New Zealand's Tour Of India Aug-Sep 2012

[Prithvi]

Check out how it is. Two of the flood lights can be seen barely from my home, which is one and half KM away (my cam couldn't catch though).

http://oi48.tinypic.com/994fth.jpg

 

[Epic]

What am I supposed to be looking at again?

 

[Prithvi]

Thankfully, the rain has stopped. It might remain the same because I'm now able to view skyline partially.

 

[badvintage]

India and Pakistan can only win in their own ground. Look at them.

 

[SaiSrini]

India and Pakistan can only win in their own ground. Look at them.

India's overseas record has shown remarkable improvement in the last decade until the exit of Kirsten. The entry of Fletcher and the last two overseas tours has very uncomfortably brought back memories of the dark days of the pre 2000 era where we looked like kittens abroad. But I am still optimistic and confident that the recent debacle in England and Australia are more due to poor selection issues and team management than capability and skills. Carrying around too many ageing players at the same time was probably one of the major weakness we had. Now that Dravid and Laxman are gone and we are inducting players like Pujara, Rahane, etc, I am optimistic our overseas record should be back on track.

 

[badvintage]

India's overseas record has shown remarkable improvement in the last decade until the exit of Kirsten. The entry of Fletcher and the last two overseas tours has very uncomfortably brought back memories of the dark days of the pre 2000 era where we looked like kittens abroad. But I am still optimistic and confident that the recent debacle in England and Australia are more due to poor selection issues and team management than capability and skills. Carrying around too many ageing players at the same time was probably one of the major weakness we had. Now that Dravid and Laxman are gone and we are inducting players like Pujara, Rahane, etc, I am optimistic our overseas record should be back on track.

We will see how they work with their squad in different grounds in the next couple seasons. But we got to admit that India and Pakistan can't play in different countries.

 

[Epic]

Why is it just India and Pakistan though? England haven't won a Test series in India since 1985, Australia hadn't won a Test series in India for 34 years till the 2004 series and mind you they were one of the best teams to grace cricket.

 

[badvintage]

Why is it just India and Pakistan though? England haven't won a Test series in India since 1985, Australia hadn't won a Test series in India for 34 years till the 2004 series and mind you they were one of the best teams to grace cricket.

But they can still manage to win against other teams around the world. India lost two good series against Australia and England. Pakistan sometimes can't win a series other than near Dubai.

 

[Epic]

But they can still manage to win against other teams around the world. India lost two good series against Australia and England. Pakistan sometimes can't win a series other than near Dubai.

Two recent series' you mean.

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Plays finally underway, hoping for 2 things, 9 wickets today and no interruptions from Mother Nature.

 

[Epic]

Pujara hit on the knee at forward short leg, ffs, he has just returned from a knee injury, hope it's nothing serious.

 

[CG123]

kerpluck the BCCI. Pujara had a couple of lives thanks to their being no DRS, and now this. To be shafted after showing all of that application is just a joke.

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Not to mention the Guptill LBW decision and the Kohli catch both went against us.

 

[GalacticGoon]

kerpluck the BCCI. Pujara had a couple of lives thanks to their being no DRS, and now this. To be shafted after showing all of that application is just a joke.

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Not to mention the Guptill LBW decision and the Kohli catch both went against us.

From Cricinfo

McCullum is furious, shaking his head as he walks off, tosses the bat from one hand to the other, bring on the DRS comments!

We care a damn Bring it on man!! Until we find a way to make money out of it, we arnt accepting it

 

[Epic]

What a catch by Sehwag, our new 1st slip pulling off a beauty.

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We care a damn Bring it on man!! Until we find a way to make money out of it, we arnt accepting it

It's weird, when the DRS was first introduced I thought it was India's answer to Sydney 2008, wasn't to be.

 

[Epic]

India win by an innings and 115 runs, wonderful stuff from Ashwin, finishes with 12-85, just wow.

 

[Aalay]

Done and dusted in 4 days. Well that was brilliant performance from Ashwin. Hope his haters will shut up for a while. Good supporting role by Pragyan Ojha as well, he is a quality spinner as well. Good sign in batting s well with Pujara getting a ton and Kohli and Dhoni getting important runs under their belt. Overall, a good match for us.