1st Test: India v New Zealand at Kanpur on Sep 22-26, 2016

[Bazal]

Well. Two quick wickets early, not a good start....thought Taylor was a little hard done by

 

[JJ]

Pitch doing a lot, the ball to Kane was vicious

 

[Twizzle]

Ball not allowed to touch helmet, black and white one, strange rule though

what helmet did it hit, it wasn't the batsman's helmet was it ?

 

[Twizzle]

ah, the domino effect, lose one lose a few

 

[JJ]

what helmet did it hit, it wasn't the batsman's helmet was it ?

Nah the fielder's...

 

[Twizzle]

dont remember seeing that

I saw the dismissal, went and got another beer, come back and he' till batting and thought wtf

 

[JJ]

He fumbled an easy chance, it bounced up and hit the grill and he caught it...

Not sure how I feel about the rule TBH

We're still in the fight which is good

 

[JJ]

Taylor's lbw was borderline, but Ronchi's there was heaps of doubt...

Lack of DRS suits them at home, I think

 

[Bazal]

Jeez that petered out a little meekly. All out 262. Need to rip through India here, this will be a dog of a pitch on day five imo

 

[JJ]

Yeah disappointing

Wickets often go in clumps for visitors in India, hard to start, needed more from top 4, sadly Guptill is rubbish, Latham made a poor mistake, Kane got a ripper and Taylor a borderline lbw early

 

[edabomb]

He fumbled an easy chance, it bounced up and hit the grill and he caught it...

Not sure how I feel about the rule TBH

We're still in the fight which is good

Yup. Umpires seemed to lose their poise and get a bit flummoxed by the appealing there. Sodhi had off and middle showing as it was sliding down leg.

 

[Bazal]

I thought Sodhi was out tbh, straightened down the line of leg. Taylor was unlucky but I think would have been umpires call in the event of DRS actually being used. Ronchi wasn't out, though, IMO

 

[Hutty1986]

What a shame, was hoping nz was going to really give it to these merkins.

 

[JJ]

Pretty f**ked now

 

[vvvrulz]

What a shame, but you're always in trouble when the pitch renders Ashwin & Jadeja unplayable.

Bring them to our side of the world and they're club level plodders

 

[Twizzle]

typical Indian pitch, they seem to be the only ones who can bat on this shit

 

[JJ]

Or bowl on them - we have three spinners, none have looked terribly dangerous

 

[Red Bear]

Or bowl on them - we have three spinners, none have looked terribly dangerous

crumbly, low bouncing pitches.

It's brought up alot when Australia bats over there, how they aren't used to (and then aren't willing to adjust to) that style of pitch. It's extreely true of bowling though. Spinner grow up using bounce as a central part of how they take wickets. They struggle without that bounce over there.

Indian pitches aren't great for the game IMO but pretty typical of test cricket in recent years (outside South Africa) - sides don't make the adjustment to conditions different to their home ones.

 

[Das Gupta]

Disappointing, but what do expect with crooked Indian pitches.

 

[hineyrulz]

Any pitch that makes Jadeja look like a decent bowler is a shit one.