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Match Thread- IND vs NZ 1st test Feb 21-25 2020, Wellington


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This is just glorious. I hated listening to how good the commentators thought India were at home and the players acting like they were superstars.
 
I will repeat again. Australia will literally tear the Indian batting lineup next summer. This NZ was just bashed by Australia. India wont know what hit them.
 
The Test Championship is a joke.
 
The lessons India can learn from all of this is that they need to continually look to improve the team. Team India fails to do this and therefore sticks with same team.
 
Controversially, I would have had KL and Gill in this team. KL has had form and success and given what the batting lineup has done so far, I dont think its possibly to do any worse.
 
Im going to be bold here and say that our bowlers are going to struggle here. Bumrah, Shami and Sharma will struggle when they bowl.
 
Hope Im wrong.
 
Its a shame that ...you had to say this....

One bad game and you are all over the team
...

India did very well in SA.....

Moderately well in Eng...even the scoreline doesn't show that.......

Did superb in Australia...

One bad game in NZ and you are upset....

This team is miles ahead of what we had in 2000s ...

And we haven't lost the game yet....there are still 4 days to go....

Our pace trio has continuously taking 20 wickets in most of the matches.....they might do the same here also.....

If the pitch becomes flat, then they might struggle.....but if the pitch remains the same, then we have enough firepower to get them cheaply...

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Pujara always play once in a blue moon . Infact  baring that  mammoth AUS series last year and  first SAF series  I don't recall any   decent SENA +WI performance from him. .He has till now played 10 SENA + WI  series. This is his 11th.  Holding such a vital position and  performing such poorly affects team performances so badly. 

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, gakgupta said:

This team is miles ahead of what we had in 2000s ...

sorry, that's a myth Shastri would like us to believe. I am not one for comparisons between eras - but that team had better batting + Kumble was better in SENA than Ashwin/Jadeja + more resilience, but this team has better pace bowling.

 

Record-wise, the period from 2006-07 to 2010-11 was better in SENA away series for us than what we have seen from 2018 onwards:

  • Lost narrowly in SA 1-2 (we choked in 2nd innings of final test while setting target)
  • Won 1-0 in England
  • Lost narrowly in Aus 1-2 against a strong Aus team (thanks to Bucknor's s**t umpiring in Sydney)
  • Won 1-0 in NZ (after 33 years)
  • Drew 1-1 in SA against a very strong SA team 

All in all, our win-loss performance in SENA in this period was 5-5: 2 series wins, 2 series losses, 1 draw. We also won in Windies after 35 years in 2006 against a still decent Lara-led Windies while our own team lacked some big players.

 

Right now, we are at 1-2 (SA loss), 1-4 (Eng loss), 2-1 (Aus win), i.e. 4-7 overall.

 

This NZ series, followed by Aus, Eng & SA series in nxt 2 years will give us complete picture.

 

All SENA teams, barring NZ perhaps, are weaker compared to what they were in 2006-10 period, so logically speaking our record now should be better than the 5-5 win-loss% in 2006-10 period 

Edited by Cricwala
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One thing I have noticed is, all the players currently don't have decisive footwork against swing,i agree that these are tough conditions, but we have seen  earlier guys not necessarily Dravid or Tendulkar, were decisive in their footwork and use to play with soft hands, also in such conditions leaving the ball is also aggressive cricket, take Kohli for example, he chased a ball he easily could have left or aggarwal ,vihari and Shaw were poor footwork,one has to play late to counter swing and use depth of crease, a guy like  Jamieson or southie aren't exactly express so should have been countered relatively better, I am not criticizing the team, but saying that swing has been our bane, but we havent done a lot to remove the  bad habits .

Posted

Kohli went fishing there. That was flipping too wide to be chasing in these conditions.  Anyways, I expected that sort of a dismissal from him.

 

For an 'important' series, why is this only a 2 match series?? Pity

Posted

Pujara and Vihari got good balls. Poor shots from Shaw Kohli and Agerwal to get out.

 

One thing I will say about Pujara. Feel that he needs to be a bit more positive. Lets the bowlers bowl to him.

 

It was a good toss to win in overcast conditions...

 

 

Posted
8 hours ago, Stan AF said:

Just saw Kohli's dismissal. Chasing another wide one unnecessarily. :wall:

Now imagine if thats how Pant got out. He would be torn apart by everyone.

 

Kohli's chasing such a wide delivery was horrible decision making,

 

Apparently he has gone something like 20 international innings without scoring a century now.

Posted
13 minutes ago, Laaloo said:

Chew toys bhogle

This guy is the biggest i*iot who comes up with very weird things just like Manjerkar.Who said Pant is bad behind wickets.

Posted
28 minutes ago, putrevus said:

This guy is the biggest i*iot who comes up with very weird things just like Manjerkar.Who said Pant is bad behind wickets.

Something must have irked bhogle. He also tweeted something else but deleted it later on. What a loser!!!

Posted

Kohli is still in T20 mode lunging and chasing a wide one to edge. Back in 2014 mode with Clouderson. Pujara and Vihari get peaches, Kohli and Mayank rank bad shots, while baby Shaw is not international test class, school boy dismissal in big boys league. Kya technique hain uska. 

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