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A brilliant performance from the NZ team tonight! That was a difficult pitch, and they made batting look easy.

Still, considering India had no warm up games this result was predictable. They didnt come to grips with the slowness of the pitch quickly enough.. But hopefully this will continue all series!

But yeah, the important thing was the NZ batting. NZ having a settled top order just doesnt happen..

Have a nice day.
 
Hipmonlee said:
A brilliant performance from the NZ team tonight! That was a difficult pitch, and they made batting look easy.

Still, considering India had no warm up games this result was predictable. They didnt come to grips with the slowness of the pitch quickly enough.. But hopefully this will continue all series!

But yeah, the important thing was the NZ batting. NZ having a settled top order just doesnt happen..

Have a nice day.
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I disagree on some of the things you said. The pitch was actually pretty good to bat on. Yes there were a few balls that kept low but overall it was a good pitch with little swing. I blame the Indian batsman for the loss. It seemed they wanted to hit every ball for 6 because the grounds were so small. NZ played well and won but it was overall a nice match. Hopefully we come back strong on friday!
 
Aus v SA, Day 1: Aus 5/254

Match is in the balance so far, Australia maybe slightly behind. At this point, it looks like it's up to Haddin and North to make sure Australia posts a competitve 1st innings total. Good debut for North so far. Steyn bowled well, as usual, and Ntini produced a ripper of a ball to take out Ponting.

The referral system is also a nice addition to the game. Hopely it'll stay, to get rid of all the "that was so unlucky" stuff.

If the first day is anything to go by, it's going to be an arm-wrestle, just like most of the previous Aus v SA series. Great stuff!
 
England vs. West Indies Day 1: 301/3

I am slightly dissapointed at this. Not because of the overall score, but because we seemed to squander an excellent position from earlier in the innings. I was told that we were 230 for 0 shortly after tea, which was an excellent position to be in. If only we could have pushed on to be 320 / 330 ish that would have been great, possibly for the loss of only 1 wicket (probably asking a little much!) But it feels like we have given the West INdies a bit of hope, and possibly the energy to give us a real run for our money in the first session of tomorrow's play. I am disspointed that Cook did not get the century that he deserved, and am very glad that Strass was able to "lead from the front."

Overall, however, this is very encouraging. We definately have the upperhand, and I would definately have taken that, if someone had offered it to me before the beginning of the days play!

Also, what are people's thoughts on the referral system?
 
This game was pretty fucking great. I honestly had no real hopes after India's low score and NZ's initial performance but they pulled it into an amazing finish.

Could've gone either way, fucking great game :)
 
The referal system I think is great in concept, but it didnt seem to work well in NZ.

The most noticeable problem with it was when a batsman is given out and that decision gets challenged. In the second test of WI vs NZ McCullum was given caught when he didnt hit the ball. He challenged, and the third umpire saw no evidence of him hitting the ball, and yet the decision wasnt overturned because the on field umpire had no doubt that McCullum had hit the ball (hence awarding the decision in the first place).

Snicko and Hotspot were available and not used, and to be honest it made the whole thing just look retarded.

I would like if there was some sort of gentlemans agreement between captains only to use referrals in cases of poor judgement, as opposed to cases of serious doubt. But most people in the world hate that..

Also yeah, another game where McCullum's leisurely approach and difficulties against spinners almost end up costing us the match, only to be saved by his amazing hitting.. He still hasnt quite got his head around opening. I guess when he does NZ will be in good shape though. At least it makes things exciting!

Have a nice day.
 
Sarwan is already the man of the England / West Indies series for me. In his three innings so far he has hit two hundreds and one 94, he is the very definition of consistant, and seems to be shining even more since he passed the captaincy on to Gayle. It has really let him come out and do what he does best, bat!

