**Official** New Zealand in England

[Richard]

Awesome updating Dickinson.

I aim to please.

 

[Athlai]

I aim to please.

 

[Richard]

Aye.

Flynn gets 4 in 2 balls.

 

[Athlai]

Flynn has done a fantastic job of sticking around here, hope he doesn't get out, as it the low figures really don't reflect the quality of his innings.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Love the way the pitch supposedly wasn't turning earlier, and now you realise it is.

Love the way you can't read after 55,000+ posts.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Hence the "is actually" rather than "I just noticed..."

Made it sound like something you had come up with, rather than something you had heard.

 

[Richard]

Hope we might at least get NZ all out here, even though we've now got no chance of victory.

 

[Richard]

Love the way you can't read after 55,000+ posts.

I could read easily about 12 years before I made any posts.

 

[Richard]

Made it sound like something you had come up with, rather than something you had heard.

Hmm, well I aimed to make it sound like I was merely commenting on Atherton's observation.

 

[Athlai]

54"% sure your first words were written Rich. Probably being a "this post was in jest!" comment on some form of childrens forum.

 

[Richard]

Unfortunately, not only did internet forums not exist in 1991, but I didn't have internet access either.

I did write not very long after I spoke, however. Certainly a much smaller gap than most.

 

[Athlai]

Sent letters to a cricket letter writing community then.

 

[Richard]

Anyway, 'tis Tea, and the forecast that were they still batting at said interval they'd be safe has proven correct.

 

[Richard]

Sent letters to a cricket letter writing community then.

Hadn't even heard of international cricket that far back ITBT. My first taste was 1992.

 

[Scaly piscine]

I could read easily about 12 years before I made any posts.

As evidenced by your ability to conjure up things I haven't posted in the first place.

 

[sledger]

haah who let beevers back in?

 

[Prince EWS]

I could read easily about 12 years before I made any posts.

Oh really?!?!

Because SP, of course, wasn't trying to make a joke there, and was in fact actually suggesting you couldn't read. We were all eagerly awaiting your take on it.. I'd have surely taken his post as gospel if you hadn't contradicted it.

 

[Days of Grace]

Don't know what to make of young Flynn so far. Is he usually this slow in scoring? A quick look at his FC stats will show a S/R below 40.

If he is normally this slow, but has a good temperament, he could be just the thing for our middle order, batting around the likes of Oram and McCullum.

However, I always felt NZ were at their strongest with guys like McMillan at no.6, who attacked the bowling in all match situations and conditions. Let's face it, if Oram wasn't scoring at a good rate out there now, chances are England would still be in with a chance.

 

[Richard]

As evidenced by your ability to conjure up things I haven't posted in the first place.

I didn't need to conjure-up stuff you hadn't posted. You first tried to suggest the pitch wasn't allowing MSP to turn the ball as that was the best way to make him look bad, then changed your mind and decided the best way to make him look bad was to admit that actually it was.

 

[GGG]

Shame there wasn't a day left, a NZ victory on the cards IMO.