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

[Flem274*]

you can sorta see it if you multiply Boult's age by 2.

 

[Pothas]

Yes Bumble, Kane does have a 'strange' action.

 

[straw man]

Alistair Cook

Ainsley Harriet

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Uncanny!

 

[Flem274*]

Two minutes in the box and already Atherton is getting patronising.

Makes me enjoy his career failures even more.

 

[Zinzan]

Looks like this all over again

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Decent start but a long way to go yet, nice to wake up and see a decent scorecard though.

 

[straw man]

Alright Compton, you've had your fun*, it's time to get out.

*boring me half to death

 

[Zinzan]

Two minutes in the box and already Atherton is getting patronising.

Makes me enjoy his career failures even more.

Pfft, Atherton was nothing more than a poor man's Mark Richardson.

 

[Zinzan]

How solid does Cook look when he's set. It's little wonder he's scored as many hundreds as he has at such a young age.

 

[straw man]

Sigh. Well done Cook and Compton - 70% of the way to 'crisis averted' here.

Legside strangle looks our most likely wicket.

 

[Briony]

Will peter out to a tame draw.

 

[Cabinet96]

England 167 & 139/0 (54.0 ov)

Madness really.

 

[Mike5181]

Alright Compton, you've had your fun*, it's time to get out.

*boring me half to death

You're not wrong, nearly fell asleep twice trying to watch these two bat. Think they're pretty safe here tbh. There's no way we're going to bowl them out in time.

 

[Zinzan]

Damn, missed the beginning of the great Geoffrey Boycott on the Dilmah TP

 

[Jezroy]

NZ thinking here has to be "Right, they still need to bat at least 90 overs to save this game, start again".

 

[Zinzan]

NZ really need to tighten their groupings and get the English batsmen driving more off the front foot towards the mid-off/cover region.

 

[BeeGee]

Excellent work from the openers.

NZ's score and this stand shows how good this pitch is. England's first innings being the anomaly.

 

[straw man]

We need to miraculously get three wickets this session and then use the second new ball to bowl England out - looks incredibly unlikely.

Cook should inject some interest by giving his wicket away.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

NZ thinking here has to be "Right, they still need to bat at least 90 overs to save this game, start again".

If we do then NZ are going to have some tired bowlers for the next test and ours will be nice and fresh.