🏏 Cricket World Cup 2023: Match #41: New Zealand vs Sri Lanka 🏏 - Page 4

Devon Conway: Nice to have a couple of days off. We played some golf. We played our last game here. We have some good memories. We played well against Pakistan. We are trying to stay consistent as possible. Couple of results didn't go our way. It is about being consistent. trying to do better in the coming games. As a team, we don't have much differences in the batting and the bowling. We try and back each other as much. It is not our batters versus the bowlers.

SL batters and NZ batters have the task cut. The brawns for a change will be preferred over brains here. That day even 400 looked chaseable. I don't need to elaborate much. Every run counts at the Chinnaswamy. NZ are at the last hurdle. They can't trip here. Else the finalists from 2019 stand a chance of elimination. SL have been all over the place but they want a ticket for the 2025 Champions Trophy as well. If they don't win today, they run the risk of being TIMED OUT for that flight. The boarding passes for a few teams are ready. NZ don't theirs this early.

Rahul: "Having lived in Bangalore for many years now, I can tell you there is no chance of raining till around 5 but after that, if rain starts, it may not even stop. It may not be heavy rain all the time but constant drizzling is very common in Bangalore. (P.S. I had posted similar comment during NZ vs Pak match too but you ignored and then we had the same situation) "

Which team looks easier to face for India  - NZ or PAK????

Mustafa Moudi: "Hope New Zealand finally get rid of Conway and Bring Young back. Following his unbeaten daddy hundred in the opening match, Conway has done nothing significant and he cant just play the whole tournament on the back on that solitary performance !!" Big call that eh?

 It is a batsman's game and every inch of the grandeur in Bengaluru makes you realize that. Flat wicket. Short boundaries. The ball flying around. Fielders are aberrations. Cricket gets reduced to a boxing game where two boxers don't jab at each other but at the punching bag - sadly the bowlers.

Pitch report by Mark Howard and Sanjay Manjrekar: "There's been heavy thunderstorms in the last two or three days. Groudsmen say it should be okay today though. Still 80% chance of precipitation. Square boundaries are not large, 67m to one side and 60m to the other. Pitch is a batting beauty. Least pace reduction off the pitch here in this World Cup which means it comes on to the bat better. Captains will be desperate to chase. Cloudy and humid right now but no rain."

New Zealand have won the toss and have opted to field

Thanks for the tag, Madz!❤️

NZ won the toss and elected to field first. 

I think, it is a strategic mistake!!! 

Gary Stead giving some slip-catching practice to Conway, Neesham and Daryl Mitchell.