Black Caps tour of India - 2024
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Also like to add. Fuck settling for 2-0 or 2-1
Let’s finish the job and fucking white wash them 3 zip -
@Virgil said in Black Caps tour of India:
This must rank up there as one of if not the biggest test series upset of all time?
We have been basically shit the last year or so, we were embarrassed in Sri Lanka just before this series. Kane is back at home, Southee fell on his sword as captain, Satnav probably wouldn’t have even made the tour if Michael Bracewell was fit..
All that in a mad cricket nation that has only lost at home 4 times since 2010 and hadn’t lost a series since 2012.
Not only did we win the first 2 tests but it wasn’t even close. And on such differing pitches.Cricinfo will be talking about this for decades to come
Yeah there was a bit of dramatic over the top posting on here during both tests but in the end both were pretty comfortable victories.
Throw in the WTC final in 2021, do India choke in big games against us ?
Their big guns with imposing records ( Ashwin, Jadeja and Bumrah ) did fuck all against us.
You’d back one or two of them ( particularly at home ) to absolutely dominate but it never happened.
The much vaunted batting fired in one out of four innings. A fucken DISASTER in the first.
Still pinching myself. I honestly expected a couple of innings defeats in a row. Instead we were the ones who wrapped things up in quick succession.
…..and no, I can’t off the top of my head think of a bigger test cricket upset.
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Also like to add. Fuck settling for 2-0 or 2-1
Let’s finish the job and fucking white wash them 3 zip@Virgil said in Black Caps tour of India:
Also like to add. Fuck settling for 2-0 or 2-1
Let’s finish the job and fucking white wash them 3 zip…….and from there a damn good thrashing of our colonial masters who have the good grace to tour for a three test series.
Their fans are bloody good value though.
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@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
@MN5 Imran never bowled any spin. Sir Gazza's average potentially compromised by bowling enormous variation that no-one else has replicated.
I don't think anyone is close.
Yeah Imran was closest of the four all rounders of the 80s. Paddles a better bowler but Imran quite a bit better with the bat. Beefy started amazingly but petered out…..and Kapil just played a lot to get what he got.
From what I’ve heard Sobers was an extraordinary batsman but that bowling record ? Ok, very handy for a team to have but really ? 235 wickets in 93 tests ? Chris Martin got 233 in 71…….
@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
From what I’ve heard Sobers was an extraordinary batsman but that bowling record ? Ok, very handy for a team to have but really ? 235 wickets in 93 tests ? Chris Martin got 233 in 71…….
um Who did Martin have bowling at the other end?
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@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
From what I’ve heard Sobers was an extraordinary batsman but that bowling record ? Ok, very handy for a team to have but really ? 235 wickets in 93 tests ? Chris Martin got 233 in 71…….
um Who did Martin have bowling at the other end?
@dogmeat said in Black Caps tour of India:
@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
From what I’ve heard Sobers was an extraordinary batsman but that bowling record ? Ok, very handy for a team to have but really ? 235 wickets in 93 tests ? Chris Martin got 233 in 71…….
um Who did Martin have bowling at the other end?
Bondy, Cairnsy, Dan the Man and a bunch of chumps
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Batting first in Mumbai, another toss win.
Henry and Sodhi come into the side. Southee and Santner out.
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We may struggle a bit without Santner in this test, which is not a sentence I ever thought I would write
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That was always out only height may have been an issue but it looked out on impact.
Again no back foot movement Conway got stranded on the crease.@Chris said in Black Caps tour of India:
That was always out only height may have been an issue but it looked out on impact.
Again no back foot movement Conway got stranded on the crease.I think one of Latham or Ravindra need to go big in this test now. They seem to be the batsmen in form.
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Same delivery Ravindra received that took Latham wkt both lost their off stump didn’t read the one going away played for the straight one.
@Chris said in Black Caps tour of India:
Same delivery Ravindra received that took Latham wkt both lost their off stump didn’t read the one going away played for the straight one.
Washington is really deceptive - he's got others that look almost identical going straight through.
Had a couple of dismissals very similar in the last test as well.
Looking easily their most dangerous bowler, which is saying something!
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@Chris said in Black Caps tour of India:
Same delivery Ravindra received that took Latham wkt both lost their off stump didn’t read the one going away played for the straight one.
Washington is really deceptive - he's got others that look almost identical going straight through.
Had a couple of dismissals very similar in the last test as well.
Looking easily their most dangerous bowler, which is saying something!
@Chris-B said in Black Caps tour of India:
@Chris said in Black Caps tour of India:
Same delivery Ravindra received that took Latham wkt both lost their off stump didn’t read the one going away played for the straight one.
Washington is really deceptive - he's got others that look almost identical going straight through.
Had a couple of dismissals very similar in the last test as well.
Looking easily their most dangerous bowler, which is saying something!
Yeah he bowls a nice line to suck you in then takes it away.
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Young is batting well.
Commentators speculating on him pushing for a permanent spot if he plays well here.
At home, I'm thinking it would likely be at the expense of Phillips/Santner. Conway probably done enough to retain his spot and I can't see them dropping Mitch Jr.
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Like the 2nd test, if we can get to around 300 then we have enough to put them under pressure. Santner will be gutted he doesn't get to bowl on this pitch as well to further improve his record.
