New Zealand tour of Australia , Test Series Thread

[express bowling]

9 hours ago, MCcricket said:

Combination of his action, shorter height and being a left armer and being aggressive, similar to Shami, ball gets to you quite quicker and of a length it bounces

 

Thing is ... Shami is about 7 kph to 8 kph quicker than Wagner.  Don't think he would have been as hostile as Wagner if he was bowling 127 k to 137 k like Wagner.

[SK_IH]

Unbelievably poor from NZ. I think they just dismantle against Aus, they are not this bad. They can't beat them even at home. However @Stan AF is right, this series was hard to follow as a neutral,could bear couple of hours of this series. Now I know what neutrals must have felt in the Indian home season.

Also, WTC sucks, what a glorified gimmick.

[express bowling]

10 minutes ago, SK_IH said:

 

Also, WTC sucks, what a glorified gimmick.

 

Why  ?

[SK_IH]

13 minutes ago, express bowling said:

 

Why  ?

What's the point ? No competition, no fun. The problem with the format, just too hard to follow over a long period of time. 

Also the format, a final to decide a WTC winner is making mockery of the test format. It should have been a 3 match series ideally. If you are investing so much money and time into something, invests some more to make it worthwhile. In an ideal world, undisputed WTC winner should be decided between two teams playing home, away and at neutral. Obviously, conditions may not allow that but it will be better than this gimmick.

[Stan AF]

Just make 500 already and declare.

[Stan AF]

1 hour ago, gakgupta said:

Only team which is competent in australian conditions is india....

 

India have the hit the deck bowlers and thats what will work in australia....

 

NZ have ferguson & Henry and should have utilized them...

 

Only certain pitches in australia favours swing...and that too on certain days.......only those matches southee / boult should be used...

Our Team Management should note this and not entertain taking deepak chahar and bhuvaneshwar to Australia.

[The Dark Horse]

Wagner gets Smith again wow

[Ankit_sharma03]

 

Bunny 

[FischerTal]

Something for Shami to replicate. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

 

 

 

[Stan AF]

Impressive. But Mcgrath had to bowl in tandem with Warne.

[express bowling]

32 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

 

 

 

 

 

I keep saying that we have lots of potential greats among the young pacers playing these days.  

 

If they can stay fit  ... we will will talk about the pacers of the late 2010s and early 2020s for a long long time after that.

[Ankit_sharma03]

 

 

 

 

[G_B_]

I will tell you one thing, india better not rely on winning or drawing any tests in aus for world test championship 

[ganeshran]

6 minutes ago, G_B_ said:

I will tell you one thing, india better not rely on winning or drawing any tests in aus for world test championship 

Yeah, from the looks of it, even being competitive in Australia would be an achievement. If bumrah Shami click we could claw back a test but I don't see us winning a series there against this quality lineup 

[FischerTal]

12 minutes ago, G_B_ said:

I will tell you one thing, india better not rely on winning or drawing any tests in aus for world test championship 

4 minutes ago, ganeshran said:

Yeah, from the looks of it, even being competitive in Australia would be an achievement. If bumrah Shami click we could claw back a test but I don't see us winning a series there against this quality lineup 

 

 

we just won a series there last year when starc hazelwood and cummins were bowling...... it would have been a 3-1 series if not for the rain in Sydney.

Edited December 28, 2019 by FischerTal

[G_B_]

They were still reeling from sandpaper gate with some new blood

 

This is a more settled unit now. 

 

I still back india to win in india v aus without much fuss. But i wlll not rule out an indian whitewash in aus either

[FischerTal]

1 minute ago, G_B_ said:

They were still reeling from sandpaper gate with some new blood

 

This is a more settled unit now. 

 

I still back india to win in india v aus without much fuss. But i wlll not rule out an indian whitewash in aus either

they beat us 4-0 even with the fab 4 despite having bowlers like Hilfenhaus and Siddle back in 2011. Lets give our batting credit where it is due. I don't think sandpaper gate has anything to do with the quality of bowling. we successfully negated both starc and cummins. Pujara was key for us and hell be key next year as well. Also, our bowlers are just as good as theirs and now hopefully kohli and Shastri have the intelligence to blood in Saini in Tests, where he will perform much better given his FC record.

[express bowling]

44 minutes ago, FischerTal said:

 

 

we just won a series there last year when starc hazelwood and cummins were bowling...... it would have been a 3-1 series if not for the rain in Sydney.

 

Exactly  !

 

And our fast bowlers, Bumrah, Shami and Ishant,  bowled better than this trio in their own back yard.

 

 

[putrevus]

India faced full battery of their fast bowlers.Even if Warner and Smith had played we would have won, our bowlers were dynamic and if not for Rain we should have won the series 3-1.


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