New Zealand Tour of India 2012

[Crookbond]

Carry your own ID, brah! You should be good. I was kidding :D

[cowboysfan]

Weather looks terrible,this might be a draw with a lot of time lost.

[SLICKR392]

Carry your own ID' date=' brah! You should be good. I was kidding :D[/quote'] Got an email from Kyazoonga. I'll do fine with the photocopy and my license

[Ultimate_Game]

If the pitch has something in it for pacers I expect Kiwi pacemen to outbowl us easily and would back them to square the series. After all they won a Test in Aus and last time they toured India they reduced India to 15/5 in a Test before Harbhajan somehow hit a 100.

[J P K]

sporting pitch lol it would turn out to be a flat deck

[kubrickian]

I dont know what's with the curators at Bangalore but they have never prepared turning tracks. Its either flat decks or helpful for seamers. When you are playing at home, you have to prepare wickets which assist home team. Otherwise, GTFO.

[GautiMaan]

Got an email from Kyazoonga. I'll do fine with the photocopy and my license

Have a go at the stupid curator if India doesnt win,will ya:icflove:

[Trichromatic]

If the pitch has something in it for pacers I expect Kiwi pacemen to outbowl us easily and would back them to square the series. After all they won a Test in Aus and last time they toured India they reduced India to 15/5 in a Test before Harbhajan somehow hit a 100.

+1. They managed to save series in Australia where our bowlers were bowling as if it was flattest track in history of cricket. If pitch is seamer friendly then expect that we will be reduced to 2-3 batsmen with Sehwag, Gambhir, Dhoni, Raina being walking wicket. Would be big blow for fans who are dreaming about easy clean sweep in all home series. :giggle:

[jj_28]

Should we play 3 seamers and Ashwin for this one or stick with 2 Spinner and 2 Pacers

[kubrickian]

If the pitch has something in it for pacers I expect Kiwi pacemen to outbowl us easily and would back them to square the series. After all they won a Test in Aus and last time they toured India they reduced India to 15/5 in a Test before Harbhajan somehow hit a 100.

If Harbhajan "somehow" hit a hundred, I would expect the other Indian batsmen to not do too badly. Zaheer and Umesh can be a handful in seaming conditions too.

[PaceAttack]

Current NZ side is a joke. Everyone plays Rugby..

[Lord]

U_G ' date=' Sometimes you are at the mercy of nature. This is one of those times.[/quote'] sun isnt the only source of heat:dontknow:

[carnish]

sun isnt the only source of heat:dontknow:

Exactly the curators should use hair dryers to heat up the pitch ... #Joking

[Lord]

Exactly the curators should use hair dryers to heat up the pitch ... #Joking

not a bad idea:--D

[Ultimate_Game]

U_G ' date=' Sometimes you are at the mercy of nature. This is one of those times.[/quote'] Bud you have to factor in and in fact plan for bad weather while preparing the pitch. That too in monsoon season :facepalm: There are industrial heaters available. Set up huge plastic tents that protect the pitch and inner circle and use industrial heaters to dry out the pitch. These excuses of "being at the mercy of weather or rain gods" simply doesn't cut it in this day and age. This is lack of foresight and planning and not ill luck.

[Trichromatic]

Exactly the curators should use hair dryers to heat up the pitch ... #Joking

They used helicopters once to dry the pitch in Guwahati.

[Crookbond]

Bud you have to factor in and in fact plan for bad weather while preparing the pitch. That too in monsoon season :facepalm: There are industrial heaters available. Set up huge plastic tents that protect the pitch and inner circle and use industrial heaters to dry out the pitch. These excuses of "being at the mercy of weather or rain gods" simply doesn't cut it in this day and age. This is lack of foresight and planning and not ill luck.

U_G Bhaiyya, Even state of the art technologies require some help from the weather gods. You can not be fool proof. Bangalore has received a lot of rain - please cut some slack.

[Crookbond]

They used helicopters once to dry the pitch in Guwahati.

Yea, saw that once :woot:

[Needforspeed]

The Weather forecast for all the five days of the match says "Scattered Thunder storms" with 60% chance of rain. I wonder how much play we are going to get.

[JaFanatic]

My XI for tomo sehwag© gambhir pujara sachin kohli badri dhoni ashwin ishanth umesh zaheer