**Official** England in New Zealand

[HeathDavisSpeed]

That's not the score now. 140 ish for 4. How, Bell, Fulton and Taylor all gone. One wicket a piece for Tremlett, Hoggard, Harmison and Collingwood.

Elliott and Sinclair are in; not out on about 15 a piece I believe.

Wellington dominating this game though... 9 wickets taken by Wellington players and 40 runs (from Bell) plus Elliott's contribution with the bat.

Wellington IS New Zealand Cricket!! (to paraphrase Jesse Ryder)

 

[NZTailender]

Cumming is mediocre. We don't need a guy batting who says that a grinding 30 is enough.

Meh. I still love Cumming, regardless.

 

[Flem274*]

All this O'Brien bashing is getting tiresome tbh. He's got a pretty flash FC bowling record and AFAIC the sorts of abject comments I'm reading in here about his talents are hardly fair after a career spanning a whole six tests.

Keep him out of the ODI team though. He's clearly lacking in that form of the game.

EDIT: good start by our likely test opening combo here. How and Bell have put on 67 so far.

AWTA. I definitely think we have better but he's been OK since his recall. Got the job done.

But no more ODIs please...

 

[Days of Grace]

So, here we are:

NZC has a choice. Select Sinclair for the tests, or Sinclair goes to the ICL. The minute Sinclair is dropped then he will go to the ICL, I feel sure about it.

That is all.

 

[Richard]

I presume this game is a meaningless one?

If so - what a good job. This'd have been embarrassing if it'd been a proper game.

EDIT: this game IS a proper one. OK, this IS pretty embarrassing.

If Tremlett plays in the First Test I'd be prepared to bet a decent bit on him being totally undercooked and bowling a heap of crap and putting himself out of the reckoning FTTB. Let's hope he can bowl himself into some better touch for the remainder of this innings and hopefully have a second-innings too.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

FTTB acronyms.

****ing terribly tedious bloody acronyms?

 

[Richard]

FTTB = for the time being.

Fairly obviously.

 

[slugger]

So, here we are:

NZC has a choice. Select Sinclair for the tests, or Sinclair goes to the ICL. The minute Sinclair is dropped then he will go to the ICL, I feel sure about it.

That is all.

he probably hasnt even been approuched.. I believe he even said that in an interview only a week or two back..

 

[Goughy]

Its interesting that people put weight on these warm up games with regard to selection and quality.

These games are tune-ups for the Tests, nothing more or less.

Ive lost count, over the years, of people reading too much into warm-ups, the results and the performances in them. They have little-no consequence on the series that will follow.

 

[Woodster]

Its interesting that people put weight on these warm up games with regard to selection and quality.

These games are tune-ups for the Tests, nothing more or less.

Ive lost count, over the years, of people reading too much into warm-ups, the results and the performances in them. They have little-no consequence on the series that will follow.

True, that is what they are - tune ups.

However, it is important that players that have not featured in competitive cricket for some time gain some vital practice in the middle. For example, Harmison needs to get plenty of overs in him in this game, Strauss, ideally, would have spent much longer in the middle, Ambrose the same.

Players need to hit the ground running and it would be a boost for such players to have a decent level of confidence going into the first Test, rather than feeling totally out of sorts.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

A joke from my other half yesterday:

England should call up James Kirtley, and combined with Tim Ambrose in the team, England would then have one good player

 

[PhoenixFire]

Good one, but Kirtley ≠ Curtley unfortunatley.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I realise that. Obviously, the joke is better when 'said' rather than written down.

 

[Richard]

≠

First the to-the-power-2 now does-not-equal. Where do you get these things from?

And I've been using |= for years and years.

 

[Richard]

A joke from my other half yesterday:

England should call up James Kirtley, and combined with Tim Ambrose in the team, England would then have one good player

And what's more, they're both Sussex boys.

 

[Mixmasterreece]

he probably hasnt even been approuched.. I believe he even said that in an interview only a week or two back..

I would doubt the ICL would want Skippy.

 

[PhoenixFire]

I realise that. Obviously, the joke is better when 'said' rather than written down.

Indeed, fair point.

 

[PhoenixFire]

First the to-the-power-2 now does-not-equal. Where do you get these things from?

I do not understand what you just said

 

[Magrat Garlick]

I do not understand what you just said

He's jealous of your ability to use Unicode symbols.

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[Dick Rockett]

It's raining in Dunners, so no play in the warmup match at this stage.