NZ won the toss and are bowling, lovely weather......tough day ahead for the England batters I reckon.
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[Cricket] New Zealand V England 2nd test official match thread
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Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
6/1 Cook out - past his prime but no adequate replacement
bobby baxter
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- Jan 31, 2014
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Cook gone!
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Decent delivery but he was nowhere near it, no foot movement. Poor.
- Apr 5, 2014
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He'll have another five failures but then score a double hundred to secure his place for the next year until this conversion runs again...
BensGrandad
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Bairstow opens in limited overs could he not be tried in a 5 day test?
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This. One more test and he overtakes Border in no. of consecutive tests played
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Tough gig if you’ve been keeping wicket for maybe a day, day and a half. It’s a no from me.
- Apr 5, 2014
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Stewart grew into the role. But he was a special breed.
BensGrandad
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I was going to say the same but beaten to the punch.
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
38/2 Vince out
BensGrandad
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FFS Where have all our decent batsmen gone, Limited over cricket is to blame for the demise of our test team I tell yer.
LamieRobertson
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Just equalled the last matches first innings with only two down.....hope yet
Pavilionaire
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From 78/2 to 94/5. England lok set fair to lose 6 out of 7 tests. Questions need to be asked of Trevor Bayliss here.
larus
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Ended on 290/8. Mainly thanks to YJB and Woods.
YJB 97 n.o.
Woods 52.
At least we stand a chance of posting something we can try to defend.
YJB 97 n.o.
Woods 52.
At least we stand a chance of posting something we can try to defend.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
So any thoughts on why Root dropped back to 4 when all winter we've wanted to seem him at 3?
He got a 50 in the 2nd innings last test batting at 3, which could have set us on our way to saving that game. I realise Vince has come in, but I'd really liked to have seen the captain stick his neck out and get in as early as possible to bat in between the inexperienced top order. Root wants to play at 4, but all winter we've been batting from a position of sub 50-2. I really think he needs to drop his obsession with batting at 4, and just get himself in there.
He got a 50 in the 2nd innings last test batting at 3, which could have set us on our way to saving that game. I realise Vince has come in, but I'd really liked to have seen the captain stick his neck out and get in as early as possible to bat in between the inexperienced top order. Root wants to play at 4, but all winter we've been batting from a position of sub 50-2. I really think he needs to drop his obsession with batting at 4, and just get himself in there.
severnside gull
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"We're shit and we know we are" .............all out for under 300 first thing tomorrow then.
Feel for Joe Root. Not really ready or prepared for the job and there's a real risk it will drag him down.
Feel for Joe Root. Not really ready or prepared for the job and there's a real risk it will drag him down.
severnside gull
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To use a football analogy (seems appropriate on here) and without being extreme, isn't it rather like asking Dunk to play in front of the back four, or Knockaert to play in the centre rather than the wing?
We might think it a good idea. It might work. Then again it might not.
But if they don't really fancy it the chances of it succeeding are surely greatly reduced.