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India 'A' to tour New Zealand in September 2012

Sidhoni

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NZ A XI: GH Worker, TWM Latham, NT Broom, DG Brownlie, RA Young © (wk), LJ Woodcock, SR Wells, N Wagner, TS Nethula, BJ Arnel, AJ McKay, India A XI: Abhinav Mukund ©, Unmukt Chand, Naman Ojha (wk), Mandeep Singh, Ashok Menaria, Ambati Rayudu, Rahul Sharma, Vinay Kumar, Shami Ahmed, Jaydev Unadkat, Anustup Majumdar So NZ is not even playing Boult! And here I was thinking that he'd take a good test of our batsmen in the longer version! What a huge disappointment. But it isn't as if Indian are taking advantage of that absence. After opening partnership, once again the middle order is crumbling because Mandeep or Majumdar are proving unsuccessful even in longer format. And I don't expect anything from Menaria. How did he even get into the team after such abysmal ODI series? End Of Day 1: INDIA A - 136/4 in 36.4 overs (Ambati Rayudu 9, Ashok Menaria 0) Rain and bad light curtailed the match to just 36 overs!
:rofl: Majumdar has only played one innings in NZ. These are players at a developmental stage, and has never played on these kind of wickets. They'll take time to make adjustments to their techniques and get used to facing really fast bowlers in helpful conditions. Mandeep is one of the best we have, so don't be in a hurry to dismiss him. Menaria is playing because he is the vice-captain. Also, probably because the team management feels that he is more suited than SKY or Saxena. Plus, everyone has had a dismal series, barring Rayudu maybe. Makes no sense pointing fingers at Menaria alone.
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:rofl: Majumdar has only played one innings in NZ. These are players at a developmental stage, and has never played on these kind of wickets. They'll take time to make adjustments to their techniques and get used to facing really fast bowlers in helpful conditions. Mandeep is one of the best we have, so don't be in a hurry to dismiss him. Menaria is playing because he is the vice-captain. Also, probably because the team management feels that he is more suited than SKY or Saxena. Plus, everyone has had a dismal series, barring Rayudu maybe. Makes no sense pointing fingers at Menaria alone.
Even Unmukt has never played in NZ before. But he is doing ok. We can say that he is in developmental stage being too young and inexperienced! And the best players only get to play for India, not mediocre players! If you think Mandeep is one of the best we have, he should have had at least one success in 4 outings as Unmukt did, no? I'm not dismissing Mandeep. It is in his own hands to kick on from here or get into oblivion! Here is the 1st day's report: NZ A on top in rain affected day Day one of the first Four-day match between New Zealand A and India A has been called off due to inclement weather after just 36.4 overs. Bad light initially brought the match to a halt, before rain settled in and forced the rest of the day’s play to be abandoned at 3:35pm. India is 136 for four heading into day two, but will be disappointed with their position after a solid start to the innings. Having lost the toss and been sent into bat, they didn’t allow the New Zealand bowling attack to make any early inroads. Unkmukt Chand got things underway in style with a classy off-drive for four off the first delivery. Chand continued to look solid and formed a valuable partnership with captain Abhinav Mukund. The pair put on 82 for the opening wicket, before Nethula broke through for New Zealand when he had Mukund trapped leg-before-wicket on 42. Anustup Majumdar was next in, but went just five runs later when he was bowled by Sam Wells for four. India were forced to rebuild and looked to be regaining control at 118 for two, before Chand fell for 54. Having just brought up his half century the 19 year-old departed at the start of the 30th over when he was caught by Neil Broom off the bowling of Andy McKay. With dark clouds looming New Zealand made one more breakthrough by capturing the wicket of Mandeep Singh for 20. That strike by Brent Arnel meant India will resume tomorrow at 136 for four, with Ambati Rayudu on nine and Ashok Menaria still on nought. The wickets were shared amongst the New Zealand attack, but McKay was used the most and ended with figures of one for 38 from 12 overs. Days two, three and four are now scheduled to begin at 10:00am in an effort to make up for today’s lost overs. .
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Better or not - McKay and Wagner are definitely better (given the conditions) than the ones which we have in Ranji Trophy.
Definitely! They might even be better than our India A seamers+ being in home conditions they are doubly dangerous! Hence it is a good work out for our batsmen. Unfortunately not many are getting success. But this is not our real India A I believe as few players were kept back for Irani trophy. Hopefully in next India A tour, we'll have a full strength squad and will play a tough team like Australia or England Lions.
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Definitely! They might even be better than our India A seamers+ being in home conditions they are doubly dangerous! Hence it is a good work out for our batsmen. Unfortunately not many are getting success. But this is not our real India A I believe as few players were kept back for Irani trophy. Hopefully in next India A tour, we'll have a full strength squad and will play a tough team like Australia or England Lions.
im happy that this isnt our real a team tbh atleast this time guys like mandeep got chances imo we wasted many batting slots in last a team with guys like vijay playing he would have failed even here and chand would not have gotten opertunity anyway im waiting to see how bowlers perform cos batiing wise this tour already has been better then windies one where only pujara performed consisntly in tests and next best was saha:cantstop:
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