Blogs Will India Continue Their Form In The NZ Series??
February 18th, 2009 by prashantAt the moment the Indian Cricket teams (Tests, ODIs, T20) have been performing consistently, both at home and away. Will they take that momentum and improve on their past “mediocre” at-best performance while playing in New Zealand?
While listening to a couple Cricket talk-shows I have heard a few different opinions. Some people think that India will “clean-up”, both the Tests and ODIs. Some think that it is the Final-Frontier for the Indian team and then there are others who are a bit more skeptical.
I belong to the “more-skeptical” category. Any side is more dangerous when playing at home, but the conditions in NZ are specially dangerous. The wickets there could be considered as opposite of that in India and the not-so-glamorous NZ bowling attack can prove more than handful. Of course this time around the Indian pace bowling attack is pretty potent and it could become the battle of batting experience and there India does have a significant upper hand (at least on paper).
So if we look at the ICC rankings, then in the ODIs, it is a battle between the #3 (India) & #4 (NZ) and in the Tests, it is a battle between #3 (India) and #8.
Let’s see which team plays according to these rankings….
February 19th, 2009 at 1:47 am
I hope they do improve on their last performance, that was sooo dis-heartening…
February 23rd, 2009 at 9:47 am
Hi Prashant!
Our bowlers can come good on the bouncy NZ pitches. But the concern will be the batsmen. Will they resist toying with the moving ball, Tendulkar included? The pitch and windy conditions will assist NZ fast and swing bowlers. If the batsmen can leave the balls moving away and handle the ones moving in well, and judge the difference then we will win.