India v South Africa Sep 28-Oct 11 2022 (3 T20 Internationals & 3 ODIs)

[Registered User]

India didnt play that badly last night but its what happens when you get a team, that you have just put together for their first game against a team that has been playing as a group for a fair while.

After it looked early in their innings like India were gunna get smashed, it ended up being an entertaining chase

 

[NYRB]

After it looked early in their innings like India were gunna get smashed, it ended up being an entertaining chase

India were a real shot of winning it with 2-3 overs left. Samson probably needed to bit a bit greedier and take more of the strike.

 

[akkaps]

Avesh Khan really needs to be dropped from the Indian side. We tried him, it didn't work. Be done with it.

 

[akkaps]

Also really stoked that Shahbaz Ahmed is getting a run here.

 

[akkaps]

Going in one less pure bat, but playing with pure ar's to cover for that. One or two of them should be able to cover for the lack of batting.
Also gives us 6 genuine bowling options that could bowl 10 overs each.

 

[NYRB]

Game 3 delayed due to a delayed wet outfield.

 

[NYRB]

2nd oldest ground here in Delhi, oldest being the Kolkata Gardens.

 

[NYRB]

74 mm of rain on Saturday.

 

[NYRB]

I personally we get a full game today in Delhi.

 

[NYRB]

India won the toss and elected to bowl first

 

[NYRB]

Teams for the final ODI :

India (Playing XI): Shikhar Dhawan(c), Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan, Shreyas Iyer, Sanju Samson(w), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Avesh Khan

South Africa (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Janneman Malan, Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller(c), Marco Jansen, Andile Phehlukwayo, Bjorn Fortuin, Lungi Ngidi, Anrich Nortje

 

[NYRB]

South AFrica look a bit thin with the bat from 8 to 11.

 

[NYRB]

Also kudos for South Africa finally making the decision to get rid of Bavuma.

 

[ioppolo]

South AFrica look a bit thin with the bat from 8 to 11.

Phelukwayo can hold the willow alright

 

[NYRB]

beautiful by Malan , for his first boundary for 4 today

 

[NYRB]

Malan departs cheaply

South Africa 25/2 off 7.5 overs

 

[NYRB]

South Africa bowled out for 99 runs in the last ODI

 

[NYRB]

De Kocks face has shown disinterested throughout the whole tour.

He doesnt look like he wants to play cricket any more in all seriousness. Body language been shocking.

 

[NYRB]

beautiful dispatch by Dhawan, first boundary for him.

 

[NYRB]

beautiful by Gill down the ground

 

[NYRB]

Kishan with his first boundary for the night, lovely shot

 

[NYRB]

India 50 up in 9.3 overs


great time to be batting if your an Indian batter.

 

[NYRB]

Zimbabwe on what they showed in Australia last month, would give this South Africa team a run for their money right now.

 

[NYRB]

India would have posted 300+ if they had batted 1st today. Making it look effortless

 

[Coops93]

Just want to have a little whinge about how sh** the experience at Metricon was.

It really felt like they didn't want anyone at the game. There was next to no advertising locally, or anywhere else that I saw, so clearly they weren't trying for decent attendance to begin with. I spoke with several people during the day that didn't even know a game was on, let alone just down the road. Despite this, significantly more people showed up than they clearly planned for - which wasn't much as it was, as I'm sure was easily visible on TV. They had to end up opening up another section of the stands as there was too many people for what they'd allocated.

On top of this and adding to the feeling of being more of an inconvenience than a proper event, there was only 1 bar/food stall open to cater for everyone. The lines ended up being 40 people deep all night at these and you missed a significant amount of the game queuing for a $10 mid strength beer. Fantastic.

Piss poor effort by CA and by Metricon. I blame CA moreso as they are the ones that didn't advertise and would've organised with Metricon on what they wanted to cater for. Metricon would've only supplied what CA indicated they would've liked.

The whole thing felt half arsed and not even close to up to scratch for an international sporting match. It genuinely felt, and I mentioned as did several people I walked past/overheard, that they didn't actually want anyone at the game and we were an inconvenience to the whole thing. Shocking effort all-round and an embarrassment for the game.

Just thought I would provide an update to this, I actually contacted Metricon and left some feedback about the whole experience.

The General Manager of Metricon Stadium replied and confirmed that they set up based on advice provided by CA, obviously that turned out to be rubbish advice and they were left completely unprepared for the event.

He apologised and agreed it wasn't a good enough effort for an international sporting event, but alas they could only really act based on the advice given, which was woefully underestimated.

Great work CA, as usual.