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Semi Final 2 - West Indies v India (31st March)
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Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
I find it amazing how many people, here and on Twitter, have said game over when Gayle got out.
Its like they've never seen cricket before or something.
Nothing wrong with turning the ball over to hitter for first 20 balls, but batting as long as he did and not getting his SR past 125-130 is not good T20 batting. Not about slogging boundaries it is about not having another gear.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Typical pathetic West Indies performance when you want them to show up and beat their evil paymasters.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
The problem is you didn't just say "Rahane could have scored quicker, not an amazing knock", you made it sound like he played an absolutely horrendous knock.
Whereas if he was out for 1 (4) you wouldn't have said anything despite his knock today being infinitely more valuable..
indiaholic
International Captain
But he is not standing there and playing and missing. He ensures that Kohli and Rohit get as many balls to play as possible. Plus he ran like a mother****er.
It was a poor knock given the circumstances, not horrendous but he put so much pressure on rest of line up to fire them to a good score. If he was same SR having scored 25 or something I'd have been fine but there was a couple of overs period where he needed to move up a gear and couldn't.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
I don't disagree with your general point here.
But you saying that it was a match losing knock was a bridge too far. Particularly when you said it after India had got to 192 (which was due in part to him giving Kohli so much strike).
indiaholic
International Captain
When Rohit got out, Rahane had faced 14 balls and Rohit 31. In his partnership with Kohli, he faced 11 and Kohli 29. Sure his S/R might not look great when you just look at the scorecard but he actually did not build pressure on the other batsmen.
duffer
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
around the time Nehra became a good bowler
I said it could be a match losing knock, if you are 2 down in a T20 you have to be past 200 on a pitch like this. Whenever you are relying on your teammates to play ATG knocks to get you to a good score, you haven't done your job and I won't give it credit as a good knock. I probably exaggerated like I normally do a bit, but still not buying it was a good knock.
Nehra has been so, so good all tournament. Best quick bowler on show I think.
cnerd123
likes this
Nehra was gun for quite a while in the early 2000s tbh
Excellent spell today. Just about 2 bad balls, both of which went for four. Has been excellent otherwise