India tour of New Zealand - March 2009

[Leggie]

Hopefully Dinesh Karthik gets a game for the dead rubber. Dhoni has always liked giving chances to the bench players in these games so hopefully he should get a go and make his mark. Sachin should take it easy, even if he's fit I'd rather he sits out so he doesn't aggravate it and put doubts on the tests.

Rest a lot of players, maybe even Dhoni himself. I'd go with

Yusuf Pathan
Gautam Gambhir
Suresh Raina
Yuvraj Singh (c-ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww)
Dinesh Karthik (wk)
Rohit Sharma
Irfan Pathan
Praveen Kumar
Harbhajan Singh
Praghyan Ojha
Munaf Patel

Doubt we' go with anything close to that but, yeah.

Woah, you've picked Yuseless to open the batting and UV as Captain

Are you feeling alright Rohit?

 

[Cricketman]

Don't forget I chose Dadaji in there too.

I was feeling a bit sick yesterday...

 

[irottev]

Styris is in the dquad as cover for Thompson. Drop Thompson please and use Styris!

 

[Leggie]

I just looked up Styris' Stats, He's seems to be underused and underrated.

 

[Cricketman]

Frankly I think Styris would be prime for whalloping.

 

[Leggie]

Apparently Scott Styris is a dibbly dobbly medium pacer.

 

[Cricketman]

Have you not seen him play? He's been around for ages.

 

[Leggie]

Yeah...Medium pacer who is likely to get slapped if he bowls tomorrow.

 

[Ari]

I don't quite understand bringing Styris in as a replacement wouldn't it have been better to bring in a front line bowler?

 

[Leggie]

Well Styris contributes with both bat and ball, So it equals out in the end.

 

[Ari]

Well Styris contributes with both bat and ball, So it equals out in the end.

It doesn't equal out at all our bowling is already weak all this does is weaken it more.

 

[deerkick]

Le sigh. Rain once again ruins things!!!

 

[Cricketman]

Unchanged team.

 

[Geekery]

heh Sehwags at it again, nice to see a big noisy crowd in

 

[sohum]

There appear to be more Indian fans at the stadium than their Kiwi counterparts.

sohum added 10 Minutes and 44 Seconds later...

Sehwag's gonna get out soon. Every time his partner keeps him away from the strike for 1-2 overs, he gets over-aggressive and plays a silly shot.

EDIT: Almost called it perfectly. Dropped at first slip.