**Official** England in New Zealand

[dontcloseyoureyes]

He got enough glove on it for mine, and he moved pretty late.

 

[Somerset]

MASSIVE hit from Ryder, biggest six in the match so far.

 

[Richard]

Thaaat's pretty sizeable.

 

[Somerset]

Y'know, Soms, have just noted - Ryder and Fleming's drive is pretty similar.

Wow, the last over contained a 0, a 1, a 2, a 3, a 4 and a 6. Apparently Sky Sports' statistician has never knowingly seen such an over before. I certainly haven't.

Haven't noticed it myself....in terms of class they're pretty alike mind!

 

[Richard]

Another flat six.

New Zealand's middle-order will never have a better chance to get back into nick.

Anderson 4 overs for 44. Broad surely to come on next over you'd imagine.

 

[Somerset]

Hopkins to debut in the Test series?

Knowing McCullum he'll fight through it...hard to know the extent of the problem at the moment...I can't see anyone jumping ahead of Hopkins in the queue if McCullum was ruled out though.


And another 17 off Anderson...Ryder on fire!

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Not even I can defend Jimmy here. Get him off.

 

[Richard]

McCullum's still looking very far from comfortable here. Sidebottom's good bowling obviously playing a part tho.

Martin Crowe now on commentary. Well, he's better than Doull or Richardson I suppose.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Good to see Ryder take some iniative after McCullum has been a bit out of sorts with the sore hand.

 

[alternative]

Haha just watching the cameo being played from Ryder here, gunning it this new bloke.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

McCullum looks like one of those blokes that carries a knife in his sock at all times.

 

[Richard]

Anderson so far in 2007\08: 9 games, 5.47-an-over, average 59.33
Broad so far in 2007\08: 9 games, 4.45-an-over, average 17.80

 

[MoxPearl]

McCullum looks like one of those blokes that carries a knife in his sock at all times.

And a fork ?

Edit : Didnt see u put Mccullum

*mox goes and stands in the corner and thinks bout what he did*

 

[Dick Rockett]

Anderson so far in 2007\08: 9 games, 5.47-an-over, average 59.33
Broad so far in 2007\08: 9 games, 4.45-an-over, average 17.80

Just wondering why you tend to use backslashes rather than forwardslashes Rich?

 

[Richard]

Hahaha, Neil picked me up on that a while ago. Dunno, TBH, I'm well aware that the foreslash is the correct way of doing it, but I habitually use the backslash and can't seem to get out of the habit. It's almost an instinctive movement on the keyboard now.

 

[Richard]

And finally, Sidebottom gets punished a little. Consecutive boundaries.

 

[Richard]

So, with 40 overs left, New Zealand need 270 for the tie. Ryder goes to the 1st ball of the 11th. How, one feels, not the man you want coming in at this point.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Been bowling puss, but can certainly field. He took a great outfield catch like that a few years ago in the 20/20 vs. Aus after getting hammered too.

 

[Somerset]

Ross Taylor would be a better player to have coming in now. Especially with McCullum still struggling to find too much power in his shots.

Disappointing shot from Ryder, big heave across the line although it took a great catch from Anderson to see him dismissed.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Jesse Ryder throws away a good start. Would be interesting to see if How comes in now.