*Official* England in NZ 2023

[Croadymeister]

Thanks. You guys were very unlucky

Thought Jimmy had done it with the 4,why did he have to get anything on that

 

[OverratedSanity]

We can laugh at the declaration now lol

 

[Shri]

 

[ataraxia]

WAGner!

 

[Burgey]

Hard to give any NZ player MOTM here - all the best performances were on the England side, really. Brook, Root, Leach.

Blundell's second dig was pretty epic in the circumstances. Combine it with his keeping second dig and he would be a shout, though tbf no one really gets anything for their fielding/ keeping.

 

[honestbharani]

I mean ultimately the person who contributed the most to making this Test what it was was Stokes by enforcing the follow on

Nah it was obviously saltshakerz. England never stood a chance post his posts the other day.

 

[James]

The old saying now, you don't change a winning team.

 

[Nintendo]

This is honestly the brilliant part of bazball for the neutrals. Even if England lose the game is as entertaining as it could be.

 

[Spark]

Leach chickened out to be honest. He had many balls he could have hit and left it to a 40 year old that doesn't have the reflex or ability to pick the ball from the hand anymore.

We played pretty bad cricket the first innings but unbelievable comeback. We were destined to win I suppose despite making so many errors.

In fairness if you don't have the game to play the cross-batted shots properly then it is genuinely close to impossible to score runs safely against that sort of bowling plan.

 

[Slifer]

Nah it was obviously saltshakerz. England never stood a chance post his posts the other day.

Yup. I'm on my way to troll big time.

 

[CricAddict]

Hard to give any NZ player MOTM here - all the best performances were on the England side, really. Brook, Root, Leach.

Should be Michael Bracewell for making this an ATG test match instead of a normal win.

 

[Nintendo]

What do you do with Wagner now? Let him retire on the win or keep playing when he's clearly past his best?

 

[_Ed_]

This has had a very detrimental effect on my work productivity this afternoon, but holy **** it's been awesome.

 

[honestbharani]

Well done NZ. Amazing win. Hard luck England. NZ almost lose due to Macewall as well. Such an amazing game and incredibly small margins. Glad to have seen the last few overs live as well since Broad got out.

 

[Croadymeister]

Ultimately, a pretty arrogant follow on backfired.

Yeah shouldn't have done it,however gave us one of the most exciting finishes to a test

 

[Arachnodouche]

Have Eng finally entered the era of epic chokes ala SA or yours truly?

hardly a choke...they dragged the game back out of the coals at 80/5 and 200 odd/8.

 

[Shri]

 

[ankitj]

Why did England declare in first innings? 435 is no score to declare at lol

 

[cricman]

Does this test have impact WTC? Are Australia through?

 

[nzfan]

In fairness if you don't have the game to play the cross-batted shots properly then it is genuinely close to impossible to score runs safely against that sort of bowling plan.

Yeah but Leach had 6 balls and he had been there for a long time. He should have gone for it. You see the bazzball doesn't come to head when the pressure is on. Then it is a retreat. They should have been way more courageous.