Cricket: NZ vs England

[Bovidae]

@Bones Of course we know he likes the pies. It was more that we tend to hear Smith watching sport, rather than see him.

[Hooroo]

I'm really struggling to understand how they can overturn that decision. It helps us but that knick was after it had passed the bat

[Bones]

@Hooroo There was the tiniest of white spots on the bat that wasn't there before the ball passed. Weird how the snick was between frames though.

[Hooroo]

@Bones said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@Hooroo There was the tiniest of white spots on the bat that wasn't there before the ball passed. Weird how the snick was between frames though.

It looked as though that spot was there before the ball reached the bat. I may be wrong but

[booboo]

@Hooroo @Bones
Please explain for those of us not watching?

Lbw reversed?

[Hooroo]

@booboo said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@Hooroo @Bones
Please explain for those of us not watching?

Lbw reversed?

Yes and hot spot didn't show anything. There was a noise after the ball went past the bat but before it hit the pad.

[Bones]

@Hooroo I couldn't see it before the ball.

@booboo Taylor took a punt on a review for lbw thinking it may have gone down leg. Overturned due to seemingly the slightest of snicks. Doull now saying it was his spikes scraping the ground.

[Hooroo]

@booboo even the kiwi commentators are saying that it was out.

[Hooroo]

@Bones said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@Hooroo I couldn't see it before the ball.

@booboo Taylor took a punt on a review for lbw thinking it may have gone down leg. Overturned due to seemingly the slightest of snicks. Doull now saying it was his spikes scraping the ground.

I couldn't see any difference on the bat to before the ball went past it.

[booboo]

We'll take that for Nigel "Could Have Come From Anywhere" Llong.

[Bones]

@Hooroo said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@Bones said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@Hooroo I couldn't see it before the ball.

@booboo Taylor took a punt on a review for lbw thinking it may have gone down leg. Overturned due to seemingly the slightest of snicks. Doull now saying it was his spikes scraping the ground.

I couldn't see any difference on the bat to before the ball went past it.

I could.

[Bovidae]

The rain won't be too far away.

[Virgil]

100 #11 for Latham!

[Virgil]

173/3 at tea, happy with that given we were put in.
Shame Roscoe fell straight after reaching 50

[Crucial]

@Virgil said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

100 #11 for Latham!

5 tons in 10 successive innings as well.

First kiwi to achieve that.

[Bovidae]

Pissing down for the last 10 mins in the northern suburbs.

[Donsteppa]

Sunny and 25 degrees here, come back to Bay Oval for the final session of the day

[Cyclops]

At the risk of the jinx, Latham is a bloody special player. He's almost certain to be our best ever test opener by the end of his career (excluding Dempster) , and is possibly there already.

But what really stands out to me is that about two or three years ago when the South Africans were here, he was in a real deep trough form wise, and I can remember watching him gradually pulling back, filing off his edges and getting back into form, particularly around reducing the balls he was flashing at outside off stump.

It was a fantastic display of self awareness and discipline and convinced me that he had what it would take to excel as a test cricketer.

[Godder]

@Crucial awesome stuff. Apparently his lowest score once three figures are achieved is 154... England might be in for a long day tomorrow...

[Chris B.]

@Cyclops Yeah - the good thing is that he's putting to bed the idea that Rigor should be in an all time NZ XI.

And I've got nothing at all against Rigor who had a very good and consistent record - based around an excellent average - but 4 test hundreds and a highest score of 145 is a bit embarrassing for us as a country if it's the best we can muster.

So, Tommy with 11 hundreds and a top- score of 264* is a lot more credible - and his average has just scraped past MR's as well.