3rd ODI: New Zealand v India at Auckland, Jan 25, 2014

[Meth]

If I were you I'd be pretty pissed at your bowlers.

That garbage they dished up in the last 3 overs was why you didn't win. They should never have even got that close. Why the kiwis kept bowling that short shit and allowing India to just stand back and crack boundaries was just mind boggling.

Seems you blokes have never hard of yorkers. I was so annoyed watching the end of that game just watching your bowlers throw the game away.

Seemed to me like they were bowling without any plans despite have a conference between balls. If that was the plan then your skipper should be shot.

I think the big mistake was not having Southee and Bennett bowling the last 2 overs, instead of Anderson and McClenaghan

 

[Meth]

Question: why was Billy umpiring a NZ game? Or is that rule only for test matches? If it is onky a test match rule its understandable given the depth in umpiring ATM.

Not rare in ODI's.

Gary Baxter officiated in the ODI's v WI. Was responsible for THAT lbw

 

[Rod]

Pretty shattered about last night TBH. We robbed ourselves of a great moment. Well us and Jadeja not being given out.

And Twizzle is right about the bowling at the death. It was atrocious. The penultimate ball summed it up, Jadeja was just sitting back waiting for Anderson to dig it in short.

 

[JoeD]

The short stuff is a tactic and it worked a treat in the previous two games. The problem with Anderson's final over is that it wasn't short enough. Ie chest high rather than head high. People forget this is the 1/2 ranked team playing 6/7? NZ have played out of their skins to be 2-0 up after three and in an unlosable position in the ODI series.

 

[edabomb]

I think the big mistake was not having Southee and Bennett bowling the last 2 overs, instead of Anderson and McClenaghan

Second match in a row where B-McCullum has gambled with bowling out the best bowlers early - really poor tactic IMO given he still had a great chance of conceding them without bowling them out.

Also a bit strange Nathan McCullum was only given the 8 overs. He was doing a good job at the death, and with Ashwin gone could have surely snuck through another two quite cheaply. The Indian tail order was loving the ball coming on.

 

[Iafeta]

Not if they are bowled properly but therein lies the problem.

If you are going to err with a yorker its better to err on the side of full, low full tosses are harder to score off than a half volleys

At that level they should be capable of bowling yorkers.

How many bowlers do you see survive on Yorkers? If you bowl them batsmen will do something to change the length. Watch your ODI today. No bowler will focus purely on Yorkers. The other thing is back in the era when that bowling was effective, you were allowed one more back, couldn't bowl bouncers, and bats didn't have such massive lower middles. The other thing is batsmen through T20 have learned innovation against same type bowling. The trick is variety well executed. Yorkers sparing in or bowled wider if a batsman is moving awY, bouncers of varying speed at the shoulder and effective cutters.

 

[Twizzle]

The idea is not necessarily to get them out but stop them hitting boundaries and still the most effective way to do it for mine.

Obviously bowling short shit didn't work.

 

[Iafeta]

Not short enough or well directed enough. Whatever you bowl you have to be accurate. If they were accurate and Rod Tucker wasn't blind NZ would have been home comfortably