Crew of Black
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McIntosh gets a hundred.
Might as well shake on it and call it game
Might as well shake on it and call it game
New Zealand Tour of India, November 2010/11
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Chewie
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Kinda fail stadium. No scoreboard, fail sightscreens... It's amazing that McIntosh actually knew he had reached his century. A well played one, that silenced his critics though.
relentless_rock
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Mission Domination my a$$, more like Mission Reality Check
Captain cool Dhoni doesnt mind NZ reaching 500 as long as they go at less than 3rpo.
Captain cool Dhoni doesnt mind NZ reaching 500 as long as they go at less than 3rpo.
Chewie
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Again we lose a wicket before the end of the day. Last game it was Ryder who also got out just after his wicket. McIntosh had a chance to bat throughout the whole day, but fails just short. Hopkins as nightwatchman LOL
I wonder when the last time we had an opener bat the whole day...
I wonder when the last time we had an opener bat the whole day...
You were right that Zaheer would clean up McIntosh but not early, but instead 102 runs later. Bit of a shame that he couldn't stick around being so close to stumps.
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Well if teams try to play defensive cricket then its really hard to get them out in India. This is the reason Aussies have not been successful as they like to play aggressive cricket.
Anyways nothing to read from this match. Indian bowling is pathetic from quite some time and blaming Dhoni for it is useless. He cannot bowl for them. And beside if you look at last few matches history in India the sides have scored heavily on first 3 days and only faltered in last 2 days.
Anyways nothing to read from this match. Indian bowling is pathetic from quite some time and blaming Dhoni for it is useless. He cannot bowl for them. And beside if you look at last few matches history in India the sides have scored heavily on first 3 days and only faltered in last 2 days.
AkshayS
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This match is giving me a feeling that it would be 0-0 result for the series.
Nevermind, McIntosh and Guptill played well but too slow I'd say, but they are playing too slowly I think. You ain't supposed to get a result with this, if NZ will be able to reach 450-500, then match is going to draw.
Nevermind, McIntosh and Guptill played well but too slow I'd say, but they are playing too slowly I think. You ain't supposed to get a result with this, if NZ will be able to reach 450-500, then match is going to draw.
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Will go 1-0 in India's favor.
riz7khan12
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New Zealand are playing pretty well here, if we can get to 500 by the end of the day; that'll be a perfect score to defend.
But as of now, the match is delicately poised. A spirited bowling performance by Zaheer and Sreesanth can really take the game away. So the NZ batsmen have to hang around and play defensively for the first hour or so.
But as of now, the match is delicately poised. A spirited bowling performance by Zaheer and Sreesanth can really take the game away. So the NZ batsmen have to hang around and play defensively for the first hour or so.
Chewie
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Can you really blame them for going slowly? McIntosh's natural game is to bat slowly and that's what he's in the side for. He's basically a worse clone of Mark Richardson and is meant to occupy time at the crease which he did perfectly today. He doesn't really bat any slower than someone like Dravid to be honest.
Guptill was slow at the beginning of his innings because he wasn't in form. He was extremely scratchy so it's hard to blame him for going slowly. He was trying to preserve his wicket at the beginning of his innings. Once he got his eye in after about 60 balls and 20 runs, he started batting faster and his S/R ended up being over 50.
The batsmen feel that once you have got your eye in, then you can start playing shots on this pitch because it becomes much much easier to do so. I'd expect Ryder to begin to open up after maybe 30 balls today.
You have to score at least 400 on this pitch to even make a match of it, because the opposition side will find it just as easy to bat on. I'd say there's still a possibility of a result, as we saw in the last test match, anything can happen. Either way, NZ would be happy with a draw against the number 1 test match. If it was India that was batting this slowly then there would be good reason to criticise them.
TumTum
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No.1 Test team is very generous and has excellent hospitality. They let batsmen on debut get centuries, mediocre batsmen get runs when under pressure and gift wickets to new young bowlers (especially SRT, he's so humble).
Another far too familiar collapse.
Disappointed that Hopkins didn't get a score to prove his critics wrong like McIntosh and Guptill did, but hopefully he'll get a score in the second innings or the next match.
This Sreesanth looks like a massive weak-link for the number one test team in the world, averaging over 40 in Asia, where he plays over half his test matches.
350 is on the cards, and that's a very good total for us backing up from 450 odd, not often that we put together two 300 pluses in a row. Everyone in our normal top six has got a score of 50 plus in the last two innings, ignoring our second innings last match which is encouraging.
Disappointed that Hopkins didn't get a score to prove his critics wrong like McIntosh and Guptill did, but hopefully he'll get a score in the second innings or the next match.
This Sreesanth looks like a massive weak-link for the number one test team in the world, averaging over 40 in Asia, where he plays over half his test matches.
350 is on the cards, and that's a very good total for us backing up from 450 odd, not often that we put together two 300 pluses in a row. Everyone in our normal top six has got a score of 50 plus in the last two innings, ignoring our second innings last match which is encouraging.
Chewie
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Sreesanth was actually bowling pretty well for them before. He's one of their best pace bowlers really. Though I'm not sure whether I'd prefer to have him or Ishant in the side.
350 is a good total, but then when you take the pitch into account, and the position we were in, we should have had much more. And the wickets weren't really because of the pitch either so our bowlers won't have too much fun.
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