3 for 23.
A batsman who wasn’t good enough to be in the same post code as the ball, but was given out anyway.
A classy looking batsman who never make any runs doing his thing.
And a ginger bloke playing what can only be described as a “get it away from me” fend off his face.
It wasn’t pretty.
The commentators kept saying it was a flat deck.
Even after each wicket.
Then Jesse came out, and he has a way of making all wickets look flat, I apologise for that pun.
But he does.
And while Ross Taylor was flailing around like ice addict at a racist police officer.
Jesse was just class.
He puts away bad balls, he looks cool doing it, he should be on t shirts.
Jesse, and Ross, got a bit of help with a keeper without match practice, Dravid’s continued wideness and slowness at slip, and Yuvraj looking cool and catching nothing, New Zealand is now well and truly in this game.
There is also no doubt that India look lost without Dhoni.
Taylor did spend some time looking great at the crease, then he got to 99 and had a Michael Slater/ Greg Blewett/KP/Sachin type brain fuck.
How He didn’t go out, or run Jesse out in the 3 or 4 overs it took is beyond me.
India’s day can be traced through two moments, Yuvraj coming on and getting smashed, yet, still almost getting Taylor, and Munaf Patel’s primal scream as Jesse guided one through the near vacant slips cordon.
But the common denominator with New Zealand looking good and India looking bad is our boy Jesse.
He can even make God look bad.
JESSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE…. Jesse came out, and he has a way of making all wickets look flat ! hehe nice ! ;)
Jesse, Ross both in the BRC IPL team ! hmmmmm.. interesting ! with the wall taken of captaincy, KP available for just 2 maximum 3 weeks.. These two hv lots to play for !
Ryder and Taylor have been mates since they were 5. And it’s no coincidence that they’ve ended up in the same IPL / SAPL side.
They come from a town that has produced no cricketers before, and has as its only claim to fame the fact it hosts the national sheep shearing comps. Yes, true.
Taylor has always been the smart one.
But today the roles were reversed.
He was really good. Didnt think he would be so confident in defence, even against spin.
jesse ryder really adds weight to this new zealand line-up.
he is scoring the bulk of the runs at the moment.
he’s really proving to be a huge figure.
he’s really fat.
Absolutely LOVED the Jesse’n'Ross show. And Sehwag is wank at field placing
I guess God will have to do all the work himself instead of depending on mere mortals to do stuff for him.
Sehwag in the slips tomorrow. If you want something done, it’s better if you do it yourself.