India vs New Zealand | 2nd T20i | Jan 23, 2026 | 7 pm IST | Raipur

[vvvslaxman]

Just now, Need4Speed said:

This guy opened the bowling in asia t20 final and bowled well given his limited ability…in Pandya’s absence

 

Even thiugh batters line him up he is picking up wkts..

 

He is working hard in all aspects and need to be appreciated for it.

Gentle giant. Zero arrogance. Zero attitude. No anger, temper tantrum. 

[Need4Speed]

47 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

Things that need improvement

 

1) Under lights bowling slower balls will work against you as there is no grip. For some reason they were using lot  ot slower ones. Job of Morkel to tell these things

    Both Arsh and Rana were guilty of it.

 

2) Fielding. No need to elaborate

 

 

How many times we meed to tell Rana dont bowl slower balls..

If he still wants to bowl then learn some different variety skower one..split finger or use some other technique..

[tapandrun]

1 hour ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

 

Mitchell has v.sorted Odi game but he is not suited for T20is, there are multiple players like that , have posted about him and other like him when ppl are trying to make case for iyer in t20is.

 

And when ppl try to make case for s.iyer its the same thing, they have sorted game for Odis, they know their strong zone and play % cricket based on that.

 

In case of mitchell he is good down the ground and on pulls and sweep. He can use those shots in Odis with picking and choosing which balls or bowlers to go after.

And on off-side he does not have weakness but he can only play drives to get 4s. 

 

And when teams know this in t20 format they just need to bowl on offside and wait for so boundary-less balls.

His role is similar to rinku's rule for Ind , if there is a collapse and they need some1 to build partnership with low risk and timely boundaries here and there he is the one they will send in. and if everything goes alright he comes down the order and as he is good straight down the ground they are hoping him to get few 4/6 in last few over when overs are trying yorkers or fuller balls.

 

Batter can be v.good in Odis and play at high tempo but t20is is different. T20 requires constant 4/6s  and hopefully atleast 2 boundaries per over.

 

Think more and more ultra aggressive team will follow a similar model , to have an accumulator for just incase kind of scenario, not an accumulator at the top but at the bottom, so that they play less number of ball and team does not start defensive from ball-1 or the top but defensive game only comes in when there is mini collapse.

 

Think Aus also tried same thing with Smith when they were thinking of going ultra aggressive but smith was not suited for the style but then there were games/series here and there when there was a collapse so they tried him at #5/6

 

Edited January 23 by tapandrun

[vvvslaxman]

7 minutes ago, Need4Speed said:

How many times we meed to tell Rana dont bowl slower balls..

If he still wants to bowl then learn some different variety skower one..split finger or use some other technique..

He is using the easiest to pick type of slower balls. The off cutter one. More often than not these guys slow down a touch in their run up  which becomes a dead give away. Batsmen are ready. Prasidh does the same thing.  It is almost like they are using the strategy that was required for the last match here as well by default without realizing there was so much dew in this match  Bowling smartness where we need huge improvement. I feel safe when we win matches because of our bowling.

Edited January 23 by vvvslaxman

[Nikhil_cric]

2 hours ago, Gollum said:

Projected:

 

Aus vs India, Chepauk

 

Aus vs RSA, Kotla (same venue as group game of the 23 WC where RSA gave them a hiding)

 

Aus vs WI, Wankhede

 

Let us see. 

AUS vs RSA in 2023 was in Lucknow not Kotla iirc.

 

SA's lineup haven't done anything much in T20I cricket in the last 2 years. 

 

Windies got a 5-0 shellacking at home by Australia and Australia were actually rotating players. Last 11 matches between these two sides has been 10-1 to Australia. 

 

The only team apart from India that has a history of beating Australia in T20 cricket is England 

 

If we don't want them in the final, hope that England tops the other group and gives OZ a hard time in semis

 

 

[Chaos]

46 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

He is using the easiest to pick type of slower balls. The off cutter one. More often than not these guys slow down a touch in their run up  which becomes a dead give away. Batsmen are ready. Prasidh does the same thing.  It is almost like they are using the strategy that was required for the last match here as well by default without realizing there was so much dew in this match  Bowling smartness where we need huge improvement. I feel safe when we win matches because of our bowling.

Even @coffee_rules uncle would deposit those balls outta stadium in to pub he goes to after wife falls asleep. Ask @Nikhil_cric for pub name, he ownz it

[Gollum]

6 hours ago, Nikhil_cric said:

AUS vs RSA in 2023 was in Lucknow not Kotla iirc.

 

SA's lineup haven't done anything much in T20I cricket in the last 2 years. 

 

Windies got a 5-0 shellacking at home by Australia and Australia were actually rotating players. Last 11 matches between these two sides has been 10-1 to Australia. 

 

The only team apart from India that has a history of beating Australia in T20 cricket is England 

 

If we don't want them in the final, hope that England tops the other group and gives OZ a hard time in semis

You are right, it was Lucknow. Proper shellacking that, RSA won by 140 runs despite easing up at the end.  

[deepdynamo]

India have 8 overs of cheat code- Varun & Bumrah. Then, 4 solid overs of Kuldeep/Arshdeep ( though they are prone to be destroyed from time to time but can be matchwinner also ) and then 8 good supporting overs of Axar & Hardik.

 

SENA teams don't have this luxury- maybe one matchwinner bowler at best. Hazelwood from Aus or Rabada from SA ( less likely, never seen him effective in T20).

 

Infact, Pakistan with their spin trioka ( Nawaz, Abrar and Tariq) is potentially a bigger threat for India in SL spin conditions. But their batting is mediocre.

[Nikhil_cric]

1 hour ago, Gollum said:

You are right, it was Lucknow. Proper shellacking that, RSA won by 140 runs despite easing up at the end.  

Lucknow is a bat first pitch though. It was swinging and seaming a lot under lights a

and it usually does. 

 

It's a red soil track I think.  Even we beat England by 100 runs there when Bumrah and Shami made the ball talk and Kuldeep was getting massive turn despite the dew.