How much lead do we need?

[achilles]

I reckon we can declare once Sachin reaches his 100..... which would be by tomorrow evening. Lets hope badlight doesn't stop play.

[Lord]

dont need to bat on day 4,I think we should look to bat all day tomorrow only or even 5-10 overs to NZ to bat. they'll defitely kick on as it goes on. a lead of 300 should be fine however its too far off,anything can happen even now

[ZodiaC]

dont need to bat on day 4,I think we should look to bat all day tomorrow only or even 5-10 overs to NZ to bat. they'll defitely kick on as it goes on. a lead of 300 should be fine however its too far off,anything can happen even now

You serious? :giggle:

[Lord]

You serious? :giggle:

yeah,remember we lost 5-15 to same team,the new ball is 2 overs old only.nothing can be taken for granted,discussing wen we declare is very much away we might get bowled out

[ZodiaC]

yeah' date='remember we lost 5-15 to same team,the new ball is 2 overs old only.nothing can be taken for granted,discussing wen we declare is very much away we might get bowled out[/quote'] We've got off to a great start, no pressure, pitch looks good for batting. Totally different scenario.

[SachDan]

I reckon we can declare once Sachin reaches his 100..... which would be by tomorrow evening. Lets hope badlight doesn't stop play.

dude, Sachin is batting on 57,he will easily make a ton if he stays till lunch. We can declare once he reaches double century and with a lead of more than 350 runs :--D

[achilles]

dude' date=' Sachin is batting on 57,he will easily make a ton if he stays till lunch. We can declare once he reaches double century and with a lead of more than 350 runs :--D[/quote'] Lets hope we witness a Sachin special in Viru time :two_thumbs_up:

[Raghav_12]

India will score around 300 tomorrow and that will give us a lead of 400 and then Indian bowler can go for kill in remaining two days. However NZ players will try to slow down things with negative bowling and 300 in a day will not be that easy. If we have enough runs on board, we may give some 10 overs to our bowlers at the end of day.

[CSK Fan]

if SRT and RD bat for 50 over more tommarow than we can not going to score 300 in day.

Dude how many test matches have you watched? No serioulsy?

[kabira]

game is in the bag.

[Rajiv]

Let Sachin and Rahul play conventional cricket, I am not sure what slowness ppl are referring too, it ws the rush of blood we lost the advantage in the 1st test too. We already have a lead of 99, bat whole day tommorow to score around 300-320 and then pace up on Day 4 till lunch, lead of 550 - uske baad NZ ko leke aayo

[Jersey #10]

w/e we can get by the end of the third day!

[Desi Cartman]

w/e we can get by the end of the third day!

:dito: I think even 275 ahead is enough. In worst case scenario we might have to bat again and chase 80-90 runs which should be ok.

[Laaloo]

Ideally, we should bat at least 80 overs today and get about 275-300 runs and send in NZ to bat for 10 overs. Good thing about the position that we're in is that, even if we do somehow collapse, we should have about 200 runs lead by then.

[nballa]

how about 700? will that be enough for you? i mean we are not out there in the field playing. might as well throw some numbers out there while munching chips on the couch.

[gaurav92]

We must declare an hour before the end of the day today.That would be ideal, even if tehre is a bad weather, I don't expect NZ to bat out for 2 days.If we stretch too long and if Rain affects the game, we can be denied a win once again.So a lead of 250-260 today would be ideal for declaration. But Dhoni is a defensive cap, and will declare only after getting 400+ runs on the board,and that means after lunch tomorrow.

[Ram]

As much as we can manage in day 3. How is the weather for Nagpur in the next couple of days? It'd be shame if we couldnt close out because we ran out of time due to overs lost due to weather.

[fineleg]

We've got off to a great start' date=' no pressure, pitch looks good for batting. Totally different scenario.[/quote'] So, Zodiac - did you expect the scoreboard to read 309-4 on morning of day-3?

[Ranjha]

Let Sachin and Rahul play conventional cricket' date=' I am not sure what slowness ppl are referring too, it ws the rush of blood we lost the advantage in the 1st test too. We already have a lead of 99, bat whole day tommorow to score around 300-320 and then pace up on Day 4 till lunch, lead of 550 - uske baad NZ ko leke aayo[/quote'] Ok there...Dravid listened to u....he has slowed down more...it's like we are following on and need to bat sessions.

[asterix]

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