***Official*** England in New Zealand series 2013

[Tricia McMillan]

Herp.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

"Guptill can ill-afford to get out now"

wut. I don't think we'll have too much trouble scoring at less than a run a ball from one end if he gets out.

 

[straw man]

Well I am slightly more confident in our T20 batting with Munro and Elliott rounding out the top-6 as opposed to the T20 World Cup where it felt like our batting was McCullum, Taylor, Guptill and not much else.

Mmmm famous last words those

 

[Tricia McMillan]

Ouch. Can we even make 130 at this point?

 

[Howsie]

lol, Munro waaaaaaay out of his depth. He was about 10 seconds late on that.

 

[Prensel]

Has Guptil tried to hit a boundary in the last 8 overs?

 

[wellAlbidarned]

lol, Munro waaaaaaay out of his depth. He was about 10 seconds late on that.

Not really the first NZ batsman in history to make a mess of a pull tbf.

 

[Zinzan]

I love how the commentators are now complimenting Guptill for being the only batsmen to prosper whilst failing to realise it was his sluggish start that put pressure on everyone else.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

What is with this "Guptill needs to bat out the innings", "Guptill can't afford to get out now" line? Guptill is the only guy with his ****ing eye in, he needs to go for it.

 

[BeeGee]

50 with only 2 boundaries. Interesting.

 

[Zinzan]

50 off 50 balls. I wonder if there's ever been a slower T20 50?

 

[Prensel]

50 Balls to get his eye in I see.

 

[BeeGee]

123 for 5

Uncanny

 

[Zinzan]

123 for 5

Uncanny

Yup, NZ have a mortgage on that particular score.

 

[straw man]

So is this pitch as difficult to score on as we're making out here? Only listening on the radio but it seems only McCullum found it possible to accelerate and score quickly.

Is this going to help our bowlers or are England just going to blitz this?

 

[Howe_zat]

Good stuff from Broad after getting smashed in the last game.

Should think we'll chase this, even with another Dernbach over to go

 

[Zinzan]

Lol the Umpire has to be blind, that went over his head by 6 inches.

 

[BeeGee]

So is this pitch as difficult to score on as we're making out here? Only listening on the radio but it seems only McCullum found it possible to accelerate and saw quickly.

Is this going to help our bowlers or are England just going to blitz this?

It's a typical cake tin pitch. Not the easiest to bat on, but NZ are 20 short, imo.

 

[Zinzan]

^ I feel we're 40 short tbh.

 

[BeeGee]

Top bowling from Broad.