We have been struggling to get through the Sarwan / Chanderpaul partnership in general during this series, if we could only break it early in a match you can be assured that we will be on top of that match. They are really holding the West Indies together at the moment!
 
cricinfo said:
84.5 Anderson to Chanderpaul, OUT, Anderson's got him! The inswinger darts back into Chanderpaul who shoulders arms, and up goes the finger. As you'd expect, it's been referred by Chanderpaul and the problem now is height. Now, the third umpire doesn't have the benefit of predictive hawkeye so they can't tell whether it would've gone over the stumps, but they don't even need hawkeye. It is that obvious. Up goes the finger for a second time. Well, for all England's celebrations, that decision really does sum up the sham of a system that this referral experiment is
S Chanderpaul lbw b Anderson 70 (134b 11x4 0x6) SR: 52.23

West Indies 281/4 RR Sarwan 125* (213b 12x4 1x6) JM Anderson 16.5-3-58-2
95.2 Swann to Nash, OUT, that's close - he's rapped him on the pads and up goes the appeal. Oh lord. Here we go again - Strauss has called for a referral. Now the umpire turned that down. So, can Daryl Harper be 100% certain the ball is going to hit the stumps? Perhaps a little high, so it won't be a surprise if it's given not-out. I don't know why it's taking so long - it seems perfectly straightforward: there is enough doubt to vindicate the original not-out decision. We're coming up to two minutes of wasted time, and - well, I am flabbergasted. He has been given out. Again, it was fairly clear the ball was going over the top yet Harper has told the onfield umpire to change his decision. I'm afraid I'm speechless
BP Nash lbw b Swann 33 (43b 5x4 1x6) SR: 76.74

West Indies 334/5 RR Sarwan 145* (233b 14x4 2x6) GP Swann 28.2-7-70-3
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Yeah, this to me is the problem.. Chanderpaul I guess would have been out anyway. But it sorta seems like the benefit of the doubt is working against the batsmen here.. I dont think I have ever seen a challenge overturn an onfield umpires out decision.

Have a nice day.
 
I would say the main problem is actually this part:
Cricinfo said:
Now, the third umpire doesn't have the benefit of predictive hawkeye.
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For the system to produce more accurate decisions, they have to use the best technology available. If can be made available for broadcasts, why can't it be made available for the 3rd umpire?

On another note, Aus v SA, stumps Day 3.
Aus 1st inn: 466
2nd inn: 1/51

SA 220, Aus 297 runs ahead.

A lot more one-sided than I'd thought. Hope the Aussies can keep it up (and it's not just the element of surprise...).
 
Two results from the same week:

Karachi - match drawn
Sri Lanka 644-7d & 144-5
Pakistan 765-6d

Bridgetown - match drawn
England 600-6d & 279-2
West Indies 749-9d

3181 runs from 10 full days of cricket and only 35 wickets... a truly awful advertisement for test matches. Where is the contest between bat and ball? Who really cares that Younis Khan and Ramnaresh Sarwan scored 313 and 291 respectively on such featherbeds? Flat lifeless pitches are not good for the game.
 
Maybe you should watch Aus v SA?

Wanderers - Aus wins by 162 runs
Aus- 466 & 207
SA- 220 & 291

Good job the Aussies, Mitchell Johnson in particular, 8 wickets for the match and 96 no. in the first innings.
 
Oh man I hear the Sri Lankan players were attacked in Pakistan. Two players hit with a bullet!

I really hope they survive.......I don't think there will be any more cricket in Pakistan in a while.....
 
Holy shit I just heard about that. It really fucking blows. Pakistani cricket has so many positives, but with shit like this it just fucking sucks.

Also it'd figure that this happens right around when India starts losing wickets.
 
Im gonna kill somebody if it rains in NZ today ._.

I hope India bat first and sehwag bats for the first 10-15 overs at least. If that happens India can't lose ;D

Oh man oh man I love this match.... 182/2 in 26.4 overs

I love Yuvraj singh!!

69 runs from the batting powerplay :D

But I expect NZ to do something similar.....they will have to,lol
 
Wow, India past 300 with 8 overs to go, very impressive batting. What happened to Vettori though? He's not in the match.

Also, Aus v SA just gets better and better. After seeing bat dominate ball on day 1, 13 wickets on day 2, including an effective 5-for to Mitchell Johnson (3 wickets + 2 injured). Damn he's a menace!

@Flame_Blade: you might want to check your geography, Tendulkar's destroying the Kiwis - the Aussies are busy thrashing the Proteas :P
 
Onii said:
Wow, India past 300 with 8 overs to go, very impressive batting. What happened to Vettori though? He's not in the match.

