Black Caps in India

[Chris B.]

Unfortunately, someone didn't quite wind Jeets' spring tight enough this morning. Just when I was expecting him to tear the Indians a new one they went after him.

[reprobate]

@Chris-B. Nah he was just feeding them a few extra runs to make sure he can tonne up in the chase.

[reprobate]

Incidentally, is it time for me to clear the old browser history or does everyone's cricinfo have ads for 'popcherry' - a relatively skimpy women's clothing brand?

[Siam]

What happened to BJ? Luke has the gloves.

Really good fight back from our seamers but unfortunately 270 odd is too much let alone what it'll end up being. Pitch is up and down too

[reprobate]

@Siam dunno, probably some sort of injury - but why not share the duties even if there is no issue? They're both full timers, so why not keep them fresh - shoulda been happening with baz too in my opinion, particularly if your keeper plays a long innings, why not give them a session off.

[Siam]

@reprobate I sense the logic but no keeper wants to do half an innings. There's a rhythm and flow to the job. Hence why no lesser team anywhere ever does it

[reprobate]

@Siam yeah I hear ya, but it's not that common to have in a team a very good keeper (baz) unable to keep for tests but who can handle Odis, and a semi-convert in BJ. I wouldn't advocate changing ad hoc, but a full session would allow people to have their heads around it I reckon, and a couple of hours with the feet up while a superior outfielder is on the ground would make sense. Can either of BJ or Luke even throw anymore?

[Siam]

@reprobate Yeah nah😉

[reprobate]

@Siam you reckon rhythm and flow go right through the lunch break then?

If eg you're stuck in the field for two days on a road, it just makes sense to share the load. Especially if both keepers are pretty equivalent as keepers, and are both important batsmen. Best for the team in my opinion.

[reprobate]

By the way I'm just going to get more hypothetical the more we get flogged.

[No Quarter]

@Chris-B. said in Black Caps in India:

Haven't quite taken the wickets fast enough - they're 125/6 effectively 237/6.

Hard to think we can get 250 to win batting last, let alone any more. Someone would have to do something special! About the only trump card we have is that they've only got two seamers.

Yeah we are done, I was holding out hope that each wicket would lead to another flurry of wickets and keep the lead to 200ish. If we had worlds best batsmen Kane we could have been right in this with a few more on the board in our first dig.

[ACT Crusader]

A touch of nostalgia seeing Jeets go for more than 6 an over....

[No Quarter]

@ACT-Crusader said in Black Caps in India:

A touch of nostalgia seeing Jeets go for more than 6 an over....

Well he did only arrive in India 24 hours before the start of the test...

[MN5]

Henry had done bloody well.

Jeets has 2 for 116......still better than Craig or Sodhi would have managed I suppose.

[No Quarter]

Plan for tonight - send Guppy out in his ODI uniform and tell him to fucking go for it. He won't last more then 10 overs so he may as well smack 80 odd in that time.

[Hooroo]

nah, I reckon he should play himself in and get his test match eye in...........

[Chris B.]

Sooo....just 376 to win.

From the Monty Burns school of coaching ("You, Strawberry...hit a home run. .... I told him to do that!"), I'm pretty confident that if Guppy and Nicholls can each score a decent hundred then we'll win. Surely the others can do enough batting around them.

There's the formula boys! Get to it!

[No Quarter]

11 down 375 to go. Good start.

[Chris B.]

Guppy gets a big life! That looked plumb to me.

[Chris B.]

55/0 at lunch. Pretty much 1/7th of what we need.

To paraphrase the Captain and Tenille, "Do that to me six more times, once is never enough...".

That's another formula.