England v New Zealand - Anderson fit

[CHAPPERS]

WORLD CUP, GROUP C, ST LUCIA:
England v New Zealand
James Anderson has been passed fit and will start for England in their World Cup opener against New Zealand.

The Lancashire seamer broke the little finger on his bowling hand during training on Wednesday, but has recovered in time to start the match.

He is likely to open the bowling with Liam Plunkett, who was picked ahead of Sajid Mahmood and Jon Lewis, while Ed Joyce was preferred to Andrew Strauss.

The tie should start on time despite 90 minutes of early rain in St Lucia.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

WORLD CUP, GROUP C, ST LUCIA:
England v New Zealand
James Anderson has been passed fit and will start for England in their World Cup opener against New Zealand.

The Lancashire seamer broke the little finger on his bowling hand during training on Wednesday, but has recovered in time to start the match.

How fit is fit though? Reckon if you bust (dislocated?) a finger on the hand of yer bowling arm on the Wednesday, you'd not be quite right on the Friday.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Delayed start @ 2:00pm

 

[Barrel of Fun]

1315 GMT: Latest news: we're definitely starting at 1400 GMT. Bingo. Good news for those of you worrying about Michael Vaughan's fitness - he's been jogging around for at least 10 minutes with no sound of twanging, tearing or snapping whatsoever.

 

[CHAPPERS]

England have been INSERTED by Fleming.

 

[CHAPPERS]

TEAMS:

England team
JM Anderson, IR Bell, PD Collingwood, JWM Dalrymple, A Flintoff, EC Joyce, PA Nixon, MS Panesar, KP Pietersen, LE Plunkett, MP Vaughan.


New Zealand team
SE Bond, SP Fleming, JEC Franklin, BB McCullum, CD McMillan, JDP Oram, JS Patel, SB Styris, RL Taylor, DL Vettori, L Vincent .

That is in ALPHABETICAL, not batting, order for those not ITK.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

I see the Beeb have the pessimistic, critical yet humourous correspondent on today:

1255 GMT: Here we go then - England's opening joust in this year's World Cup. And New Zealand's too, of course. To be fair, my brain's still fried from the madness that was Ireland-Zimbabwe last night - but the heady rush of adrenaline that comes with the chance to watch Jamie Dalrymple and Paul Nixon in action should soon sort that out.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Delayed start @ 2:00pm

That extra half-hour made all the difference. Anderson NOW fit

 

[Statto]

Lost a wicket alredy Joyce. 1-1.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Oh NICE ONE Joyce.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

Good start for our Sri Lankans yesterday THPP. To add to the quality they already possess this young guy Silva looks the business as well. I don't really see a weakness in their team.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

Crap shot Was he slashing at a wide one?

 

[Trigger]

Bring back STRAUSS!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Ed Joyce was preferred to Andrew Strauss.

Why?

Does anyone else think that 10 runs off 4 and half overs, with the captain scoring 1 run off 14 balls, isn't the best way to start the match?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Re: Re: England v New Zealand - Anderson fit

Why?

Does anyone else think that 10 runs off 4 and half overs, with the captain scoring 1 run off 14 balls, isn't the best way to start the match?

Sorry.

1 off 16.

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

oh dear lord

 

[Barrel of Fun]

You should expect nothing less than 75 (mini-minimum) from the power play session.

 

[¡Cereal Killer!]

30/2

 

[Statto]

Another wicket, Bell this time. 30-2.

A world cup dissaster on the cards.

Bloody english cricket eh?

 

[pasty]

Bell gone. 30/2