Cricket: New Zealand at home
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Cricket: New Zealand at home
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snot looking good! and a bit of a shambles behind the scenes....
So apparently that batting change wasn't a deliberate move by England - Moeen Ali was batting in the nets and couldn't get his kit on in time to make it out there. Shambles doesn't do it justice - if this series is Paul Farbrace's audition for the permanent job of England coach, that's the equivalent of fluffing your first line and then tripping over part of the set.
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blimey - looked 5mins ago and it was 48-4
now it's 80-4!
now it's 80-4!
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blimey and (indeed) charlie! root and stokes are not hanging about!
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325-6 from 30-4 is a fine recovery! looking like England's day now...
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Just seen the highlights. Butler out on the last ball of the day to leave us 354 for 7. As has been said, a good recovery.
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Bit weak in the tail end, but 389 all out anybody would take. Middle order were the heroes.
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After the raffle that was the England innings, New Zealand seem to be playing conventional cricket: Openers and front order get decent scores till one is cracked then play a predictable decreasing procession of score and skills and finish up just over or short of 300. Well, at least that's the plan.....
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We're playing New Zealand FFS. I'm surprised that they can get a side together, let alone one capable of giving anywhere else a run for its money!
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aye... yet they are currently 2 places above us in the ICC test rankings...Bruce Rioja wrote:We're playing New Zealand FFS. I'm surprised that they can get a side together, let alone one capable of giving anywhere else a run for its money!
beating someone above you is always a challenge...
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Looking a little better. Two wickets in a few minutes. 148-2 and Guptil gone.
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aye - we needed them!TANGODANCER wrote:Looking a little better. Two wickets in a few minutes. 148-2 and Guptil gone.
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287-2 is looking very er, not so good.
Make that 303 for 2 at stumps. Decisive early morning assualt needed.
Make that 303 for 2 at stumps. Decisive early morning assualt needed.
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Luck is certainly on the side of the Kiwis this morning - if that review had gone in our favour you could say it's been a decent session for England.
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Worst three words in cricket.."Rain stopped play". Hope it soon clears and we can balance things up a bit. How many they'll lead by before we do is the big question.
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Can someone explain this to me please? The fecking thing was hitting leg stump.Nicko58 wrote:Luck is certainly on the side of the Kiwis this morning - if that review had gone in our favour you could say it's been a decent session for England.
And now we're two wickets down.
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the reviews were set up to catch the glaring umpire mistake - that's their purpose... it's not how teams use them - but that's what they are for.Bruce Rioja wrote:Can someone explain this to me please? The fecking thing was hitting leg stump.Nicko58 wrote:Luck is certainly on the side of the Kiwis this morning - if that review had gone in our favour you could say it's been a decent session for England.
And now we're two wickets down.
so - if it's a glaring mistake - umpires decision can be overturned - but a half-ball on half the width of a stump? that's not a glaring umpire mistake - so it stays with the umpire's original call.. if he said not out - then it's still not out. Same thing happened to the NZers on the first day when they reviewed a Root appeal - again, hitting stump - but only glancing - so umpire's call.
within its own rules and purpose it is perfectly logical. problem is - showing it on the big screen! that's asking for trouble!
the logical conclusion of this is to be more persuasive in getting the umpire to give it out in the first place - which will lead to louder and more insistent and extavagent appealing...
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I'm almost afraid to speak in case...ah well, Come on you er.....England Whites....
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Bell gone already. I used to see him as a saviour type but he's not having the best of times.
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