NZ tour of England | 3 tests | Lord's , Oval, Trent Bridge | June 04 - June 29

[Gollum]

 

@Laaloo be like

 

[Gollum]

This decade, Aus, RSA, NZ have all been better than India in tests. 

[The Realist]

Eng lost 7 out of last 9 tests.

 

Drawing 2-2 v Eng was pretty lame in hindsight and even that was only due to Eng choking badly.

 

Gambhir as test coach is shockingly bad.

[Gollum]

@Tillu predicted NZ series win on June 2, only one to do so at the start.@mishraji's vote came in a bit late but still kudos

 

Root, not even 1 100. Congrats @tweaker

 

Also have to say, Rachin was marginally better, his 94 here was series-winning.

[Lone Wolf]

6 minutes ago, The Realist said:

NZ win match and series.

 

Who is the worst test coach - Gambhir or McCullum?

GG by a lot, Mccullum still has away series win in BazBall era

[Gollum]

7 minutes ago, The Realist said:

NZ win match and series.

 

Who is the worst test coach - Gambhir or McCullum?

GG took over the greatest ever home side and made it a joke.

 

Baz took over a struggling side, changed the template, enjoyed some success but nosedived hard.

 

GG is the worse test coach till now, he has no philossophy and backs donkeys over red ball performers. 

[Gollum]

Fitting that NZ, Aus and RSA are the WTC champions in the 2020s. Long way to go for this Indian side. 

[The Realist]

1 minute ago, Lone Wolf said:

GG by a lot, Mccullum still has away series win in BazBall era

 

Looks like it

 

[Gollum]

First marquee test series of this year over @Lone Wolf

 

Still to come:

 

Aus in RSA

Ind in NZ

Eng in RSA

NZ in Aus

[putrevus]

Gambhir's template in tests will never succeed, he has made bits and pieces players core members of his team.

 

AS NZ proved beating England in England with this crapy bowling atttack is not hard.

Edited June 29 by putrevus

[Lone Wolf]

13 minutes ago, Gollum said:

First marquee test series of this year over @Lone Wolf

 

Still to come:

 

Aus in RSA

Ind in NZ

Eng in RSA

NZ in Aus

Aus in SA would be quality...  That's the one.

India in NZ would be a mere 2 test series with NZ being overwhelming favorites.  Clearly the worst series in the roster.

 

WI v Pak and India v SL would be entertaining ones.

Edited June 29 by Lone Wolf

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, Lone Wolf said:

Aus in SA would be quality...  That's the one.

India in NZ would be a mere 2 test series with NZ being overwhelming favorites.  Clearly the worst series in the roster.

 

WI v Pak and India v SL would be entertaining ones.

Entertaining yes, but realistically only NZ, RSA, Aus, Ind (least chance out of the 4) can make the WTC F. More stakes. 

[Lone Wolf]

Scary fast bowling depth in NZ cricket right now.  If they get 2-3 half decent 40 averaging batters they will be world beaters 

[nitinbwj]

3 minutes ago, Lone Wolf said:

Scary fast bowling depth in NZ cricket right now.  If they get 2-3 half decent 40 averaging batters they will be world beaters 

Don't worry..we have Donkey Prasidh, World Beater Reddy, Marvellous Sundar

[SecondSlip]

@Gollum
@Lone Wolf 

TTFs Karun Nair & Shardul Thakur cost us the England series last year. 
This England team is very beatable but these 2 proven failures screwed us big time! 

[putrevus]

27 minutes ago, SecondSlip said:

@Gollum
@Lone Wolf 

TTFs Karun Nair & Shardul Thakur cost us the England series last year. 
This England team is very beatable but these 2 proven failures screwed us big time! 

Thakur is not TTF, he was not used properly the captain.He did not trust him enough. he was not picked in right matches too.

Edited June 29 by putrevus

[vvvslaxman]

Root is going to take everything out on Pakistan.

[vvvslaxman]

11 minutes ago, SecondSlip said:

@Gollum
@Lone Wolf 

TTFs Karun Nair & Shardul Thakur cost us the England series last year. 
This England team is very beatable but these 2 proven failures screwed us big time! 

Thakur played only one match. We lost a winnable test by collapsing 41/7 and 59/6 in the first test. After he was dropped scoreline was won 2-1. We could have won 3-0 but for some poor chase attempt at Lords. Once the ball was 20 overs old, it absolutely did nothing. But by the time we had already lost 5 wickets. Even Bumrah was ungetouttable until he threw his wicket awya.

Edited June 29 by vvvslaxman

[Lone Wolf]

18 minutes ago, SecondSlip said:

@Gollum
@Lone Wolf 

TTFs Karun Nair & Shardul Thakur cost us the England series last year. 
This England team is very beatable but these 2 proven failures screwed us big time! 

Yes, Thakur can't land the ball on a spot, relies on fluke wickets has v poor fitness.  Needlessly picked.  Still understandable why they went with him coz of his past exploits in Oval Test.

 

Karun Nair was a brain dead call.. perhaps I was the only one in ICF to call out that bringing that guy back once again is slap and matter of shame in a supposedly cricket crazy nation.  It's like Zimbabwe calling Brendan Taylor to come back but were not Zim. 

Could have picked any youngster from the domestic heck should have started with Jurel even.  He would have made it count on a flat Headingley track

Edited June 29 by Lone Wolf

[The Realist]

1 hour ago, nitinbwj said:

Don't worry..we have Donkey Prasidh, World Beater Reddy, Marvellous Sundar

 

Don't forget Full Intensity Kamboj (that debut with gentle medium trundling was embarrassing) who they are trying to make into a first-choice trundler.