them over there

I can see them getting hammered by the Aussie seamers on fast bouncy wickets. Could get ugly

does T20 prepare you for that though? My opinion of T20 revised completely after India got up at the Gabba a few years ago with a team of T20 specialists. In some ways you get bouncy, fast pitches with fast bowlers going all out - good prep for Tests in some ways. Yes, this is a hot take.

Rapido

@nzzp said in Black Caps tour of India:

@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:

@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:

@bayimports said in Black Caps tour of India:

@Virgil I was loving the comments about Australia should start producing some turning pitches for as clearly India can’t play spin or even part time spin in test matches.

That series will be most interesting.

India away from home and their confidence will be shot to pieces. Very hard to see much going right for them over there

I can see them getting hammered by the Aussie seamers on fast bouncy wickets. Could get ugly

does T20 prepare you for that though? My opinion of T20 revised completely after India got up at the Gabba a few years ago with a team of T20 specialists. In some ways you get bouncy, fast pitches with fast bowlers going all out - good prep for Tests in some ways. Yes, this is a hot take.

I don't think they were T20 specialists, just the 'A' team wider squad players. Although, I guess Sundar could be pretty much described as that at that stage, though. Probably was why he was there because of T20 series pre the test series.

India send their 'A' team to the same location as their main test tour (e.g. India A and Aus A are playing a series currently) so they have the best prepared wider squad. The other 2 in the Big3 also have the resources to do this.

It is almost impossible for an Indian player to be a T20 specialist as Finn Allen is doing or the West Indians do. The BCCI refuses to let any Indian players play in the overseas t20 leagues, presumably to protect the IPL's position. So even a Hardik Pandya type probably plays more FC games a year than an NZ plunket shield specialist.

Nevorian

Bloody ripper result, has to be our greatest cricket achievement ever.

Funnily enough I was at an Indian restaurant on Saturday night and they had a tv with the cricket on. I was able to watch the BCs go from 3 down to 9 down in the time it took to eat my Rogan Josh. I mentioned to the waiter who was an avid Indian fan as I was leaving that I am a kiwi and I was pretty happy with what was going to be a 2-1 series win for us. Then didn’t check the result until last night thinking India would have comfortably got the required runs just after lunch some time.

MN5

I think losing 0-2 would have been an okish result if we at least showed fight.

Losing 1-2 better.

Drawing 1-1 better still.

Winning 2-0 or 2-1 ? Fantasy stuff.

Winning 3-0 ?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

You’re absolutely dreaming.

Don’t wake me up !!!!!!

An absolutely remarkable result.

Snowy

@dogmeat said in Black Caps tour of India:

Favourite sporting memory ever - across all sports

Have to be mine too I think.

I want to go back and find all the comments about a 3 nil whitewash in this thread...

I didn't actually post any of them, but I did concur and am absolutely delighted to have been SOOOOO wrong. Wow. Just fucking WOW.

Nogusta

And still not the front (back) page main story in the Herald today
Instead it's about the All Black's bench

mariner4life

@Nogusta said in Black Caps tour of India:

And still not the front (back) page main story in the Herald today
Instead it's about the All Black's bench

it should be a national fucking holiday

Crazy Horse

I wonder what the TAB odds of a 3-0 series win to NZ were?

Rapido

NZ had never whitewashed a 3 match (or more) series ever in their history before. Home or away, minnow or giant.

Closest would have been 2014ish when we beat Windies 2-nil in a 3 match series and the first test was drawn when Shane Shillgford put our 4th innings chase into enough of a wobble that we went too slow in a fairly low chase before rain came in final session of the 5th day.

Since we've become actually good at test cricket since 2014, we've had mostly 2-test only home series, of which we've 'whitewashed' plenty. But 2 tests is not really a series, is just a sequence.

Also series v the minnows elevated to test status after us (early Bangladesh, early Sri Lanka, Zim etc were 2 match series. Even back in the 80s)

Rapido

On the flipside. We have been pantsed 0-3 on 9 occasions in 3-match serieses.

And have never been whitewashed in the rare occasions we played a 4 or 5 tests series. Although lost 0-4 on 2 occasions in a 5 match series.

Nepia

@Nogusta said in Black Caps tour of India:

And still not the front (back) page main story in the Herald today
Instead it's about the All Black's bench

Which is hilarious too considering how many anti rugby articles the Herald likes to pedal.

Anyone have any good memes, as a born again cricket fan last week I'd like to spam a couple of my Indian mates with some meme banter.

ACT Crusader

@Cyclops said in Black Caps tour of India:

What a feeling. This is right up there with the WTC final. WTC was for a world championship so that's really special, and I think I would have ranked the WTC win higher if that had ended up a 2-1 (or 2-0) series. But to be better than India, in India consistently across three tests is a phenomenon achievement, so I'd rank it as the block caps best ever result.

My son was born on the 30th of September. Black caps haven't lost a test since!

Congrats bro.

After the first test win and then during the second when we were taking wicket after wicket it started to feel like the 96 Boks tour. Being able to climb that mountain of a series win.

Chris

Young has to stay Kane back in Blundel to 7
Phillips gone, not enough runs and you don’t need another spinner you have Ravindra as a back up 2nd spinner.
Phillips will not bowl in NZ conditions and doesn’t warrant a batting spot ahead of the others on form,
Too hard to throw your opening bat the gloves in test matches he would be on a hiding to nothing.
And you do not need your opening bat to do a finger keeping.

The Silver Fern

Black Caps tour of India - 2024