*Unofficial* India in Zimbabwe 2015

[Jono]

Bad luck Chiggy.

Last ball of the 49th over cost them.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Result was never in doubt.

 

[harsh.ag]

Damn it!

 

[G.I.Joe]

 

[Swingpanzee]

wtf did Zimbabwe do

 

[Burner]

Result was never in doubt.

 

[Burner]

Cremer ****ed up. Got out to a wide ball in the 49th over and I believe they would have won the game if not for that dismissal.

 

[OverratedSanity]

That reverse sweep was so dumb. Would've been a wide if he'd left it. Premeditation sucks unless you're a freak like AB.

 

[weldone]

Jesus ****ing Christ! What a match!

Chigumbura - take a bow for giving me a mini heart attack in the last few overs! I had big money riding on India after they reached 250+ (vowed to myself 15 minutes back to never do that again).

As I said earlier, Rahane missed a trick by opening the bowling with Kulkarni ahead of Binny in these conditions and with this ball. Rayudu had Binny on the other end - Chigumbura missed someone similar. This India side doesn't have a good death bowler, but Bhuvi is a champ - bowled well with the new ball as usual, and performed a role in the last over where he's not used to.

When everyone is fit, our 1st team bowling attack should be Shami-Bhuvi-Umesh-Ashwin-and a fifth bowler (Bhajji/Axar/Binny - depending on conditions)

 

[Jono]

what odds did you get? India to win after they had already recovered seemed like it'd be **** odds.

 

[OverratedSanity]

While talking about the Cremer dismissal, Arun Lal just outed himself as the fixing mastermind: "That's how cricket is. A lot of it is pre-determined"

 

[weldone]

what odds did you get? India to win after they had already recovered seemed like it'd be **** odds.

1.57 at lunch...thought the site was a bit generous and so I put a big amount there - should have probably put 1/10th of that but I was over-confident..I'll never do that again

Learning from mistakes is good I guess, unless it costs

 

[OverratedSanity]

heh,I like Rahane admitting he was pissing himself.

 

[Pratters]

Rayudu WAG.

Why are people surprised by the close game? Zimbabwe play well at home and India don't play too well outside. This is actually the perfect series to test these players.

 

[Pratters]

When I looked at the bowling line up for this tour Kulkarni, Bhuvi, Stuart Binny too many dibbly dobblers in one bowling line up for my liking.

 

[honestbharani]

Our entire domestic scene is bursting with dibbly dobbly merchants who cant do much else.. what to do?

 

[weldone]

When I looked at the bowling line up for this tour Kulkarni, Bhuvi, Stuart Binny too many dibbly dobblers in one bowling line up for my liking.

suitable for the conditions and the ball apparently...but we should have had a decent death bowler (like Umesh, if Shami is injured)

 

[Pratters]

Our entire domestic scene is bursting with dibbly dobbly merchants who cant do much else.. what to do?

This is true. However, we have a sameness to the attack which is nauseating. Some one taller who could have extracted a bit of bounce like Pankaj Singh maybe. It's easier on the batsmen when you have just the same kind of slower bowlers bowling one after the other.

 

[Arjun]

Our entire domestic scene is bursting with dibbly dobbly merchants who cant do much else.. what to do?

This is true. However, we have a sameness to the attack which is nauseating. Some one taller who could have extracted a bit of bounce like Pankaj Singh maybe. It's easier on the batsmen when you have just the same kind of slower bowlers bowling one after the other.

Pankaj Singh-Umesh Yadav-Ishwar Pandey-Shami (ODI specialist) is the best they can put together. They somehow don't. Dhawal Kulkarni happens to be one of India's best limited-overs bowlers. Wonder what to make of that. Bhuvneshwar may be useful as a lower-order batsman and change seamer, but as frontline strike bowler, can do nothing.

 

[harsh.ag]

Vijay is such a class act