Fair dues. 76 from the last 10 and a half overs is great.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
- Thread starter Samid
- Start date
Feck, India are going to make Australia drop Zampa for Lyon here
In the end 57 off 70 is a trash innings.
Such a tame end to a promising innings
Great start for India but the problem is they haven't got the power hitters to up the pace from here. If they had a Buttler or Russell they'd be looking at 400.
(i say this hoping that someone comes in and smashes it everywhere!)
(i say this hoping that someone comes in and smashes it everywhere!)
Exactly the point myself and I think @Di Maria's angel are trying to make. Will hurt us as we go deeper into the tournament.
57 off 70 for an opener in a WC match is actually very respectable.
This is 2019, mate. 57 at a strike of 80 is an awful innings. Theres nothing in this pitch.
Zampa has a very good record against Kohli.
In this tournament the average opening score is 240. The pitch is slow with variable bounce. There's no movement obviously but it's not a 400 pitch.
Maybe I'm just a little worried 300 wont be enough. Bangladesh scored 330 here just the other day.
As for Rohit, if youre going to go that slow, you HAVE to go on and get a big hundred.
I’m with the others here, run a ball is a minimum requirement.
Yeah and in the subsequent match both Bangladesh and NZ struggled to get to 250. Rohit played a good inning. Not amazing but a good steady start
As I said earlier, you just have to go back 3 months to a series where Australia chased down 350 in our backyard without their best batsmen.
Loving Dhawan's innings.
Day night game. Makes a difference. Weather wasnt this good as well.
Batting is Aus strength so I think they would be happy to chase around 300. Though India have been bowling well so will be interesting.
Not sure why India batted first their lineup is great at chasing and would put the unbalanced Aussie bowling attack under pressure.
Rohit played a good innings. It doesn't matter if he got those next 40 runs at 120 or someone else is able to do it because he played a part in setting up a platform. The latter will happen most days.
What difference does that make? @KM is right, this isn't a 400 surface clearly. The other day people were dissing Roots inning against Pakistan. You have to look at the inning holistically. A partnership of a 100plus at almost 6 is a great start and Sharma played a good part in iit
We are 153-1 in 27 overs with Dhawan and Kohli batting and people are complaining about the scoring rate. 
Finch does manage his bowlers well, did a great job against WI bringing in his best bowlers for a few overs when required. Lot of other teams just save the block of overs for the end overs.
The game plan was clearly to see off their two gun bowlers and they did it perfectly.
Even Root scored just over a run a ball though.
Yep, definitely. They're playing Australia here, not Bangladesh. You have to play the pitch and the opposition.
And playing Australia is exactly why some are worried about the scoring rate. This same Aussie team went from 79-5 to 288 the other day.
Great knock from the tournament beast.
Quality innings from Dhawan
I guess India should score somewhere around the 330 mark.
Both our openers getting tons in the first two games is brilliant.
Cricket has gone down a level for me since the IPL. This has made India virtually untouchable & everyone else plays at a lower level than them.
Should do 350-360
Send MSD now
Aggressive to send Hardik
Huge drop!
How has he dropped that!
Great move.
Don't think Rahul will bat here, unless there's a collapse. Will be Yadav or Dhoni next.
Don't think that's true tbf. England and Australia are up at the same level and have both beaten India recently.
Kohli can hit a century here..