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Mike India is in New Zealand for a few weeks.5 Odi games to be played.Look fwd to watching these matches.

Yes these will be good contests, particularly on seaming NZ wickets I think the Kiwis may give India a run for their money.

mikeh wrote: Yes these will be good contests, particularly on seaming NZ wickets I think the Kiwis may give India a run for their money.

Yep Nz are very hard to beat at home..India with only 1 warm up match+big crowds tipped for the series.

True NZ are a tough but to crack at home....but India are playing here in late Jan not Nov or early Dec....pitches are a bit drier, weather, for here, is warmer.....plus SL attack was average and no Kohli, Dawan, Sharma or Dohni in the SL batting line up.....so big step up in class for the Kiwi side.....only way the Kiwis will win if all those above have had their fill and go off the boil.....guys like Grandehomme, Neeshsham and Bracewell usually struggle when the quality goes up a notch....Williamson and Taylor will always do well regardless the opposition..

At last some common sense has finally prevailed in adding Patterson to the Test squad now can they actually possibly even pick him in the XI as he is actually the in form batsman!

why is Head still in the team?
to be fair, India out played us more in the tests than the ODIs. Australia could have won the ODI seies had Marsh and Max well batted longer in one match.
the only problem with Patterson is that he due a failure somewhere along the line.

Ark, if Paine hadn't had a brain implosion in the 2nd innings of the first test, Aust could of won that match instead of going down by 34 runs.....also winning the toss in either of the last two matches could of changed events too.....especially after winning the toss in Perth and winning after having the better of the conditions showed Aust were capable of beating India.....not saying they deserved too tho.....as for Head.....got a start in every game, had brain fades to get out, which is why he averages mid 30s in first class.....never seems to go big.......technical? mental?....just needs to overcome this anomaly....I think if Head replicates this v SL then he may struggle getting on the plane to Eng......as much as Patterson is "due" a failure....the likes of Harris, Uzxie and Head are "due" a big score perhaps.....if they do go big tho, folk must remember it's only v SL pop gun attack....watched the likes of NZ boys in Latham and Nichols go big v SL recently.....doesn't mean they are any good TBH.

Freezin wrote: True NZ are a tough but to crack at home....but India are playing here in late Jan not Nov or early Dec....pitches are a bit drier, weather, for here, is warmer.....plus SL attack was average and no Kohli, Dawan, Sharma or Dohni in the SL batting line up.....so big step up in class for the Kiwi side.....only way the Kiwis will win if all those above have had their fill and go off the boil.....guys like Grandehomme, Neeshsham and Bracewell usually struggle when the quality goes up a notch....Williamson and Taylor will always do well regardless the opposition..

Freeze-Taylor is ranked the no2 Odi batsman behind Kohli.According to Cric Info.

Head and Cummins Aust new VC.....strange Lyon didn't get the nod......

Freezin: good post, I agree with most of it, but would add that, in all likelihood, India would have won the last test so in that sense the series score line flatterred us a little.

I saw something about Latham, how many did he make? Your right about NZ pitches at diffrerent times of year, flat as cricket pancakes when the sun is out. Greg Chappell, Doug Walters, Adam Voges and many more have made a lot of runs in NZ, as you would re-call. Happily, NZ ha produced the great Sir Richard Hadlee and some other useful bowllers along the way.