Black Caps tour of India - 2026

[Bones]

@Gunner said in Black Caps tour of India - 2026:

Fuck, both set batters go within a few balls of each other. That’s happened a lot recently with the BC’s.
Could cost us 20-30 runs

Yeah sorry I had to pop out, seems I'm the anti-booboo.

[Bones]

A part time amateur would be embarrassed by that Hay.

Lucky escape

[Darren]

Anyone watching this? It could be something special…. I actually got up at 1am my time to put it on.

[Bones]

@Darren yep! India were going too well so I had to stop sorting the loft so we could get some more wickets.

[Bones]

Kohli and Harshit remonstrating with both umpires, lying that a ball was over head height. I thought that is extremely frowned upon in cricket? Or is India allowed to do it?

[Bones]

Guess it doesn't matter if kiwi bowlers are just gonna shit the bed.

[Bones]

Fucking abysmal. Surely you just need to get full on the wickets to Harshit?

[Bones]

Zac salvages a little bit of pride. No idea why a tailender is having a swing at something well down leg side though.

[Bones]

Never in doubt.

[Bones]

What a day for Phillips.

[Darren]

Wow. Hard to believe we just won our first one day series win in India? With that bowling lineup. And then Bracewell leaving the field unable to bowl.
What a crazy win.
And Mitchell….. dude is a straight beast at the moment.

[Shekou man]

Watching in Thailand, bloody awesome from our boys so proud.
A few errors but for an under strength team that has to rate up there with some of our best wins.
I suspect India will be shy of playing us any time soon as they must be sick of being our bitch by now.

[Bones]

Might have been a bit less heart in mouth if Hay had taken a regulation catch early on instead of the slightly harder leg side catch towards the end.

[Virgil]

Fair to say Mitchell likes batting against (especially in) India in ODI's

[Bones]

@Virgil considering today's venue is child's play for big scores according to sub continent commentators today, it's disappointing he's not the top 5. Must do better.

[Virgil]

Had a look, if he can score another 100 in his next ODI innings he will tie the record for quickest (least innings) to score 10 x ODI's 100s
The record is 55 held by SA's Quentin de Kock

[Bones]

@Virgil said in Black Caps tour of India - 2026:

Had a look, if he can score another 100 in his next ODI innings he will the record for quickest (least innings) to score 10 x ODI's 100s
The record is 55 held by SA's Quentin de Kock

He's south African, you don't need the Quentin bit.

[Bovidae]

A fantastic result on that pitch, and after the poor start.

Of the newbies, Lennox was very good in his two games - very economical. Spinners get found out quickly over there. Clarke also looks to be a handy option for the future.

[LABCAT]

Latham should probably go down to six when he comes back.

[MN5]

@Bones said in Black Caps tour of India - 2026:

Phillips hits a massive 6 off an aggressive block.

It's all that bench pressing. Huge power.

Wonderful win against an Indian team with some very silly names. Pretty extraordinary stuff, by golly the BCs lift when they're in the sub continent.

Mitchell must have heard he still wasn't quite an automatic selection in the fern XI and got a century just to reinforce his case. Gosh he's ridiculously good at this level.

Hats off to Kohli for just cheekily notching up a 54th ODI century. Slightly different eras maybe but worth noting this is more than recent legends Lara, Dravid and Kallis got between them.