***Official India in New Zealand***

[Bahnz]

Matt and Bahnzy sharing the love.

Gonna agree with Bahnz on this one (getting quite scary, with how much I'm agreeing with him lately), whilst I'm all for guys with potential getting a go, they have to prove themselves in that format first, and generally I'm not a fan of guys in their teens getting pushed up too early either.

Especially now that previously thought journeymen/crap players like Elliott, O'Brien and dare I say it, Nathan McCullum (very early days, but hasn't looked out of his depth) are cruising at the international level with no issues (well, Elliott in tests but he was always a better List A player anyway) we don't need to hit the panic button and select people we think might be good, thats a good way to stay 7th in the world imo if we employ that approach.

Welcome to the dark side.

 

[Flem274*]

Welcome to the dark side.

Nahhhh. Living life in misery like you do would makem e consider suicide.

Probably your evil plan for me but IT WONT WORK!!!! NEVER!!!!

 

[Smudge]

My respect for you just grew 400%.

I was going to call myself Nathan Bracken, but he and Rocky look the same anyway...

 

[_Ed_]

 

[Bahnz]

I was going to call myself Nathan Bracken, but he and Rocky look the same anyway...

Boooouuurrrnnnsss!

 

[biased indian]

what is the name of the stadium where we are going to play the first 20/20.....

is it a new stadium ???

 

[Tim]

AMI Stadium, formally known as Jade Stadium and Lancaster Park in Christchurch.

 

[Brett Dale]

They have had bumper ticket sales for the first 20/20 match, Im stuck in row Z!

They are actually expecting the biggest crowds in decades for this tour because of how good this Indian team is.

 

[Smudge]

It doesn't help that almost half the stands are missing. So you aren't going to get "the biggest crowds in decades" at AMI Stadium, at least.

 

[JimmyGS]

It doesn't help that almost half the stands are missing. So you aren't going to get "the biggest crowds in decades" at AMI Stadium, at least.

Or Eden Park.

 

[_Ed_]

Yeah. They're saying the Auckland ODI has pretty much sold out, but that's only 20,000 or so.

 

[James]

Yeah. They're saying the Auckland ODI has pretty much sold out, but that's only 20,000 or so.

Wouldn't that stadium in Albany currently hold more?

Could have put the drop-in pitch there perhaps.

 

[_Ed_]

Possibly. Mt Smart probably would, too.

 

[_Ed_]

Everyone likes belittling NZ, don't they?

This Cricinfo story has the title "Star-struck NZ gear up for big summer".

And of course there's a rather unfair and inaccurate quip about our weather in the first sentence: "Two days before the first Twenty20 international, New Zealand assembled for what is perhaps their most important summer - or what passes off as summer in these parts - of cricket in recent times."

 

[thierry henry]

NZ has a temperate, mild climate and yet we constantly play up the stereotype that it's cold here. Hardly.

 

[Flem274*]

Just wait until I cheat my way into being a cricinfo writer, next time England A lose to our emerging players team of 14 year olds who've played 10 FC games, I'll be getting stuck in.

 

[silentstriker]

Cricinfo - NZC eyes cash bonanza from India tour

 

[Flem274*]

Cricinfo - NZC eyes cash bonanza from India tour

Interesting. I agree with Vaughan there though, we need to keep looking respectable.

India are an awesome team to have around, pity they have Harbijan (sic) in the side.

 

[Smudge]

Wouldn't that stadium in Albany currently hold more?

Could have put the drop-in pitch there perhaps.

Possibly. Mt Smart probably would, too.

Side boundaries at both of those venues would be an absolute joke.

 

[_Ed_]

True, but they're hardly massive at Eden Park.