***Official New Zealand in India Nov-Dec 2021 Thread***

[Fuller Pilch]

So many players could win motm. The 3 Indian spinners and Lyer, along with the 2 NZ seamers and Latham. GREAT test

 

[Athlai]

Is Latham the best opener at the end of 2021?

 

[Moss]

Well played Rachin, amazing temperament. Shout out to Ajaz and Somerville too, ended up contributing after all. Excellent show once again by India’s spinners, showed how to bowl on a pitch where you needed to work for wickets.

That said, worries for both sides on the batting front. Kohli returning will no doubt help the batting, but Pujara/Rahane must be on thin ice. Agrawal not kicking on either. Shreyas no doubt a huge plus.

For NZ, after Kane no one in the lineup seems to have scoring options against the spinners (barring Ravindra perhaps). Need the bowling unit to bring it once again in Mumbai, but I guess will take 0-0 for now!

 

[straw man]

Kane an educated man, says there were lessons to take instead of 'learnings'.

Also it was a good post-match interview from Ashwin earlier tbf, even though he must've been peeved.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Everyone talking about rachin but can we give tommy latham some applause. Two absolutely huge knocks, made 140 runs and faced near 400 balls, fantastic effort from him against the best team in the world in there backyard.

Against the 2nd best team in the world

 

[nzfan]

****... We drew .... Gave up and slept as soon as Kane got out. Thought I'll check what the heck. Did I miss the best test match in India from us ever? Jazzy and Rachin...

 

[Hurricane2]

Jazz is probably a better bat than Wagner even let alone being better than Tim

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

How am I meant to sleep after this?

Do you ever sleep

 

[Ghost]

Awesome result for India. Pushed the world champs the whole way but didn’t quite have the class to get across the line.

 

[Hurricane2]

Tim played his part in the draw by reviewing his plumb lbw to waste 60 seconds

 

[Heboric]

haha I love that they thank all the government departments in the presentation ceremony

Post match presentations in the sub-continent is an event in itself

 

[nzfan]

Yet another compliment to Kane, steady and go for picking Rachin.

Not so good Doull and the other pundits. They didn't even know probably Rachin can bat.

It's going to be a super tough choice to pick the team next time. Conway is going to be back too, Youngy is looking million dollars. Who wants to be Kane?

 

[straw man]

if there's a will there's a way, and we've got three

yes I stole that

so you're saying we should give Will Williams a game

 

[Flem274*]

Wow what the heck did I come back to?

Good work from both teams. Tough old game, with India resting batsmen and Ashwin + friends not finding the fizz they would like until the very end.

Good from NZ too, given they had no warm up and are missing their second most talented batsman through injury. Somerville and Ajaz look exactly like bowlers who haven't bowled red ball since March (well June in Ajaz's case). They have credit in the bank here with wins in the UAE and SL, and Ajaz contributed solidly to NZ A crushing England in the second test over there, so while I did feel grinchy earlier I think we still need to keep an open mind going into the second test. If it's a bunsen they play, if it's like this deck Wagner plays.

How ****ing good were Southee and KJ? Mammoth performances from both on a deck offering nothing. Southee could not have done this in 2016, and it was nice to see the Cheat Code following India to where they thought they were safe.

 

[Xix2565]

so you're saying we should give Will Williams a game

Can't have too many Wills.

 

[Nikhil99.94]

good performance from ravindra and Patel at the end.They handled the pressure of 1.3 billion people too (as in every post cricket fan of India mention while judging a Indian player??) and that should make it even better performance .

 

[thierry henry]

Ajaz’s innings is a massive boost for the one ball I bowled to him at indoor cricket, tucked him up on the hip and he could only manage a leg bye. Major moment in my life now

 

[Flem274*]

It's going to be a super tough choice to pick the team next time. Conway is going to be back too, Youngy is looking million dollars. Who wants to be Kane?

Wait what, Devon's back?

And I think it's pretty obvious both Conway and Young are in our top 5 best batsmen, but you're not dropping the senior pro at 37 before his glorious exit in front of a home crowd and Nicholls deserves more rope.

Ravindra is such an important cricketer for this squad. If or when he arrives with the bat he will take over 5th bowler and SENA spin duties and likely open too, allowing Conway to slide to the middle order and both Young and Nicholls to play once Taylor hangs up the boots.

 

[Hurricane2]

Cw has been tracking Rachin on this site since when ? 2014?
He finally debuted and the kid did good

Shout out to India for the spirit they played the game in. Hard fair and like gentlemen . Both these teams like each other and I predict there will be a BBQ at Ishant Sharmas house tomorrow night for both teams. Joke but probably true.

 

[karan_fromthestands]

Pretty impressed by the Indian spinners, slow wickets are a nightmare for spinners, although an odd-delivery keeping low was helpful towards the end, but Axar-Jadeja and Ash had to work their asses off to keep finding a way. Also, credit to the NZ pace bowlers, top quality stuff.