Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final

[Donsteppa]

Bugger, I was hoping he’d carry his bat, but that run never looked good.

Definitely the Legendary Conway and The Muppets show with the bat so far. Honourary mentions to Nicholls and Wags for taking the pressure off Conway at the right times.

Sir Devon Conway.

[sparky]

132 for 7 wickets for England today. Great effort. Bit more pace in the pitch today and they used it effectively.

[Donsteppa]

Right, sleep time. Hopefully to wake up to find the bloke with the ridiculous mullet and the spinner who doesn’t turn it have scythed through the English batting lineup.

[sparky]

[sparky]

🦆 Sibley out for a big fat 0. LBW to Jamieson.

4-1.

[sparky]

Wicket. Soft wicket. Crawley wafts at a wide one off Southee. Routine catch for Watling. 18-2.

[sparky]

Big pressure on Captain Root now.

[sparky]

Tea 25-2.

[sparky]

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[sparky]

England 50-2. Steady as she goes since tea.

[sparky]

79-2. Burns approaching his 50.

[sparky]

England 111-2 at the close. They had the better of the day.

[shark]

Well, appropriately with Queen's Birthday weekend coming up, we royally fucked that up. The foundation was there for the middle order to bury England but that was shit.

[Crucial]

Now, who was busy telling us yesterday that the days of the craps were long gone?

[booboo]

@canefan said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

@donsteppa said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

Wags the third highest scorer.

Love wags 🥰

Loves

[MN5]

Well that’s a slightly disappointing score to wake up to

[Donsteppa]

@crucial said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

Now, who was busy telling us yesterday that the days of the craps were long gone?

I think we might have to ban him from posting jinxes for the day before each Black Caps match.

So waking up to CricInfo, I see the pointless in Tests uneconomical Santner even managed to bowl a no ball.

[Donsteppa]

So…

Conway: 200
The number 11 batsman: 25
Extras: 24
Nine other players in a supposedly deep batting lineup: 129

[Cyclops]

Disappointing from almost everyone but Conway. We've had two opportunities to really take control of this match and missed both.

On the other hand, our four best batsmen failed, but we still got to 378 so at least it's realistic to hope for improvement from others. Plus the lack of warmup time etc and we have no shortage of our favourite excuses for why the black caps will be better next time.

Neither side has a decisive advantage at the moment, but overall our position is better so hopefully we can pick up a couple of early wickets tonight.