Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final

[MN5]

Half ton up for Nichols. obviously reads the fern and took my advice about upping the scoring rate.

[canefan]

Important innings in support of Conway after Kane and Ross went cheaply

[canefan]

Conway seeing it like a grapefruit right now.

[Siam]

Tell you what, if you're a keeper in England, you better make sure you can score runs. This lad has only kept in 16 first class matches so still a novice. He's making a decent fist of it but I guess he can bat. No problem that they didn’t select outside their large squad, and Foakes has already been touted as the best gloves and in test cricket - dunno about that but he does look good and promising.

Commentators are right about how difficult lords is to keep and in all honesty this lad is doing as well or better than BJ at lords. Watling was pretty terrible in 2015, 16 byes and many fumbles.

My point? It's hard to keep tidy at lords, this kid doesn't yet have the chops but all eyes on BJ later - he'll definitely want to make an improvement on last time there.

[Siam]

@canefan that was a white ball shot that he played so well in our summer wasn't it. Good signs

[TeWaio]

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

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

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

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

@majorrage tomorrow! In the media center box as well woo

Is that the UFO thing? I notice they have built a couple of stands either side now so it doesn't look quite as prominent

Yeah the alien pod thing, although now I have the tickets I see there's been a reshuffle to the Tavern Stand boxes instead. The new stands either side of the media center look great on TV, well see how they look live.

I need to get back on the buy side ....

Or move to JPM!

[canefan]

150 to Devon. Looks chilled

[Siam]

Fun fact: we made 523 in the first dig last time we played at lords. Good eh?

We lost by 124 runs...

[Siam]

Poms have got the best coverage and commentary in the game. End of.🙂

[MN5]

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

Fun fact: we made 523 in the first dig last time we played at lords. Good eh?

We lost by 124 runs...

I’m struggling to see the “fun” part of this fact.

[Siam]

@mn5 that's why you don't talk up like a shackle dragger 😉

[Godder]

Apparently this is now the highest test debut score against England in England - the old record dated back to 1898 (if I heard the commentary right).

[canefan]

Wow, effortless checked drive by Conway down the ground

[Godder]

For anyone looking for live commentary without resorting to VPNs etc, guerillacricket on YouTube.

[canefan]

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

For anyone looking for live commentary without resorting to VPNs etc, guerillacricket on YouTube.

You could try vipboxtv as well. If you are willing to work through all the pop ups

[Paekakboyz]

Boo. Nicholls gone.

[canefan]

England essentially have a 4 prong attack, with Root filling in as a 5th. They will have a tough time over the 5 days

[sparky]

Wicket. Nicholls out for 61. 286/4 Caught by Robinson at fine leg off Wood. More bounce than he was expecting.

[No Quarter]

@mn5 can wear that wicket.

[Siam]

@canefan much prefer playing them sans stokes and archer