Very inexperienced bowling attack. Where was Duffy I thought he was in the squad?
Was always going to be a tough assignment for this team as India are stacked.
Great to see Kylo go so well though, fingers crossed his injuries are behind him and we can get an extended run of games now as he's world class
@booboo said in Black Caps tour of India:
280 + to win. Kinda thinking that's enough for them.
I think you are right.
Slow pitch hard to find boundaries and knowing Indian wkts if the first innings is like that it will get lower and slower.
Mitch has been batting it up in ODI's for the past while now.
His scores since Oct have been the following..
131*
84
119
44
56*
78*
then going back through 2025..
43
18
76
63
49
17
10
57
10
81
2
38
976 runs @ 65.06
2 x 100's and 7 x 50's from 19 innings
Its a shame no one really plays alot of ODIs anymore
Assuming now Mitchell has moved to #1 in the ODI rankings
after game one Kohli moved to 1 and Mitch 2 but they are only separated by a single point, 785 vs 784.
That's an absolutely outstanding result with a young team. How fucking good is Mitchell these days, just incredible.
Mitchell has really impressed in that tricky number 5 role where you have to play the situation in ODIs. He's prepared to dig in when the top order has failed and either build a decent total when batting first or see it through to the end if batting second. He's built a great international career for someone starting it aged 28.
@KiwiPie said in Black Caps tour of India:
Mitchell has really impressed in that tricky number 5 role where you have to play the situation in ODIs. He's prepared to dig in when the top order has failed and either build a decent total when batting first or see it through to the end if batting second. He's built a great international career for someone starting it aged 28.
its a shame his test record has gone backwards. Hasnt been able to consistently score 100's but his ODI record is superb so far
Only Kohli has a higher average amongst full nations sides.
@KiwiPie said in Black Caps tour of India:
Mitchell has really impressed in that tricky number 5 role where you have to play the situation in ODIs. He's prepared to dig in when the top order has failed and either build a decent total when batting first or see it through to the end if batting second. He's built a great international career for someone starting it aged 28.
He's like a Kiwi David Hussey
@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:
@KiwiPie said in Black Caps tour of India:
Mitchell has really impressed in that tricky number 5 role where you have to play the situation in ODIs. He's prepared to dig in when the top order has failed and either build a decent total when batting first or see it through to the end if batting second. He's built a great international career for someone starting it aged 28.
He's like a Kiwi David Hussey
Well in some ways but he's a fine test player too, poor old Hussey Jr never even got a shot despite an amazing FC record ( 14K runs @ 52 )
@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:
@KiwiPie said in Black Caps tour of India:
Mitchell has really impressed in that tricky number 5 role where you have to play the situation in ODIs. He's prepared to dig in when the top order has failed and either build a decent total when batting first or see it through to the end if batting second. He's built a great international career for someone starting it aged 28.
He's like a Kiwi David Hussey
Well in some ways but he's a fine test player too, poor old Hussey Jr never even got a shot despite an amazing FC record ( 14K runs @ 52 )
As with most analogies, it isn't perfect
The ship is generally being steadied by Mitchell and Young, but it has had at least one hairy moment between the wickets too.
@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India - 2026:
@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:
@KiwiPie said in Black Caps tour of India:
Mitchell has really impressed in that tricky number 5 role where you have to play the situation in ODIs. He's prepared to dig in when the top order has failed and either build a decent total when batting first or see it through to the end if batting second. He's built a great international career for someone starting it aged 28.
He's like a Kiwi David Hussey
Well in some ways but he's a fine test player too, poor old Hussey Jr never even got a shot despite an amazing FC record ( 14K runs @ 52 )
As with most analogies, it isn't perfect
I think you meant Mike Hussey?
@Biorealism said in Black Caps tour of India - 2026:
@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India - 2026:
@MN5 said in Black Caps tour of India:
@canefan said in Black Caps tour of India:
@KiwiPie said in Black Caps tour of India:
Mitchell has really impressed in that tricky number 5 role where you have to play the situation in ODIs. He's prepared to dig in when the top order has failed and either build a decent total when batting first or see it through to the end if batting second. He's built a great international career for someone starting it aged 28.
He's like a Kiwi David Hussey
Well in some ways but he's a fine test player too, poor old Hussey Jr never even got a shot despite an amazing FC record ( 14K runs @ 52 )
As with most analogies, it isn't perfect
I think you meant Mike Hussey?
Yep him too 
@Gunner said in Black Caps tour of India - 2026:
Mitchell with another
50100, the guy can bat.
This is quite a recovery effort. Some teams will be asking themselves why they didn't give Mitch Jr an IPL contract?
No one has scored more runs against Kuldeep than Mitchell that's also a pretty huge effort, hopefully we dont stuff up the last ten overs
@bayimports said in Black Caps tour of India - 2026:
think that's his first 100 too if Im not mistaken? great time to do it
Second isn't it?
Smithy reckons it's a perfect batting pitch. So 300+ may not be enough. But it's pretty good going after the start we had
@LABCAT said in Black Caps tour of India - 2026:
Yeah, hes got one already, maybe against Pakistan?
thanks second all good I have seen him get close a few times not many getting on with it.
A 100 on Indian soil always good
Fuck, both set batters go within a few balls of each other. That’s happened a lot recently with the BC’s.
Could cost us 20-30 runs
Was worried that if anyone got out in this partnership this might happen, hopefully we can still put some late runs on