Black Caps tour of India - 2024
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So which to watch and which to flick over to check the score - the cricket or the rugby?
Sorry about your NPC lads!
@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
So which to watch and which to flick over to check the score - the cricket or the rugby?
Sorry about your NPC lads!
Doesn't the cricket start just as the NPC final finishes?
I've liked the strategy that the NZ batters have had for the spinners. It is almost a paint by numbers of sweep, reverse sweep or come down the wicket mixed with defence. Has been effective so far at disrupting their line and length and we've managed a very healthy strike rate without too many risks.
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@No-Quarter Are you going to hire a Secretary to post on both for you?
@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
@No-Quarter Are you going to hire a Secretary to post on both for you?
Perhaps I could get my 11 year old to cover the rugby thread. The instructions would be simple: bemoan the number of Crusaders players selected, have a crack at Razor for favouring them, and praise the performance of any Hurricanes or Blues player
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
@No-Quarter Are you going to hire a Secretary to post on both for you?
Perhaps I could get my 11 year old to cover the rugby thread. The instructions would be simple: bemoan the number of Crusaders players selected, have a crack at Razor for favouring them, and praise the performance of any Hurricanes or Blues player
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
@No-Quarter Are you going to hire a Secretary to post on both for you?
Perhaps I could get my 11 year old to cover the rugby thread. The instructions would be simple: bemoan the number of Crusaders players selected, have a crack at Razor for favouring them, and praise the performance of any Hurricanes or Blues player
I've been forced to watch enough cooking shows, that I feel the technique is to fall back on the, "Here's some I prepared earlier....".
"Fuck you.....
Blundell, Santner, TIMMY, Asafo, Sevu, ref, Japan, Rohit haha, DMac, TIMMY!!!, Mitch and your father - catch the ball FFS, Ryan, Patty, Razor FFS, Virat - yes!, India, Eddie -yeah!
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The bad news is we haven't got as many as we wanted. The good news is the pitch is turning a fucking mile even on day 3.
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Ajaz shouldn't be hitting out when a set Phillips is at the other end
@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:
Ajaz shouldn't be hitting out when a set Phillips is at the other end
Blundell and Santner should have showed more application. I don't know why they felt the need for aerial shots
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Thinking more on Santer's first innings performance, he's always been an accurate spinner that doesn't turn it much. On a pitch that turns as much as this one, he suddenly becomes an accurate spinner that turns it quite a bit, which makes him a much more challenging proposition.
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@No-Quarter said in Black Caps tour of India:
Ajaz shouldn't be hitting out when a set Phillips is at the other end
Blundell and Santner should have showed more application. I don't know why they felt the need for aerial shots
@canefan
Needed to get over the 400 mark just to mentally get in the Indian batsmen’s heads ..concerned we have left the door ajar -
Well 400 would have shut the door, 359 has left the door ajar. That said, if India win this, they will deserve it, the pitch is very tricky to bat on.
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Honestly, we should have enough.
India will need to score the third highest 4th innings score ever, in India - to win this - and the commentators are saying how much more difficult this is than the pitch in Chennai where they won in 2008.
It will take a couple of extraordinary innings to get them home - and probably close to four sessions, so the pitch should continue to wear.
