***Official*** India in New Zealand 2020

[Daemon]

They seem to have smashed the seamers around except Warrier. But are struggling against the left arm darters.

Except Porel you mean

 

[Noumenon]

Two SLA playing together in NZ is a bit much. As is selection of Siraj for LA matches. Must be Dravid playing god again.

 

[Noumenon]

Looks to me Shaw's performance masked what was otherwise an ordinary batting display from India A collectively. Should have got 400 from where they were placed.

 

[honestbharani]

Except Porel you mean

Yeah the mobile scorecard was a pain to see.. mixed up the names and figures

 

[Noumenon]

Ishant has hurt his ankle appealing against Vidarbha today. Hopefully a low grade injury because otherwise India stand to lose the only pacer who could bowl long, threatening spells.

Thread ought to be stickied given the tour begins in 3 days time?

 

[NZTailender]

The white balls will be like 3-2 and 2-1 either way, with last matches both being deciders, with the Test series 1-0 to NZ, NZ just escaping in the 2nd one with a draw.

 

[Bahnz]

I dunno, I think India will win the tests, and I think it's probably most likely to be 2-0. There fast bowling unit - if fully fit - is just better than NZ's, and the batting unit will be extremely low on confidence after the recent Australia series.

 

[Athlai]

I hope we win the T20s 2-1, the ODIs 3-2 and the Tests 3-0

 

[nzfan]

Looks to me Shaw's performance masked what was otherwise an ordinary batting display from India A collectively. Should have got 400 from where they were placed.

I wouldn't read too much into the warm up games, the runs scored and wickets taken. They are just warm up games. The bowlers and fielders are wee bit relaxed in the warm up games. They don't usually give 100% The bowlers will likely be bowling at 60-80% max. Also NZ fielded bowlers that are not a full time one day bowlers. I would take any runs scored and wickets taken with a grain of salt.

Chances are the game was probably set up on far end of the pitch meaning the boundary could have been really short on one side. The real deal starts when India A and India start playing proper games of which the results matter.

 

[Daemon]

Ishant has hurt his ankle appealing against Vidarbha today. Hopefully a low grade injury because otherwise India stand to lose the only pacer who could bowl long, threatening spells.

Thread ought to be stickied given the tour begins in 3 days time?

Dire. He does have a few weeks to recover though.

 

[Daemon]

I wouldn't read too much into the warm up games, the runs scored and wickets taken. They are just warm up games. The bowlers and fielders are wee bit relaxed in the warm up games. They don't usually give 100% The bowlers will likely be bowling at 60-80% max. Also NZ fielded bowlers that are not a full time one day bowlers. I would take any runs scored and wickets taken with a grain of salt.

Chances are the game was probably set up on far end of the pitch meaning the boundary could have been really short on one side. The real deal starts when India A and India start playing proper games of which the results matter.

Tbf all A games are practice games. I don’t think anyone is taking them lightly because these are all guys vying for selection.

 

[nzfan]

Tbf all A games are practice games. I don’t think anyone is taking them lightly because these are all guys vying for selection.

Only the proper A games are official games and stats counts. The two games we had have no one day status. The NZ XI we provided this time is way stronger than we have in the past. We generally provide a mix of youth and experienced players that are not going to take part in the A side or the black caps side. This one has been an exception.

 

[ataraxia]

I hope we win the T20s 2-1, the ODIs 3-2 and the Tests 3-0

How dare you assume a three-match series in NZ. Those are close to extinct.

 

[Athlai]

How dare you assume a three-match series in NZ. Those are close to extinct.

I actually deliberately changed all of the series lengths, but I'm glad you caught the only one that really matters.

 

[honestbharani]

I hope we win the T20s 2-1, the ODIs 3-2 and the Tests 3-0

Lol.. I think 5 T20Is is good. I would have preferred a 3rd test instead of 3 meaningless ODIs though.

 

[Chewie]

Only the proper A games are official games and stats counts. The two games we had have no one day status. The NZ XI we provided this time is way stronger than we have in the past. We generally provide a mix of youth and experienced players that are not going to take part in the A side or the black caps side. This one has been an exception.

They seem to be list A games according to cricinfo?

 

[honestbharani]

yeah I guess since it was 11 vs 11 between a touring team and a host team with mainly FC players, it will be considered List A. It is possible that even being List A, the quality of the players and the ground (based on things like the wicket being too far on one side of the ground) were not quite the same as a regular List A domestic game even.

 

[Smudge]

Ishant has hurt his ankle appealing against Vidarbha today. Hopefully a low grade injury because otherwise India stand to lose the only pacer who could bowl long, threatening spells.

Thread ought to be stickied given the tour begins in 3 days time?

I've asked the mods not to sticky it until either they or Flem correctly capitalise the thread title.

 

[nzfan]

They seem to be list A games according to cricinfo?

It's as list A but unofficial. For it to be official you need to have proper side such as a domestic side or a side that is recognized such as NZ A.

 

[nzfan]

They seem to be list A games according to cricinfo?

Maybe it was and I didn't get it right. Will check and if it is that's great as JCT Boyle's top score of 130 will be counted and so will Prithvi Shaw's.

In fact it was... My bad. JCT Boyle's 130 is registered as his highest. His average has now gone over 50 in list A after 19 innings, nearing 1000 runs shortly.