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What are your predictions for the second test match ??

gaurav92

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The Napier's McLean Park, should give some assistance to medium swing/seam bowlers and later 3 days will be all spinners. So I would bank on OBrien, Munna, ZK for first 3 days. There will be 1-2 centuries and 3 50+ scores in the first two days itself. Average indian score should be arround 450 @35. Plus they need to score way above 3 RPO to spare time for spinners to bowl NZ out in the 2nd innings. NZ should be arround @28-30. Only question is how quickly Indians can get them out in the first innings. Even a lead of 100 runs in the first innings will see the result. The match will be played all 5 days... Munna/ZK arround 6-7 wkts, HS 8, DV -7, JP 3-4, IS-2-3. Indian win by 3-4 wkts or 100+runs. W/o first innings lead, it could be a draw.

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We should win this too. Our team wears such a settled look, with everyone knowing what their respective roles are. For NZ, they don’t even know what their eleven is going to be. There is a lot of confusion about the respective roles of individual players (James Franklin for example, bats above Vettori, even though Vettori looks the more accomplished batsman.. ) The great thing about our first test win is that we did it without any significant contribution from our most destructive test batsman of the last 15 months – Sehwag. Imagine what if he contributes too… :D And poor Andy Moles, he keeps trying as many ‘mind-games’ that he nicked from some internet website as possible, to thwart the Indians.. When we first landed in NZ, he tried to overplay India’s dominance by calling us the best team in the world. It seemed to work, coz we lost the T20s, but it was more due to our batsman getting their strategies wrong. Once they got hammered in the ODI series, he went into the test series saying ‘Well, we’ve played 6 matches in this tour and its been 3-3’… That didn’t work, we walloped them in the first test. Now, he’s talking about having a pitch in Napier that will assist swing bowling alluding to how Indians are generally in trouble against such bowling, completely ignoring the fact that in the first test, it was our pacemen who totally outperformed Kiwi pacemen in slightly helpful conditions and our batsman looked totally comfortable against all their bowlers. If NZ spend half of the time they spend on cooking up these useless mind-games on things like training and strategy, they probably stand a better chance. :laugh:

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