New Zealand in India

[mal]

Still batting 9/260 India
NZ must be rueing thier selections
2 fast bowlers
2 spinners
1 inocious larger than life part time slow meduim pacer

One fast bowler gets injured, the larger than lfe bowler injured
That leaves
1 fast bowler
2 spinners
2 wicketkeepers .....

How can they select HOPKINS and MCCULLUM in the same team ?

2nd test pick another bowler
OR
5/15
can become 9/260 all over again

PS
Mcullum is into his 2nd spell with the ball ....

[brod]

India v New Zealand
1st test
Ahmedabad

MATCH DRAWN

India 487
New Zealand 459
KS Williamson 131 (on debut)
India 266
Harbhajan Singh 115
VVS Laxman 91
CS Martin 5/63
LPRL Taylor 2/4
New Zealand 1/22

MAN OF THE MATCH - Harbhajan Singh

[CoverKing]

Start of the second test!

NZ won the toss and elected to bat

India with no change

NZ with 3 changes. Guptill, southee and Arnel in for Watling, patel and Bennett!

McIntosh kept his spot after getting a pair in the first game!

[CoverKing]

McCullum out for 4 caught dhoni bowled sreesanth! Absolute cracker!

Guptill then out to the same combination, to make it 2-23! Called back because it was a no-ball! Sreesanth follows up with another cracker and guptill plays and misses

[brod]

India v New Zealand
2nd Test
Hyderabad

TEA - DAY ONE

New Zealand 2/159
MJ Guptil 85
TG McIntosh 55* (151 balls)..im sure he doesnt care how fast he goes after a pair

[brod]

Suresh Raina has replaced Yuvraj Singh in the Grade A level - the highest - of the BCCI's list of central contracts for 2010-11. Virat Kohli, M Vijay and Pragyan Ojha have moved up to Grade B, while Rohit Sharma has been demoted to C. RP Singh and Munaf Patel, who were previously in Grade B, have not been offered contracts.

[brod]

India v New Zealand
2nd Test
Hyderabad

STUMPS - DAY ONE

New Zealand 4/258
TG McIntosh 102
MG Guptill 85
Z Khan 2/41

[mal]

Sachin Tendulkar needs 466 runs in the next 4 Test matches this calender year to break the calender year record
The record is currently held by Yousef
Tendulkar will have to face the South Africans after the Kiwis series

QUESTION
Will the little master make the runs ?

[sherminator]

It would take a brave man to bet against Tendulkar! I will be watching that India vs SA series closely. If Bollinger and Martin can trouble Indian batsmen on slow, crappy, dead sub-continent wickets, facing Steyn & Morkel on the 'Green Mamba' will be very, very interesting!

[brod]

India v New Zealand
2nd Test
Hyderabad

STUMPS - DAY TWO

New Zealand 350
TG McIntosh 102
MG Guptill 85
JD Ryder 70
Z Khan 4/69
Harbhajan Singh 4/76
India 2/178
V Sehwag 96
G Gambhir 54

Sehwag's wick description
It was a flighted delivery on the middle stump and he went down on his knee for the big slog sweep. Whoosh. The bat went through thin air and the ball went past it to fall on the middle stump

[mal]

India will make 550 + and win this game easily

[mal]

NZ 350
IN 9/436
SINGH 85*
SREESANTH 14*
VET 4/123 [45] bowled very well

Despite his recent golden run of runs he still averages less than 20 in Test Cricket

SINGH has now made 69,115,85 not out in this series
He is a very enetertining batsman to watch
He can defend and can then attack with his array of allsort strokes
He is averaging about 129.5 this series

The NZ quicker bowlers bowled a lot of short pitched deliveries at the Indian tail
Sreesanth was struck 3 times in one over by Southee

Ross Taylor was used as the 5th bowler
One of the reasons why NZ cant finish of the last 2 Indian innings in this series is becoz of thier stoopid selection policy of picking Hopkins and Mccullum, 2 keepers in the line up
Mccullum a very good limited overs batsman, is not a frontline opening Test Batsman in my opinion
They should go for broke and select another bowler

PS
Thank goodness for this last wicket stand it gets me within 114 of my predicition

[mal]

IN 472
SINGH 111* [116]
Singh makes back to back 100s batting at 8
Just shows why sub continent batters have high averages
Singh now averages almost 150 this series
VETTORI 5/135[49.4]

NZ 350
NZ 1/131
MCCULLUM 73* [101]

NZ lead by 9 runs

[CoverKing]

Did MAL say McCullum should not be a test opener? Or was I hearing things?

[Media Park]

Did MAL say McCullum should not be a test opener? Or was I hearing things?

Could be a new sig for someone, Coverking...

[mal]

Everyone gets an opportunity to improve thier batting averages in India
Wicketkeepers and off spinners included

NZ 1/166
MCULLUM 94*[129] another NSW player selected to play Test Cricket ...
GUPTIL 17*

[Media Park]

Everyone gets an opportunity to improve thier batting averages in India
Wicketkeepers and off spinners included

NZ 1/166
MCULLUM 94*[129] another NSW player selected to play Test Cricket ...
GUPTIL 17*

Well he just got his ton...

[Media Park]

Averaging 81 this year (Has only played 5 Tests thought)

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... ;type=year

[mal]

Well done to Mcullum one of the very best keeper batsman seen in Test Cricket

53/2230 this series GUPTIL out

Mcullum 180 series runs
Singh 295 series runs

NZ 2/174

[mal]

Averaging 81 this year (Has only played 5 Tests thought)

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine ... ;type=year

Wait for 25 Tests as an opener and when he averages 35 as an opener remind me