India Tour of New Zealand !!

Chances are it may rain again in Christchurch,not a good time to play cricket in NZ.

 

This D/L method make things so much complicated that one begins to focus on calculators instead of playing the cricket match in its normal way.

This bad scheduling of cricket is robbing us of good encounter!

Regards,

RightMan

 

Damn,The rain has been one of my most hatred stuff

I hate to see the match breaking up in the middle...

 

It will not be good if it rains there too.We want to see full match.

 

3rd ODI Tomorrow !!


Three sixes off the first three balls in New Zealand. Few statements of intent could be stronger. Virender Sehwag was in form and wanted to impose himself on the hosts. Yet that innings of 26 off 10 balls was perhaps his worst of the tour, for Sehwag has improved with every match, throwing New Zealand completely off their tracks. The bowler who suffered the attack, Tim Southee, is unlikely to play the third one-day international in Christchurch, but Sehwag is playing on every New Zealand bowler's mind.

Sehwag suffered from cramps during the abandoned second ODI in Wellington, giving New Zealand brief relief. And if he is suffering still - and it's hard to know with the Indian team's information dispensing system - he won't be getting any flowers or cards from New Zealand's bowlers.

New Zealand have been saying they have plans for every Indian batsman but the strategies haven't worked against Sehwag. They don't say what those plans are but perhaps the basic trick has been to bowl on the shorter side and into Sehwag's body - he has hardly scored in the 'V' - to give him no room, and frustrate him into errors. Although Sehwag was dismissed without causing irreparable damage in the Twenty20s, he hasn't been frustrated by the lines of attack.

In the first two ODIs, however, Sehwag has destroyed the confidence of the bowlers and stayed long enough to score fifties at strike-rates of 137.5 and 150. The short-pitched bowling has backfired on New Zealand: Sehwag has scored 109 of his 131 runs in the two ODIs square of the wicket, cover and midwicket - 63 of them on the leg side.

"We have to pitch it up a little bit more," Ross Taylor said. "We've been punished square, and the New Zealand grounds are very short square, so we have to get them to hit down the ground more. If we bowl a heavy ball and force them to hit down the ground more, it'll give us a chance and help us set fields as well."

The bowlers seem to be bowling to a plan, the fields are in place, but something goes wrong against Sehwag. "That's what destructive batsmen do," Daniel Vettori said after the second ODI. "They put people off their game plans. I wouldn't say intimidated, but you are fearful of what's going to come next. You are never sure what he is going to do, he is that good a player that he can hit all around the park."

One over from the second ODI summed up the bowlers' helplessness. After Sehwag had top-edged Kyle Mills just over the fielder on the long-leg boundary, he was tested with more short stuff. He fetched two deliveries from outside off and pulled them. The next was bowled short outside off stump with a strong off-side field. Sehwag cleared his front foot a bit to make room and cut it, generating power with his wrists to find the gap between two fielders stationed close to each other. Even the man at sweeper-cover didn't move. Such shots shred game plans, psyches and sprits.

New Zealand are almost desperate to win the toss and bat in order to avoid the pressure Sehwag puts them under right away. It is Sehwag's unpredictability and unconventional batting that they fear most. Vettori made an interesting comparison between tackling Sehwag and Chris Gayle. "I suppose with Gayle we have got a feel of where he is going to hit and have more opportunities to block him out," Vettori said. "With Sehwag, he has got so many quality players around him, so that gives him a sort of licence. It's not in just one area we can block with Sehwag, we have seen him hit in a lot of areas. He is a great player, and with great players the best-laid plans can go awry.

"I suppose the guys run in and maybe second-guess what's going to happen. We have got to tell ourselves that we have got to bowl in our area, and if we get hit from there we can live with that."

To spice things up the third ODI will be played at the AMI Stadium with its odd shape and extremely short square boundaries. Sehwag's fitness wasn't a source of concern for India on the eve of the match - Mahendra Singh Dhoni played it down - and in all likelihood he will be there to impose himself on the game again. New Zealand will just have to find a way past him.

 

I can't understand what you mean Shubi...whats this? Have they began playing or what??

 

Score Update: 3rd ODI India v/s. New Zealand

India has lost both Sehwag and Gambhir for 69 runs after 13 overs !
Yuvraj and Tendulkar are at the crease...

Regards,

RightMan

 

Well Sachin looks good today and I guess everyone got answer who was thinking that he should come no.4. Look at today's performance and I think India is going towards to 370+ runs today. Sachin is playing on 138 runs.

 

I want Sachin to break the world record today

Anwar has been eating that 194 space since 13 years now

I need Sachin to achieve that. God,dont get him out please..

MY BEST MAN!!

 

Well he was retired from the match at 163 runs otherwise we might see First Men's double hundreds on ODI Cricket.

India set 393 run Target for NZ.

 

A big score

 

It seems New Zealand openers have taken the cue from the Indian batsmen and are hitting the ball all over the park as well!

They have already scored 156/0 off 20 overs....

Regards,

RightMan

 

Atleat one wickets gone and hope Indian team will take 2-3 wickets soon.

 

India 392/4 (50 ov)
New Zealand 183/3 (25.6 ov)
India sure win this match

 

From New Zealand but don't really watch the cricket, so whats NZ's chance of beating India? How's india at cricket compared to new Zealand?

 

India is in good position and going to win the match.

 

New Zealand require another 118 runs with 2 wickets and 59 balls remaining

We are gonna win !!

 

Yes.India will win the match easily now.

 

Bowlers r not doing good .... New Zealand require another 62 runs with 2 wickets and 34 balls remaining

 

India won the match.