**Official** New Zealand in England

[Richard]

OK, O'Dir(Bri)en on. And looks like Cook just pulled a crap ball straight to square-leg and at first I thought it was a missed catch.

 

[Richard]

IIRC Rick McCosker came back with a broken jaw in the 1977 centenary test and played a pretty crucial innings given the eventual margin of victory. Regarding Cowdrey's broken arm, am I right in thinking he didn't actually have to face a ball though?

EDIT
And didn't Malcolm Marshall bat one-handed with a broken arm against England in 1984 or 1988?

'84 it must've been, as Larry Gomes was involved, and he was gone by '88.

 

[Halfpast_Yellow]

O'Brien on (lol, beaten). Should be interesting, see if he has improved.

 

[jammay123]

what is the world coming too when o'brien gets out cook

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

O'Brien gets Cook, sounds a bit dodgy though.

 

[steds]

Shocking decision to give Cook out. If it was half an inch higher he'd have been hit on the thigh pad.

 

[Halfpast_Yellow]

Yeah shocking on the slow mo replay maybe, but that was a pretty amazingly weird ball and looked good at full speed...

 

[chalky]

A Michael Vaughan cover drive is there a better shot in test cricket?

 

[wpdavid]

'84 it must've been, as Larry Gomes was involved, and he was gone by '88.

Yeah, it was the 4th test in 1984. Turns out Marshall only had a double fracture of the left thumb, not his arm.

McCosker did come back with a broken jaw though in 1977.
And I gather Kirsten came back with a broken eye socket inflicted by a Shoaib bouncer in 2002 or 2003, which sounds absolute madness to me.

 

[jammay123]

cricinfo just said something i never though i would read ' jaffa from O'Brien '

 

[SpaceMonkey]

New Zealand batsman Daniel Flynn will see a neurosurgeon as a precaution after feeling dizzy during the second day of the second Test against England.

Obvious now why he didnt come out to bat. Losing 3 Teeth on top of that, ouch!

 

[Perm]

For example when he bowled Martin, do that to eg:Oram, and he will smash it. But it is only Martin so it is acceptable.

It wouldn't be any more acceptable, it'd still be poor bowling. It just wouldn't be punished as it deserves to.

 

[Perm]

Just a standard concussion by the sounds of it. Not overly surprised.

 

[jammay123]

england are so dire.

 

[GIMH]

A Michael Vaughan cover drive is there a better shot in test cricket?

No IMO

So, been out again, another CWer to get a haircut today, what was Cook's dismissal like? From above it seems he got a shocker? I guess that makes up for the fact we only had to take 9!

 

[pasag]

No IMO

So, been out again, another CWer to get a haircut today, what was Cook's dismissal like? From above it seems he got a shocker? I guess that makes up for the fact we only had to take 9!

Wouldn't really call it a shocker, though it was probably a bit too high and going down leg and not out.

 

[steds]

Was miles too high. Didn't even look close imo.

 

[GIMH]

Is it un-purist of me to be a little frustrated by our slow-scoring of late?

I dunno, our success in Tests in 04/05 was at times built on some brisk scoring, in recent times 3 an over seems to be above average. When you've got the competition hitting at over 4 an over then you need to try and pull yourselves back in the game IMO.

Mind you, having said that the last thing we want is to find ourselves 4 down and having to rebuild. Alas, at the current rate it will take us to about day 4 to equal NZ's score

 

[GIMH]

Interesting, Athers mentions people being critical of our slow-scoring just I hit Alt+ S

 

[wpdavid]

Is it un-purist of me to be a little frustrated by our slow-scoring of late?

I dunno, our success in Tests in 04/05 was at times built on some brisk scoring, in recent times 3 an over seems to be above average. When you've got the competition hitting at over 4 an over then you need to try and pull yourselves back in the game IMO.

Mind you, having said that the last thing we want is to find ourselves 4 down and having to rebuild. Alas, at the current rate it will take us to about day 4 to equal NZ's score

It may have something to do with the guys at the crease today. Strauss is trying to rebuild his test career, and Vaughan's not exactly been a run machine.

As I type, Strauss dropped by Taylor