Black Caps vs England Series

[MN5]

Wow, fucken awesome catch from Blundell, as good as you’ll see.

England declare. We’re chasing 582 for victory.

[Bones]

@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:

Wow, fucken awesome catch from Blundell, as good as you’ll see.

England declare. We’re chasing 582 for victory.

The comeback is on.

[MN5]

@Bones said in Black Caps vs England Series:

@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:

Wow, fucken awesome catch from Blundell, as good as you’ll see.

England declare. We’re chasing 582 for victory.

The comeback is on.

[Damo]

@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:

Wow, fucken awesome catch from Blundell, as good as you’ll see.

England declare. We’re chasing 582 for victory.

That's a weird decision. Is weather thought to be a factor?

Surely the better play would have been to make us toil in the field for another couple of hours.

[MN5]

@Damo said in Black Caps vs England Series:

@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:

Wow, fucken awesome catch from Blundell, as good as you’ll see.

England declare. We’re chasing 582 for victory.

That's a weird decision. Is weather thought to be a factor?

Surely the better play would have been to make us toil in the field for another couple of hours.

She’s grey and windy out my way. Rain is on the radar this evening

[MN5]

Stokes declares one run short of a half century.

Definitely a team man who doesn’t seem to care much for individual performances.

Gotta feel for our openers, both in questionable form and England will be absolutely fired up.

[MN5]

No double hat trick for Atkinson.

We’ll take that win.

[MN5]

Conway clean bowled by Woakes for a duck.

The woes just continue for the poor guy, really sad to see.

KW in.

[Chris B.]

@MN5 Definitely time for a rest for Devon!

[KiwiMurph]

Great decision to have an unchanged team....

[nzzp]

All we need to be is 2-3 down at 80 overs. Their bowlers will start to cook, and the next 80 will be easy batting amiright?

[MN5]

KW gone for 4.

Someone forgot to remind Woakes he’s playing overseas and supposed to be shit.

No pressure on the rest of the team

[Bovidae]

@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps vs England Series:

Great decision to have an unchanged team....

Stead isn't known for making big decisions. He and Latham can't justify selecting the same team - again.

[MN5]

Carse comes on and takes a terrific caught and bowled.

Latham gone, 33/3.

Provided Ravindra and Mitchell each get a double ton we should do this pretty comfortably

[nzzp]

@MN5 said in Black Caps vs England Series:

Carse comes on and takes a terrific caught and bowled.

Latham gone, 33/3.

Provided Ravindra and Mitchell each get a double ton we should do this pretty comfortably

Agreed.

only 550 to go.

[canefan]

Where do we send the bill for playing the entire England team into form?

[Chris B.]

Rachin goes - and out strides Blundell batting at 6 - again!

[Chris B.]

Stead to ChatGPT - "Who should bat at 6 for NZ in this test"?

"Tom Blundell has batted at 6 for New Zealand for the past three years...."

"Aha - you bewdy, I thought it might be Tom"!

[Cyclops]

Oh perfect, Southee can come out and smoke 77 in a hopeless defeat, thus completing the circle of his career. Just a shame he didn't manage a 5fer as well. No need to select him in Hamilton.

[Chris B.]

@Cyclops said in Black Caps vs England Series:

Oh perfect, Southee can come out and smoke 77 in a hopeless defeat, thus completing the circle of his career. Just a shame he didn't manage a 5fer as well. No need to select him in Hamilton.

I'll be amazed if they don't pick him for Hamilton in his final test.

TBH - I'm quite supportive of it. The series will be gone - may as well give him a respectful farewell.

If they were going to leave him out - this was the test to do it.

It would be madness not to bring Will Young in for Conway. Blundell should need a hundred here to save himself - but, we don't have a back-up keeper in the squad (it's presumably Conway) so I'll be pretty surprised if they bring someone else in.