Also, Aus v SA just gets better and better. After seeing bat dominate ball on day 1, 13 wickets on day 2, including an effective 5-for to Mitchell Johnson (3 wickets + 2 injured). Damn he's a menace!

@Flame_Blade: you might want to check your geography, Tendulkar's destroying the Kiwis - the Aussies are busy thrashing the Proteas :P
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Um I edited that at around 28 overs and at that time it was Yuvraj was the more attacking and I know my favourite cricketer has retired hurt at 163 D:

what a total masterclass from the great man!

And Vettori is not playing because his wife is delivering a baby so he had a leave. Yeah Mitch Johnson is the best thing that happend to Aus cricket in recent times

WOW 392 from 50 overs alsolute carnage.......

Keep in mind Virender Sehwag the star of the last 2 matches got out for 3 this match. It just goes to show the power of the Indian battling like up ;D
 
Ouch..

The panicky response by NZ is a little dissapointing. Ewen Thompson is not an international quality bowler, he should not have been in the side.. Batting first was a bizarre decision, it suggests an element of "we'll keep trying things until something works".

Which I think has been the problem with the bowling. I think they need to show faith in their best bowlers and say "just bowl the way you know best as best you can" and just accept that this Indian batting side is one of the best ODI batting lineups ever, and they probably will score a lot of runs. Especially on flat pitches with small boundaries..

There have been a lot of decisions like this throughout the series by NZ..

When it comes down to it, everyone knows that the best Seamers in the country are Mills, OBrien, Southee and Oram and recently Butler has proven to be among that group. And if you want variation, then play Patel. Sure they have been hit for boatloads this series but they are the best men for the job, so what can you do? I'd like to note that if they have bowled worse than they bowled in Australia, it hasnt been significantly.

I was listening to talkback in the car on the way home and people want to drop Oram. Talkback is stupid.

Yeah, also the NZ team are not good players of Spin. Which is kinda odd because they traditionally have been. Which again is odd because traditionally there are no good spinners in NZ..

Have a nice day.
 
Sehwag just went berserk today...
Kiwis had no chance.
And Australia, what a turnaround!

And I'm Sri Lankan, I was just shocked to see players been carted off like corpses...
It was surreal! This is gonna set back Pakistani cricket, and in turn the Pakistani economy, big time.
Now even the World Cup's looking a bit shaky...
 
Dracul said:
Sehwag just went berserk today...
Kiwis had no chance.
And Australia, what a turnaround!

And I'm Sri Lankan, I was just shocked to see players been carted off like corpses...
It was surreal! This is gonna set back Pakistani cricket, and in turn the Pakistani economy, big time.
Now even the World Cup's looking a bit shaky...
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I'm pretty sure the world cup will still take place in the subcontinent, just that India and/or Sri Lanka will have to bear more matches.

And oh my god, Sehwag just used Outrage...
 
A pretty dismal performance from India was pretty satisfying today.

It kinda was a replay of the two 20/20 games. But I think the problem for India is the confidence from the previous wins made them think they could just keep attacking and it would probably come off, and if not, someone else would come off.

This was a problem the Australian team used to get into, which led to some embarassment for them from time to time..

But yeah, it was a good result from NZ because they can look at the series of ODIs and 20/20s and say "flat tracks we lost, difficult tracks we won" and it's 3-3.

I am just itching for the test series to finally start though.. Hopefully we get some weather (lol cricket in april).

Have a nice day.
 
Pretty bad game for us and NZ bowled well. But what really cost India the game was Rohit Sharma at #4 and some loose shots early on. India actually survived the big swing early on before Gambhir decided to give his wicket away. But really Rohit sharma never rotated the strike making Sehwag think he has to do all the scoring and same with Yuvraj. Idk what the hell Yusuf pathan was trying to do but im looking forward to the test series :)
 
I used to play cricket when I was younger, but I soon reliezed it was cataconically boring. I sucked at bowling and batting, and I got easily bored when fielding, meaning I may not notice the ball coming towards me. I was even TRICKED into playing again in the 6th grade.
 
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