Black Caps v India
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@Chris-B India's missing its best bowler, and its 1st choice all-rounder who bats #6, but still think they are more likely to make minced kabobs out of the black sheep.
I wish there was a 3 test tour somewhere in here instead of just hit and giggle fest. But I guess the NZ board decided to prioritize LOI cricket and the $$$ bonanza instead.
@newsjunkie I believe the lack of tests was dictated by the BCCI.
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yep, plus the start time at 3pm for a better viewing for Indian audiences. David White said they negotiated the $$ for this tour about 1.5-2 years ago, which was luckily during our upward trend in form so we got a pretty good deal by all accounts. It does suck we aren't playing them in any tests, but with the WC around the corner snaking 5 ODI's versus the best team in the world isn't all bad.
Picking 3-2 to us and really hoping we can start out strong while they are getting a handle on conditions etc.
Guess a few (most) of our guys will also be thinking about this being a perfect IPL audition too! even if it is ODI's rather than 20/20.
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@newsjunkie I believe the lack of tests was dictated by the BCCI.
@LABCAT said in Black Caps v India:
@newsjunkie I believe the lack of tests was dictated by the BCCI.
Uh, you believe wrong. Home board controls scheduling, touring board only controls availability timeframe.
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@Chris-B India's missing its best bowler, and its 1st choice all-rounder who bats #6, but still think they are more likely to make minced kabobs out of the black sheep.
I wish there was a 3 test tour somewhere in here instead of just hit and giggle fest. But I guess the NZ board decided to prioritize LOI cricket and the $$$ bonanza instead.
@newsjunkie Yeah - I'd be less bullish if your guys had Bumrah, especially.
But we were competitive against you in India a year ago, when you had Bumrah and Pandya, so I reckon at home we've got a pretty reasonable chance!
However, the game is not played on paper...
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@newsjunkie Yeah - I'd be less bullish if your guys had Bumrah, especially.
But we were competitive against you in India a year ago, when you had Bumrah and Pandya, so I reckon at home we've got a pretty reasonable chance!
However, the game is not played on paper...
@Chris-B Fair point. I'm hoping for a closely fought series as well. Better prep for the WC.
I wouldn't even mind if the Indian team got beat here, will expose the weak links in the team tactics nicely.
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@LABCAT said in Black Caps v India:
@newsjunkie I believe the lack of tests was dictated by the BCCI.
Uh, you believe wrong. Home board controls scheduling, touring board only controls availability timeframe.
@newsjunkie said in Black Caps v India:
@LABCAT said in Black Caps v India:
@newsjunkie I believe the lack of tests was dictated by the BCCI.
Home board controls scheduling, touring board only controls availability timeframe.
If that was true we wouldn't have T20's starting at 8PM and ODI's starting at 3PM.
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First off, those are 'prime time' slots for sports on TV in most countries. Where I live, in Trumpistan, 8 pm is the golden slot for any sporting event. Highly sought after, and generate maximum TV revenue.
Secondly, even if those times were somehow chosen for maximum Indian TV ratings, did you consider the possibility that it would be the TV and Ad companies that bid for the rights to broadcast the games in India that probably asked the NZ board to select such timings?
The BCCI can be blamed for many things, but caring for their fans and using their clout for the same isn't one of them.
But why ruin a good whinge on the evil BCCI with silly things such as facts.
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@newsjunkie said in Black Caps v India:
@LABCAT said in Black Caps v India:
@newsjunkie I believe the lack of tests was dictated by the BCCI.
Home board controls scheduling, touring board only controls availability timeframe.
If that was true we wouldn't have T20's starting at 8PM and ODI's starting at 3PM.
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Guppy got Shami'd. Noyce. Very Noyce.
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Shami with a pearler. Munro at sea and we are two down.
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Boycott's mum could have driven a car through that Munro gate...
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@Gunner Guppy deserved to be out twice in that innings...and he's coming off a (I think) golden duck in domestic T20.
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@Mokey What we've seen vs Sri Lanka - plus 62* and 0 in domestic T20.
Not that much.
Pretty disappointing, because he should have been jump started into good form.
Two awful shots in his brief innings today - well, one was non-shot and the other was nowhere near playing the line of the ball.
