**Official** New Zealand in England

[Neil Pickup]

Shot, Ian. I'll give you that one.

 

[Richard]

I can see Bell, Collingwood and Ambrose all fall for single digit scores, but Broad and Sidebottom saving the match. This is one hell of a match! And when it's over, we have Aus-WI as desert!

Presuming we do win this game, hopefully WI can take inspiration from us.

And as Bell smacks a Long-Hop and clips a leg-stump ball from O'Brien, the target is down below 40 and suddenly we're feeling OK again.

 

[_Ed_]

Oh dear Iain. Bowled well enough to change my opinion of him in the first innings, now 2 shockers to an out-of-sorts batsman.

 

[Richard]

Shot, Ian. I'll give you that one.

Beevers and Panesar = Pickup and Bell.

WTF has the guy actually done to you, again?

 

[four_or_six]

Presuming we do win this game, hopefully WI can take inspiration from us.

And as Bell smacks a Long-Hop and clips a leg-stump ball from O'Brien, the target is down below 40 and suddenly we're feeling OK again.

It's all fine now... no panic

 

[Stapel]

Presuming we do win this game, hopefully WI can take inspiration from us.

A WI win would really really be super. I guess I have to tell mrs. Stapel I will be in a pub tonight......., again.......

And as Bell smacks a Long-Hop and clips a leg-stump ball from O'Brien, the target is down below 40 and suddenly we're feeling OK again.

Two in a row, actually. Yeah that really changes the feeling of the occasion a bit!

 

[BoyBrumby]

This is painful to watch. Colly looks in such bad nick just now. He's nothing if not a fighter tho.

 

[andruid]

Given the relative differences of the top orders this series perhaps one could argue that New Zealand could have used a Shane Bond to give their attack that extra bit of bight. If say England had been 76/3 this morning, with Bond getting those two then I doubt this run chase would have been this...uneventful.

 

[Richard]

This is painful to watch. Colly looks in such bad nick just now. He's nothing if not a fighter tho.

Nothing if not lucky either - one of his customary let-offs this innings.

At least this time it can only gift him 20-odd not out.

 

[Richard]

Given the relative differences of the top orders this series perhaps one could argue that New Zealand could have used a Shane Bond to give their attack that extra bit of bight. If say England had been 76/3 this morning, with Bond getting those two then I doubt this run chase would have been this...uneventful.

If we'd been 76 for 3, we'd have lost, I'm pretty much certain.

 

[_Ed_]

No.

Please no.

 

[pasag]

Dropped! A real sitter, ball wasn't even going fast.

 

[Richard]

Would you believe it?

At least he knows it won't cost the game.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Beevers and Panesar = Pickup and Bell.

WTF has the guy actually done to you, again?

Get out and make me throw stuff. Repeatedly.

In other news, that dropped catch was hilarious. Now that was Bell's fault.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Jesus, Colly: edge, leading edge, spoons up a slower ball he didn't pick, then pops one onto the leg side to bring Bell onto strike who gives O'Brien the simplest of chances that he declines.

Could be the game there.

 

[Richard]

Get out and make me throw stuff. Repeatedly.

And no-one else has ever done that?(!)

 

[99*]

I feel ill atm.

 

[Days of Grace]

O-****ing Diren. **** u!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Perm]

*sigh*

 

[_Ed_]

I feel ill atm.

Yeah.

I briefly allowed myself to believe that we had a glimmer of hope, but it slipped away when the ball hit the ground.