5th T20I, India tour of New Zealand at Mount Maunganui

[vvvslaxman]

Rahul missed out on another 50. He has to make his starts count. He is in supreme touch.

[SRT100]

Hitman is still there. Hopefully fireworks to finish the innings. India really lack power hitters in this lineup.

[Suhaan]

22 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Dude Gill had 2 chances. Pant has so many chances. Played tests, ODIs, played as a specialist bat, so many T20s. How can you compare Gill with Pant. 

Dude of course Pant has got so many chances but he has also won you two matches by his brutal hitting a kind og innings we only dreamt of from our former so called great keeper in t20s,t20s demand power hitting,sure he had issues with game awareness but that comes attached with a young kid like Pant,we should have persisted with him,he surely would have developed by now,im not against the likes of Samson as he too would be going through that same pressure from TM,we are blessed with so many quality guys,problem is they are serving pals only

[SRT100]

5 minutes ago, jf1gp_1 said:

NZ seems worth visiting. Anyone been there ?

Youre better off going to Australia if youre going to spend that kind of money.

[Norman]

KL *s up another start. His middle over play is bang average esp against spin. 

[Austin 3:!6]

When in form, make it count Rahul. A cute little 40 is fine but you must learn to convert these to 100. This attitude is what seperates Kohli from rest.

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[SRT100]

1 minute ago, Suhaan said:

Dude of course Pant has got so many chances but he has also won you two matches by his brutal hitting a kind og innings we only dreamt of from our former so called great keeper in t20s,t20s demand power hitting,sure he had issues with game awareness but that comes attached with a young kid like Pant,we should have persisted with him,he surely would have developed by now,im not against the likes of Samson as he too would be going through that same pressure from TM,we are blessed with so many quality guys,problem is they are serving pals only

Correct. Pant at least has shown he can get a start and actually get through the tough phase of a game. He just needs to build on those innings.

[SRT100]

1 minute ago, Norman said:

KL *s up another start. His middle over play is bang average esp against spin. 

 

Teams will start bowling spin to him to begin the innings. Both he and Hitman are susceptible to spinners.

[Forward Defence]

5 minutes ago, Straight Drive said:

Is even  one out of 4 boundary (Straight Down,behind keeper, 2 square directions) is more than 70 metres.

They are not showing it on TV but even visually it looks bigger than the other venues

[Jimmy Cliff]

FAO all the posters who will undoubtedly make "another middling score for Rahul" posts, he is the leading run-scorer in this series by a margin.

[Stan AF]

Iyer give strike to rohit.

[Straight Drive]

1 minute ago, Forward Defence said:

They are not showing it on TV but even visually it looks bigger than the other venues

Better than other Kiwi venues would still be msotlyaround 60 metres with probably the maximum boundary being 67 at some odd angle.

[vvvslaxman]

Iyer is looking for singles? why? Come on hit man. He was too consumed with rotating the strike

[Sgattick10]

Iyer is killing Rohit's momentum 

[Stan AF]

Good comeback by kiwis mainly keeping iyer on strike.

[vvvslaxman]

Hope Iyer doesn't get out now. Dubey will come and waste a few balls.

[SrinjayDutta]

Shreyas iyer single handedly lost the match for us.

[Mosher]

Iyer needs to get going now. 

[WC2011INDIA]

Rahul does well in the first 6-8 overs and then gets out/throws away.

Not a long innings type player.

[vvvslaxman]

Finally connected one.