*Official* New Zealand in England 2021

[Magrat Garlick]

Tour match, 27-28 May, Southampton: Intra NZ squad
1st Test, 2-6 June, Lord's: England v New Zealand
2nd Test, Thursday 10-Monday 14 June (11am start), Birmingham: England v New Zealand

NZ squad: Kane Williamson (c), BJ Watling (wk), Tom Blundell, Devon Conway, Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Henry Nicholls, Rachin Ravindra, Ross Taylor, Will Young, Colin de Grandhomme, Trent Boult, Doug Bracewell, Jacob Duffy, Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Ajaz Patel, Mitchell Santner, Tim Southee, Neil Wagner.
England squad: Joe Root (c), Ben Foakes (wk), James Bracey (wk), Rory Burns, Zak Crawley, Dan Lawrence, Ollie Pope, Dom Sibley, James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Jack Leach, Craig Overton, Ollie Robinson, Olly Stone, Mark Wood. Injury cover added 26 May: Sam Billings, Haseeb Hameed

 

[Flem274*]

let's ****in go bois

hopefully a good series with england starting strong favourites at home imo

 

[Bahnz]

****ing covid, would’ve loved to have gone over and watched this. Maybe next year.

 

[Bahnz]

so what will the team kane v team latham sides look like? I’m guessing something like:

Latham, Rachin, Taylor, Mitchell, Watling, Bracewell, Jamieson, Southee, Ajaz

Conway, Young, KW, Nicholls, Blundell, CdG, Santner, Henry, Wagner, Duffy

with the coaching staff making up the numbers.

Looking forward to some more unnecessarily personal sledging between the skyscrapers!

 

[Flem274*]

school lunchtime rules. williamson and latham paper rock scissors for first pick then alternate.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

let's ****in go bois

hopefully a good series with england starting strong favourites at home imo

Really? With all their IPL players out and a side that lost at home to West Indies last year? NZ should take this 2-0.

 

[Flem274*]

anderson and broad are good to go boom at home once a series each, regardless of length. in a 2 test series, that's extremely dangerous.

 

[nzfan]

Bring it on...

Never been so nervous for cricket ever. This is going to be huge.... Can't wait. Work is going to take a beating. Long nights, depending on how the boys are going I'll probably be over jovial or quiet as.

Wifey and kids just don't get this madness. I'll probably keep the divorce papers ready and might as well look for a single room flat in town. Wifey may think I'm having an affair.

 

[Apex Predator]

NZ should win imo. Eng are missing far too many key players for this. Only one among Wood/Stone might play. Ideally they need both Broad & Jimmy to stand a chance

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Can see England taking a page from the NZ playbook and not picking a spinner. Something like:

1. Sibley
2. Bracey
3. Crawley
4. Root*
5. Lawrence
6. Pope
7. Foakes+
8. Overton
9. Robinson
10. Wood/Stone (1 Test each)
11. Broad/Anderson (1 Test each)

Decent looking Lions team that, with some added experience from Root/Branderson.

 

[hendrix]

Why is Doug Bracewell in the squad? Seems like a waste of a spot

 

[Kippax]

Taylor was really pushing for him in his commentary stint unfortunately, but I think Bracewell may've benefited from someone reading a lot into this game below.

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NZC keeps expecting everyone to put international 'A' cricket on as much of a pedestal as they do. They can't seem to tell when they didn't actually get a particularly solid opposition.

 

[Kippax]

Bracewell bowling in England could always work better this time btw, now that Jamieson has made it very obvious he won't be winning any back-of-a-length third seamer role back again.

I wouldn't be surprised if these conditions permit him to get good lbw shouts on left-handers and things like that again, let him recapture a little glimmer of the old 2011 threat.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Two test series are so lame

 

[Magrat Garlick]

England squad news

England pick uncapped James Bracey and Ollie Robinson, plus Craig Overton, for New Zealand Tests

Englands IPL contingent, including Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali and Chris Woakes, rested for Tests against New Zealand at Lords (June 2) and Edgbaston (June 10); Ben Stokes (fractured finger) and Jofra Archer (right elbow) ruled out of series, which is live on Sky Sports

www.skysports.com

Joe Root (captain), James Anderson, James Bracey, Stuart Broad, Rory Burns, Zak Crawley, Ben Foakes, Dan Lawrence, Jack Leach, Craig Overton, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Dom Sibley, Olly Stone, Mark Wood

Bracey, that is a bolter. Is that a sign Bairstow and Buttler will no longer have a test career?

edit: RIS had spotted the Bracey chat i see. But still, shuffling him up to open against Boult & Southee seems like exactly the same error NZ are doing with Conway

 

[vandem]

Why is Doug Bracewell in the squad? Seems like a waste of a spot

Which other seamer would you have picked?

Note at the time of selection it was assumed that Boult and Jamieson would be unavailable due to IPL, so likely 1st test lineup would have been Southee Henry Wagner + Bracewell/Duffy, injury cover from Duffy/Bracewell. They couldn't pick a young seamer (e.g. Sears) as they needed the 6th + 7th seamers seamers in the squad to be ready to slot into the playing XI as solid no-risk 4th seamer backup to the more experienced seamers.

 

[Bahnz]

Which other seamer would you have picked?

Bracewell's in as allrounder cover, but amongst NZ seamers, if Seth Rance were fit I reckon he'd enjoy a crack with the Duke. Fraser Sheat arguably also deserving of more recognition than anyone in the U25 group given his performances for Canterbury over the past couple of seasons.

 

[Athlai]

What is with England-NZ pointless Test series?

 

[TheBrand]

What is with England-NZ pointless Test series?

i know right. especially when NZ are supposed to go back there next year for WTC points anyway? good practice i suppose.

im just excited for test cricket again.

 

[Flem274*]

ferguson should be there