***Official*** England in New Zealand series 2013

[stumpski]

Never mind 140, could have chased down 240 with batting like that. Clearly they had a good talking to after Hamilton. But a bit of a pity to have three such one-sided games.

 

[stumpski]

Odd presentation style here isn't it, the captains don't get interviewed, they just give a little speech.

And no man of the match/series?

 

[Neil Young]

lol, Munro waaaaaaay out of his depth. He was about 10 seconds late on that.

I think Munro should probably take up softball. He just swings from the hip without moving his feet. The Black Sox are missing a trick there.

Not an international cricketer.

 

[Hurricane]

I think Munro should probably take up softball. He just swings from the hip without moving his feet. The Black Sox are missing a trick there.

Not an international cricketer.

fwiw he's done better than cdg

 

[SilentOne]

lol @ McCullum getting booed.

 

[Neil Young]

Well played England.

Best bit on comms over here was when Nick Knight said to Ian Smith "Didn't I see you running up Mt Vic yesterday?" Smith replied, "That was probably a whale in the harbour you saw."

*awkward silence*

 

[Neil Young]

fwiw he's done better than cdg

cdg looks a better bet to me on this evidence. I haven't seen a whole lot of either, mind. My sample size is relatively small!

 

[Hurricane]

1) he really should be bowling as well. he is an average bowler (using average in a good way)
2) CDG couldn't catch up to the ball. While Munro has a 50. Munro has poor technique but good self belief.

 

[Neil Young]

Fair enough. I'll bow to your greater knowledge. If Munro's in Black, I'll back him to the hilt. He just didn't look up to it to me. But, then, neither did Andrew Jones.

 

[Hurricane]

Fair enough. I'll bow to your greater knowledge. If Munro's in Black, I'll back him to the hilt. He just didn't look up to it to me. But, then, neither did Andrew Jones.

Indeed he was all psychology. He was an average FC player until he started dating a psychologist. The two of them sat down and talked about the mind set for success and somehow that set up his career and he never looked back.

His first inning in a test in Aussie the channel 9 commentators wrote him off until he bounced back with a 150.

Worst ODI player ever though.

 

[Mike5181]

Munro's a completely different type of player to Jones tbf. He's aggressive, you'd never see him with a SR of 39 in test matches.

 

[Immenso]

worst odi player ever though.

wtf?

 

[Flem274*]

So I heard this went pretty well for NZ.

 

[Hurricane]

wtf?

His average was good granted. But he was selfish and would not rotate the strike quickly enough. In tests this was not an issue.

 

[Howsie]

I think Munro should probably take up softball. He just swings from the hip without moving his feet. The Black Sox are missing a trick there.

Not an international cricketer.

I still can't believe he's played test cricket, it honestly boggles the mind. He's the most gumby looking hack I've seen play in a long time, zero technique and it just doesn't help that he just looks like a munter either.

As for tonights game New Zealand were just bullied. Apart from McCullum not a single New Zealand batsmen has the backfoot game to take on Finn and Broad, it's just too easy for them.

 

[Hurricane]

I still can't believe he's played test cricket, it honestly boggles the mind. He's the most gumby looking hack I've seen play in a long time, zero technique and it just doesn't help that he just looks like a munter either.

He looks attrocious granted.

 

[Neil Young]

Munro's a completely different type of player to Jones tbf. He's aggressive, you'd never see him with a SR of 39 in test matches.

The comparison was the homebaked technique and initially looking completely at sea at int'l cricket. No more than that.

I was trying to see a silver lining!

 

[jcas0167]

Indeed he was all psychology. He was an average FC player until he started dating a psychologist. The two of them sat down and talked about the mind set for success and somehow that set up his career and he never looked back.

His first inning in a test in Aussie the channel 9 commentators wrote him off until he bounced back with a 150.

Worst ODI player ever though.

heh, I never knew that. I wish Jones had put out an autobiography as he seemed an intriguing character. Mark Richardson's book is quite good at discussing how he sorted his mental game.

Bit harsh about Jones as an ODI player though - IIRC he was pretty consistent at getting 50's at a time when a 220 score was competitive.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Brilliant analogy of McCullum's taking over of the team there.

Ha, quite. Very keen to hold his hands up and take on the responsibility of what shouldn't be his by right when other players more able to deliver what is needed were closer at hand. With hilarious/tragic (delete according to nationality) consequences.

Anyway, 10 wicket win with 7 overs to spare:

 

[Briony]

Poor show by the kiwis who've really had a wretched summer.