We preview the upcoming three Test series between India and New Zealand – and also discuss England’s win over Pakistan in the Test in Multan.
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SpotifyTalking Points:
- The India-New Zealand rivalry down the years
- New Zealand in transition – after the retirements of Boult and Wagner
- Rachin Ravindra’s terrific 92 at Galle in the recent series v Sri Lanka
- New Zealand’s reliance on part-timers to fill in some spin overs
- Should New Zealand play to their pace strength in Bangalore and Mumbai?
- The Pakistan-England Test and what it taught us about bowling in Test cricket
- The batting-centric nature of cricketing discourse and why that is problematic
- Would a team with a world-class bowling attack and 6 ‘average’ batters win as much as a team with the same bowling attack and 6 great batters?
Participants:
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan (@sidvee)
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Kartikeya Date (@cricketingview) | Substack| ESPNcricinfo
Mahesh Sethuraman (@cornerd)
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Related:
- Will O’Rourke’s Canterbury Tales – Deivarayan Muthu – ESPNcricinfo
- A freakish ten-for and good old Indian dominance – 81allout review of the India v New Zealand series in 2021
- Two seamers or three? The big Black Caps question ahead of India tests -Andrew Voerman – Stuff.co.nz
- Why Pakistan Aren’t Winning, And Why Batting Is Irrelevant In Test Cricket – Kartikeya Date – Cricketingview Substack
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Great listen as always although it went on quite a bit of tangent, I was hoping for a memory podcast but no worries. My first experience of watching Ind-NZ was in 2002 on those green tops.
I was extremely surprised that some ‘journalist’ did not understand KD’s argument, quite a busy day on Twitter. many so-called cricket experts keep saying the same things, like criticising batters for playing aggressive shots and connecting it to mental weakness or fear and if they don’t, attaching it to the value system of courage and whatnot.
India wins more matches because of their bowling. The batting averages are lower in this era because the quality of bowling and pitches are different but also India plays far more matches against Eng and Aus and plays other teams in a shorter series. I believe this Indian batting lineup is better than the 2000s simply because it runs deeper, they bat at least till 8. Then this era has had better wicketkeeper batters than before and more importantly on average, Indian openers are better now at both ends. But I also believe, head to head Sachin was better than Virat, Dravid than Pujara and Laxman than Rahane and it’s not because of their averages. Sachin was clearly better everywhere, and Dravid was better especially away, Laxman was way better at home than Rahane still overall that lineup was not as good as this.