Black Caps in India
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This pitch already has a lot of variable bounce. We're going to need to score 95% of our runs in our first innings.
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Pretty sure last time Rosco was captain he played some rather handy knocks to win us the game in Sri Lanka. Same again please...
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Missed the end of the Indian innings, but the net result of that session is totally shit for us.
India get 77 runs and two opening batsmen.
We get 21 runs and three tailenders.
Latham and Guppy both pretty much gifting their wickets - you'd say Guppy's was a freak dismissal, except that he'd already been clipped on the elbow doing exactly the same thing.
I suppose I would have expected a Pavlovian reflex to being hit on the funnybone by a cricket ball propelled by a test class seam bowler - that you would have been reasonably keen to get your fucking elbow out of the way the next time - but I am not a highly tuned athlete totally grooved in my technique!
Latham - well, if you were allowed to review, I probably would have. Latham was looking to leg glance but too late. Probably clipping leg stump, but maybe not - there was plenty of angle.
I've decided the TV commentators are highly unreliable in their responses to umpiring decisions - they'll agree with the umpire unless he's blatantly wrong. Late last night they blithely noted that Jadeja got an inside edge on a plumb lbw. I'm pretty sure the reason the umpire didn't give it was he thought it possibly pitched outside leg (again I'm pretty sure it didn't). We got no forensic examination of the inside edge, but I was certainly far from convinced that there was one. The cricinfo commentator agrees with my conclusion and made no mention of an inside edge.
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Henry to Jadeja, no run, gone, is it? Looked very close, perfect follow-up to all those wide ones. This pitched on leg stump, back of a length, straightened into Jadeja, and kept a little low as he jumped in his crease and played across it. Umpire may have thought it pitched outside leg
