JBH001
International Regular
It was a great day at the cricket, best fun I have had at a game in a while; it would have been an epic day if we had won though. I could hardly bear to watch the last couple of overs, almost averting my eyes for every ball - although I did see the last one 
. Remember thinking as Harris ran in that they had set the field for Vettori to play that step outside off and hit square or behind square as there was a nice vacant area there for him to score runs in. It worked, he went for it, again, and got bowled.
Sat in the West stand, pretty close to behind the bowlers arm, and high up. They were sweet seats. The West stand became the de facto terraces, and there was a good crowd there with some decent action keeping everyone entertained. Mitch came back well, and quietened the crowd down in the end with his wickets; kudos to him, although he got **** pretty much all day along. Although it was a shame Eden park was at half capacity, a chant of "Johnson's a wanker" from a packed Eden park would have been pretty sweet to behold. It was a good and passionate crowd too, behind the boys all the way.
At 5 down I, in fact most of us, didnt expect us to get as close as we did, but thats no real solace. We should have won that game, and would have but for the fact that we missed Taylor and lost too many at the top of the order. McCullum let me down, again, with a silly hoick from outside off, and I still dont know what Broom and Franklin were doing at 4 and 5. Those wickets really cost us, especially when D/L came into effect. Guptill played another strange knock, soaking up too many balls apart from the occassional lovely straight hit down the ground; he needs to learn to rotate it a bit more against quality bowling sides.
Well played Australia though, and I thought Ponting's captaincy was excellent.
Still a bit down we lost though, as I said, an awesome game, but it would have epic if we had won.
. Remember thinking as Harris ran in that they had set the field for Vettori to play that step outside off and hit square or behind square as there was a nice vacant area there for him to score runs in. It worked, he went for it, again, and got bowled.Sat in the West stand, pretty close to behind the bowlers arm, and high up. They were sweet seats. The West stand became the de facto terraces, and there was a good crowd there with some decent action keeping everyone entertained. Mitch came back well, and quietened the crowd down in the end with his wickets; kudos to him, although he got **** pretty much all day along. Although it was a shame Eden park was at half capacity, a chant of "Johnson's a wanker" from a packed Eden park would have been pretty sweet to behold. It was a good and passionate crowd too, behind the boys all the way.
At 5 down I, in fact most of us, didnt expect us to get as close as we did, but thats no real solace. We should have won that game, and would have but for the fact that we missed Taylor and lost too many at the top of the order. McCullum let me down, again, with a silly hoick from outside off, and I still dont know what Broom and Franklin were doing at 4 and 5. Those wickets really cost us, especially when D/L came into effect. Guptill played another strange knock, soaking up too many balls apart from the occassional lovely straight hit down the ground; he needs to learn to rotate it a bit more against quality bowling sides.
Well played Australia though, and I thought Ponting's captaincy was excellent.
Still a bit down we lost though, as I said, an awesome game, but it would have epic if we had won.
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