Super 8: 16th Match India v WI

[SciD]

Punjabis day so far today.

Stuart Broad > Dwayne Bravo tbh. Yet to go for a boundary bowling that line from round the wicket iirc.

Not in fielding though.

 

[SaiSrini]

Rohit Sharma said that anything between 140 to 150 would be good considering the position we were in. I think 150 would be a good total to defend. SL defended 150 in the same ground on the same day.

Edit: Bhajji finishes it off in a FLOURISH!! 154 runs to win for West Indies! Brilliant comeback from India after a horrible start

 

[Gurjot95]

Finally we have respective total. But still not enough as anything can happen in T20 but still great comeback:happy

 

[King Pietersen]

Not in fielding though.

Shhhh. We've put the fielding from 'that' over out of our minds already

This should be an exciting end. I'm hoping the Windies win tbh. Would set the group up nicely. England should beat the Windies given their record against us of late, so the India-England game will be key, and could decide the group, depending on how well India and West Indies do against SA. Come on Gayle, give it a whack!

 

[sohum]

Hoping for Gayle to fall early. But I won't make any predictions until Howsie shares his.

 

[Howsie]

First prediction for the West Indies innings:

Andre Fletcher to out score Chris Gayle.

 

[Yogy]

if Dhoni did not waste those deliveries, India would have scored over 160.

A good performance by both the teams at the end. I wish Gayle goes out early.

 

[SaiSrini]

I think India will pull this off. Gayle is the danger guy as we all know, but I have a feeling that India might stop him today. Yuvraj has once again given the comeback and the momentum to the team. The team will now believe that we seriously have a very good chance to defend this total.

I put it in favor of India 51-49.

 

[Leggie]

Windies will cruise IMO thanks to Dhoni's test cricket. WTF has happened to this guy. He couldn't even take singles.

 

[SaiSrini]

if Dhoni did not waste those deliveries, India would have scored over 160.

A good performance by both the teams at the end. I wish Gayle goes out early.

When Dhoni came in, India were stuttering and Dhoni was also not in form. I am not defending him, but dont be too harsh on him.

 

[sohum]

First prediction for the West Indies innings:

Andre Fletcher to out score Chris Gayle.

Hopefully it's Gayle 0 and Fletcher 1.

 

[Pakistani Army]

Fantastic effort by Yuvraj . A real good effort considering the early loss of wickets. By the way, do you reckon Yusuf Pathan has dislocated his right shoulder?

 

[sohum]

I think Dhoni should have come in earlier--as soon as Rohit fell. That way he may have got going during the powerplays and if we lost Gambhir he would have buckled it down a bit. Raina was forced into a situation where he had most of the overs left, whereas he's only come in in the death so far in this tour. Don't know what Dhoni was thinking. :/

Oh well. This is not a large enough total to be comfortable about. I'm hoping for a tight finish so that at least our net run rate (if we lose) is decent.

 

[SaiSrini]

Hopefully it's Gayle 0 and Fletcher 1.

I think Bhajji might open the bowling or bowl a few overs in the first 6 overs and bowl fastish offbreaks to Gayle. Since Yusuf seems to be struggling with his shoulder, it should be Bhajji.

saisrini80 added 1 Minutes and 39 Seconds later...

I think Dhoni should have come in earlier--as soon as Rohit fell. That way he may have got going during the powerplays and if we lost Gambhir he would have buckled it down a bit. Raina was forced into a situation where he had most of the overs left, whereas he's only come in in the death so far in this tour. Don't know what Dhoni was thinking. :/

Oh well. This is not a large enough total to be comfortable about. I'm hoping for a tight finish so that at least our net run rate (if we lose) is decent.

That would mean he comes in again at No.3 right. People would still have torn him apart for being stubborn and not giving Raina the chance to showcase himself. Now, Dhoni has got into that position where he is envious for many and people want him to fail and find excuses to tear him apart. Same happened with Ganguly, Dravid, Tendulkar, etc

 

[SciD]

Hayle is away. Come On Zak you can do this. Can we have appam in side line to distract opponents.