India Tour of New Zealand !!

wow...You seem to have a crystal ball with you..
Can you please tell me what is the Sensex closing figure for today...It would help me to concentrate more on this upcoming T20 match rather than my trading screen!!

No chance...my wife would never allow me to be awake at those times...not even to earn online...(so..cannot even dream to watch cricket..then )

Regards,

RightMan

 

First T20 match is already underway and after 2 overs...India is 25/1 with Gambhir getting bowled...way too early!

Regards,

RightMan

 

Sehwag and Gambhir Gone.

 

India did well to recover from 60/6 after a bad start...and ended up scoring a modest 162 in 20 overs...

Bowlers have a daunting task of restricting the kiwis to under 162 on this small ground..!

Regards,

RightMan

 

Not a good Umpiring again,Martin was out first ball he faced from Irshant,Umpire did not give it.

 

India has a bad start to this series...

New Zealand won the first T20 fairly easily....I think the Indian batsmen did not do their job and were easily 30-40 runs short.....

Hopefully....this is just a one odd day!

Regards,

RightMan

 

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

 

Let see other matches. Forget about this one.

 

Good batting by Raina And McCullum.

 

24 sixers..highest in a T20 International match..with a ground size of a postage stamp..anything's possible

 

Yes and I think we would see some strong reaction of this results in second T20 match. Dhoni's men will try to beat them in second match.

 

It is not a good start for India as they lost their opening T20 match against Kiwis. Hoping for a better match next time and expecting India to level the T20 series by 1-1. Anyways, it was a good game altogether today, isn't it?

 

lets hope for the best from team india who are in amzing form after the srilankan tour

 

Dhoni was rightfully critical of all the batsmen who got out trying to hit sixes off every ball...
He has already informed that he wants at least one batsman to show resilience and stay till the end...He advised his team mates not to copy the shots of an in-form batsman and try to hit the ball out of the park..(I guess..he was hinting at other guys not to copy Sehwag )

Regards,

RightMan

 

Yes and I am sure 10 players will take this note except Sehwag as he plays on his own style and no one can stop him. He wants to hit every ball.

 

The second leg of the New Zealand summer has got off to a fiery start and raised expectations all round effective Friday, when the two teams meet again. The Indian superstars, the world Twenty20 champions, will be under pressure to put up a performance worth that status. The New Zealand bowlers will be under pressure to give the home side a more 'precise' start, as Daniel Vettori put it.

In either case, there's little time to relish a win or pick up the pieces after a loss. Even before the match presentations had ended last night, the groundsmen had started taking out the portable pitch - there's a rugby game scheduled at the AMI Stadium on Friday. The day after a late game there wasn't enough time for the teams to travel to the Westpac Stadium here and check the conditions. New Zealand practised at the Basin Reserve, Wellington's Test ground, soon after landing, and India gave training a miss.

And all this for three hours' cricket. Twenty20 games can be a bit like a Christchurch-Wellington flight - more time goes in reaching the airport, checking in, and waiting for the aircraft, than the actual 30-minute flight. For India it will be more of a mental check-in before they go in to try and save the series. The first question will be, do they play an extra specialist bowler? The ease with which Irfan Pathan was taken for runs on Wednesday could outweigh his value as a batsman.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni wasn't too displeased, though, with the XI India fielded in the first game. "With an extra seamer the batting order is not as long and as deep as you would prefer in a Twenty20 game," Dhoni said. "I was quite happy with the kind of combination that we played." It will be interesting if Dhoni goes in with one of the potent pair of Munaf Patel or Praveen Kumar.

And India don't see the first loss as a big setback. "Setback? For the first game? It's not a setback," Yuvraj Singh said. "It's the first game of the series. We've got five one-dayers, three Test matches, another Twenty20, it's a long tour, so we're all geared up for it." Dhoni also said that, batting errors notwithstanding, his side learnt very quickly. "One thing for sure is we have learnt a lot from our mistakes. If we don't commit these mistakes again we have a very good chance."

Vettori, though, will want more of the same from Wednesday night: precise bowling, quick fielding and sensible batting. And Vettori himself will be the key bowler. Among bowlers who have played more than eight Twenty20 internationals, Vettori is behind only Umar Gul in terms of economy rate. And though the format is still young, those two have been the best bowlers in Twenty20 internationals. It is a testimony to his skill that he did well at the ridiculously small AMI Stadium.

"I think Harbhajan [Singh] and myself bowled pretty well," Vettori said. "Sometimes you have to flatten out a little bit because you know a mis-hit can go for a six. We go to Wellington next, where the boundaries are a bit bigger and we can bring more out of our repertoire."

Vettori will want something else too - killer instinct. And not a repeat of what happened in Australia, when they waited for mistakes from the opposition. "We've had a lot of drawn series here in the last couple of months," Andy Moles, their coach, said. "We are about winning, and it is about trying to become a winning side. Obviously we need to move forward and do that."

Apart from the expectations from the teams, the whole game will have to live up to a challenge. If Friday's game can match in closeness the pyrotechnics of the first T20, we are off to a great start to the tour.

 

Tomorrow match will start at 11 AM or 11 30 AM? I am asking the time when first bowl will be bowled not toss,pitch report etc.

 

SMS huh?? ROFL..

BTW, I liked your earlier avatar better.

 

Why SMS,just call me as i will be sleeping.

 

Bhaiya! HEHE ! ROFLOL !