**Official** New Zealand in England

[_Ed_]

Richard Edmunds - he likes to stay up late (must be 1:08 or so in Auck) to watch the cricket and post on CW.n... so he can turn off and watch sitcoms.

It's a win-win situation really - either I miss a few wickets, the disappointment of which would be outweighed by the fact that the wickets have fallen, or I just miss a frustrating fightback from England.

 

[steds]

It can only get better.

















... can't it?

Broad and Anderson are yet to bowl.

 

[Richard]

Yeah but it'll be at least a little while before they bowl.

 

[Leslie1]

You just get this feeling that whatever total England gets, NZ will do worse in a mirror effect. Plus we don't have Fulton batting, we have a crippled McCullum and a wicket keeper.

 

[Richard]

Never know - pitch might flatten-out.

 

[Natman20]

About time for a bowling change

 

[Natman20]

... finally

 

[silentstriker]

Hoping KP makes a century here.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Amazing how England can always make batting look difficult. They do all those hours in the nets honing their shots then when it comes to bat they decide to adopt the mindset of a baseball player who uses a bat to passing flies when they land on their head. It's absolutely moronic beyond belief against a team of such enormous mediocrity.

 

[Blakey]

Can see these two putting on a crap load of runs.

 

[Richard]

Amazing how England can always make batting look difficult. They do all those hours in the nets honing their shots then when it comes to bat they decide to adopt the mindset of a baseball player who uses a bat to passing flies when they land on their head. It's absolutely moronic beyond belief against a team of such enormous mediocrity.

Maybe you'll enjoy it more if it continues against a much-superior South African side and they punish England for it?

 

[Jono]

Haha I left just after Vaughan's wicket, and the commentators were debating whether Collingwood and Bell should have played their county games to get back into form. All the commentators agreed that they should have tried to get time in the middle, instead of just relying on the nets as they chose.

Come back just after lunch and they've both got ducks. Amazing.

 

[Richard]

Collingwood currently averages 31.90 from his last 22 Test innings, and it obviously would be lower still but for let-offs. One more failure and he's gone - possibly for good.

 

[pasag]

Collingwood currently averages 31.90 from his last 22 Test innings, and it obviously would be lower still but for let-offs. One more failure and he's gone - possibly for good.

According to who? You or the England selectors? For all we know he could be kept in the team indefinitely for goodness knows why.

 

[Goughy]

Collingwood currently averages 31.90 from his last 22 Test innings, and it obviously would be lower still but for let-offs. One more failure and he's gone - possibly for good.

haha, how ridiculous would that be

 

[Steulen]

Collingwood currently averages 31.90 from his last 22 Test innings, and it obviously would be lower still but for let-offs. One more failure and he's gone - possibly for good.

DWTA. I think it would be very uncomfortable for the selectors to have to dump the ODI captain. So he's safe for a while, I'd say.

 

[GIMH]

DWTA. I think it would be very uncomfortable for the selectors to have to dump the ODI captain. So he's safe for a while, I'd say.

I was thinking for this but, politically, it's probably good to have the two captains not playing in each other's team

 

[GIMH]

I was thinking for this but, politically, it's probably good to have the two captains not playing in each other's team

Having said that, never feel comfortable dropping a player after a duck, more concerned about them scracthing round for a few then getting out, generally when they are only there for a couple of balls you can't gauge the form they are in

I'm in work at the minute though, so for all I know Colly could have been all at sea before he got his third ball or whatever it was

 

[alternative]

Hoping KP can score a big one here.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Bar KP the top 6 are all much of a muchness. Collingwood bowls a bit and fields very well so that for me elevates him above the other 4 particularly as England are short on bowling. Vaughan and Colly are also both captains so that basically leaves you with Strauss, Cook and Bell as viable candidates to be dropped as far as I'm concerned.

I don't rate Shah however, just don't see him being anything above those he'll be replacing plus he's rubbish in the field.