Mauling
10 wickets is as bad a loss as you can suffer when you are defending in an ODI, but that doesn’t begin to describe yesterday’s mauling. After all, if the rain hadn’t intervened, India may have lost a wicket or two chasing down the full total, and the official margin of victory would have been even less representative. I see that India were 84 runs in excess of their D-L target when the game was called off.
As meaningless as the exercise is, it is rather mindboggling to compare India’s innings last night with their innings at Christchurch, where they scored the highest ODI total ever scored in New Zealand. After 23.3 overs, from which they scored 201 yesterday, in Christchurch they were 139/2. If last night’s innings had been allowed to unfold to as it had in Christchurch, they would have scored well in exces of 500 over 50 overs.
As I say, a meaningless exercise (try extrapolating NZ’s innings in this game over 50 overs), but it does make you wonder just what this Indian team is ultimately capable of.
March 12th, 2009 at 8:57 am
what are these two openers capable of
March 12th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
i don’t know what more reason india require to persist with this opening combo…
March 13th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
I don’t think testing the bench strength is a good idea, because the Tests are still to come. The campaign is still halfway through. Keep the boot down IMHO. Sehwag needs to keep kicking them
March 14th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
I don’t think testing the bench strength is a good idea
Hi Nguyen. You seem to be replying to your own post on your blog rather than to mine.
Still, welcome to Crucket.