Black Caps in India

[No Quarter]

Plan for tonight - send Guppy out in his ODI uniform and tell him to fucking go for it. He won't last more then 10 overs so he may as well smack 80 odd in that time.

[Hooroo]

nah, I reckon he should play himself in and get his test match eye in...........

[Chris B.]

Sooo....just 376 to win.

From the Monty Burns school of coaching ("You, Strawberry...hit a home run. .... I told him to do that!"), I'm pretty confident that if Guppy and Nicholls can each score a decent hundred then we'll win. Surely the others can do enough batting around them.

There's the formula boys! Get to it!

[No Quarter]

11 down 375 to go. Good start.

[Chris B.]

Guppy gets a big life! That looked plumb to me.

[Chris B.]

55/0 at lunch. Pretty much 1/7th of what we need.

To paraphrase the Captain and Tenille, "Do that to me six more times, once is never enough...".

That's another formula.

[Godder]

Guptill must be due for the place-saving gritty century in a losing effort...

[Chris B.]

He's got no chance Godder - Jesus wept -get in the bunker with Mimic!

[Donsteppa]

55/0... highest opening partnership of the series this far!

[Donsteppa]

Doully keeping onside with his paymasters...

[Chris B.]

@Chris-B. said in Black Caps in India:

He's got no chance Godder - Jesus wept -get in the bunker with Mimic!

Scheissenhausen!!!

I spent the whole lunch break sitting with my feet off the ground and it wasn't enough!

[No Quarter]

I never had an opinion of Jadeja before but after this series I can't stand the fluffybunny.

Tucker shares my sentiments it appears.

Arrogant prick.

[No Quarter]

Tucker explains to Kohli the fucking simple fact that the bowler can't charge across the pitch scuffing up the footmarks and he walks away shaking his head.

Seriously, fuck this Indian team.

[No Quarter]

Oh, and on the LBW shout.

Indian comm: "clearly hitting middle stump".
Doull: "I can understand Jadeja's frustration as it was another decision that was pretty plumb".
Me: "Possibly clipping off stump, difficult to tell without Hawkeye so good decision".

Oh look, cricinfo agree with me:
"Jadeja to Latham, no run, humongous lbw appeal from Jadeja, and earns himself a warning for running across the danger area while appealing. Latham looked to sweep from the stumps, and it pitched in line but didn't straighten enough to hit off stump, I think. Plus Latham took a really long stride forward. Just missing off stump, according to the Hawkeye tool on our scorecard"

The more LBWs that go against India the better. It's a fucking travesty if it goes against the team that wants to use DRS.

[No Quarter]

Now screaming for one that hit Latham miles outside off stump. Jadeja is taking the piss.

[Donsteppa]

Doull would have "no issue with that" if an NZ batsmen was out LBW after being hit in the head by a bouncer.

[Chris B.]

@No-Quarter said in Black Caps in India:

Now screaming for one that hit Latham miles outside off stump. Jadeja is taking the piss.

That must have been the ball after Rossco got out. They got a bit too excitable about that one.

I think they just said this test has had the most lbws ever in a test in India.

[Bones]

@Chris-B. Yep, 14. I think they said 25 so far in the series?

[Chris B.]

That sounds about right. India got lots in the first test.

[Mokey]

Taylor makes 4 runs. He's been more than a bit shit lately.

But if Ronchi can just stay put for a while with Latham...