**Official** New Zealand in England

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50. Good man.

 

[Richard]

Phew. Would have been gutted to see How fall four short of a well-deserved 50.

And TBH I'm annoyed he's now got a half-century he should have fallen just short of.

Let's hope we get him again soon and this time it's held.

 

[GIMH]

Monty

 

[Manee]

Monty with a crucial wicket. I'm not sure how, but he keeps churning out the wickets.

 

[Richard]

With the forums appearing to be working again... MSP gets Taylor. Don't know if we'll ever be able to say for certain there, and as such I think you can say that should've been n\o. That's even-up for MSP, but England are now 2-1 up in "luck with let-offs\saw-offs" stakes. If we do win this, I think NZ can say we were helped by Umpires legitimately.

Unless, obviously, we lose 4 wickets in our run-chase to baddies.

 

[Manee]

With the forums appearing to be working again... MSP gets Taylor. Don't know if we'll ever be able to say for certain there, and as such I think you can say that should've been n\o. That's even-up for MSP, but England are now 2-1 up in "luck with let-offs\saw-offs" stakes. If we do win this, I think NZ can say we were helped by Umpires legitimately.

Unless, obviously, we lose 4 wickets in our run-chase to baddies.

How was it not out?

 

[Halfpast_Yellow]

Hope How manages to get on the honours board for his 27th birthday. And Brendon makes up for not being on there first innings and 2004!

And with that I'm off to bed

 

[Bahnz]

How was it not out?

Taylor inside edged it.

 

[Richard]

How was it not out?

Actually, having spotted the fact it carried to slip... and in any case on HotSpot that there was no contact between bat and ball...

I guess that was out and fair enough.

If he had it it he should've been caught slip, presuming he didn't that he was plumb lbw.

Whack!

 

[GIMH]

With the forums appearing to be working again... MSP gets Taylor. Don't know if we'll ever be able to say for certain there, and as such I think you can say that should've been n\o. That's even-up for MSP, but England are now 2-1 up in "luck with let-offs\saw-offs" stakes. If we do win this, I think NZ can say we were helped by Umpires legitimately.

Unless, obviously, we lose 4 wickets in our run-chase to baddies.

If there is a chase and it looks juicy I'm considering sending myself home from work

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Taylor inside edged it.

You can say that he should be out caught then.....

 

[Richard]

Well, McCullum is off. Be ITSTL to see how this works-out.

 

[GIMH]

This is make-or-break. If we get him before lunch then I believe we will win, and if we get him in the first hour after lunch...it's possible. If he bats longer than that, thoguh, game over for mine. See KP @ Oval 05.

 

[Richard]

Bloody hell, he's living dangerously here.

Think David might just have been right.

 

[Bahnz]

Oh for goodness sake can't he at least wait untill lunch?

 

[GIMH]

It's well annoying when How is batting and you're cricinfoing. Every time I flick onto it, I keep thinking they are asking how, like "how was that not out?" etc

 

[Richard]

How should be gone, of course. If he had been, we'd be right in there right now.

 

[Richard]

Oh for goodness sake can't he at least wait untill lunch?

Interesting the number of times he's pulled away - apparently due to chat. So plenty of big words flying around it would seem.

Reckon he'll last until Lunch now though TBH.

 

[Richard]

WoW, that 1978 game was fascinating.

 

[wpdavid]

I think 4 down was our minimum requirement if we want to win the game. Given the strength of NZ's lower order, even that might not have been enough. As it is, it's going to take something astonishing for NZ to lose this now, and I don't think England have anyone good enough to make that happen. I still think it was poor captaincy to leave Anderson on as long as he did: 90 minutes or so is a heck of a long spell. Probably not the deciding factor though.