Haha, anyone being listening to the radio? There's some real gems on there. Some bloke has decided Vettori is rubbish and gets it easy and should be dropped.
Also, the third umpire Evan Watkins rang in-yes rang in himself, wasn't rung- and admitted he made a mistake with the Vettori run out. Good to see he has some integrity, not all umpires would do that I feel.
WoW, can't imagine anyone doing that over here. Good on Evan, though.
Either way, a little annoyed I chose to take myself to bed, but I literally fell asleep seconds after the end of the game. I forget how tiring staying-up most of the night when you're not out\in drinking is.
Luke Wright bowling the last over and not losing the game is little short of hilarious, really, though
worthy at the same time. It does worry me that he'll now get another 17 games to be useless because he'll probably have "something about him" for the next year.
New Zealand should be disappointed they didn't win this after getting it down to barely a-run-a-ball with, what, 7 overs left. But let's not forget what happened last time a ODI tie felt like a victory to England. Lost 4 of the next 5, and it would've been 5 out of 5 but for rain.
BTW, who still thinks Vettori made a mistake in inserting England? I never did, and still don't. Chasing was always the thing to do on this ground, even if NZ only ended-up doing it semi-successfully. Even though they botched the last bit - and not, I don't think, through bad strategy, Fulton never had a better chance than today, simply through inept batting at the end - it was still a brilliant effort from the halfway point to get even the tie.
Oh yeah - I presume it was an issue at my end BTW boss, CricInfo was behaving the same way.