Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final

[sparky]

Looks like this might be over and dusted inside 3 days.

[Godder]

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

Looks like this might be over and dusted inside 3 days.

That would be nice...

[rotated]

If they don't bowl them out before close of play I can't see the extra half hour being useful. If the lead is 30+ hard to chase that down in 20 minutes.

[sparky]

England now ahead. Wood putting bat on ball.

[sparky]

Decent partnership from Stone and Wood.

[sparky]

England 30 ahead. This will go into Day 4.

[sparky]

Wood out. Hit one in the air. England 8 down.

[sparky]

Broad Bowled by Boult. 121 for 9. It smells like victory.

[rotated]

Broad wants this quicker than we do, good signs if he takes the new ball.

[MajorRage]

What did we do to Holding?

Think NZ have bowled Average, England just poor. Said it about 10 times. After going on and on yday about dropped catches, seems he cannot give us credit.

Why the fucks he commentating anyway?

[rotated]

Disappointing for Taylor there as he looked primed, but another good days test cricket from NZ. Good signs from Henry and Patel and a perfect workload for Boult to dust the cobwebs off.

[rotated]

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

What did we do to Holding?

Think NZ have bowled Average, England just poor. Said it about 10 times. After going on and on yday about dropped catches, seems he cannot give us credit.

Why the fucks he commentating anyway?

Yeah I don't understand why they canned Gower and Botham but kept Holding.

[sparky]

Close of play on Day 4. England 122 for 9. 37 ahead.

[shark]

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

This in part is why I didn't think they were up for chasing at Lords basically everyone in that top order is under serious pressure aside from Burns and Root (who has the weight of the side on him).

A couple of early wickets and they have just carved through them.

Zaltsman was saying on TMS that England already have the second most ducks in the Top 6 in a calendar year in history and it's not even June.

Its June 13

[nzzp]

just watching through the replay right now. That is a seriously good catch from Latham in the slips to open the wicket takinng. Maybe robbed Rosco, but damn good hands and reaction, diving forward and across.

[canefan]

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

Close of play on Day 4. England 122 for 9. 37 ahead.

Henry, Wags and Ajaz have been busy while we were sleeping. Wow

[mariner4life]

This is how conditioned I still am to Black Caps failure

I open cricinfo, see a team get absolutely rolled, and instantly think it's us.

[nzzp]

there is little I love more in sport than Wagner's eye bulging, vein popping wicket celebration.

we loves wags

[Bovidae]

Very surprised when I heard the scorecard on the radio this morning.

I was reading a scathing article on cricinfo, and this comment made me laugh.

To be fair to England's selection, you can understand why they felt they needed an extra batter. They probably needed a dozen extra batters. And you can see why they didn't feel they needed a spinner on the fourth or fifth day. There's hardly going to be any play.

[Donsteppa]

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

What did we do to Holding?

Think NZ have bowled Average, England just poor. Said it about 10 times. After going on and on yday about dropped catches, seems he cannot give us credit.

Why the fucks he commentating anyway?

They’re a curious commentary team. They figure out some very good insights… and then proceede to flog them to death for the next half day.

While Taylor does have a couple of issues, after a while I started to wonder if we’d picked Chris Martin to bat at four.