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

[Furball]

Right, GTFO now please Taylor

 

[Pothas]

Shame, was enjoying that.

 

[Furball]

Good timing.

 

[hendrix]

For ****'s sake Rossco why tempt fate a third time?

 

[Woodster]

Job done, well done Steven Finn on the boundary there. Looks as though he could have just made the catch himself, but took no chances.

 

[hendrix]

He'd sent the ****ing fielders out there, why didn't he just hit it somewhere else? so frustrating.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Cook gotten away with this somewhat - not sure why Tredwell was left with 3 overs in the final 8.

 

[Bahnz]

Good to have you back Ross. Not so good to have you back everyone else.

 

[hendrix]

Cook gotten away with this somewhat - not sure why Tredwell was left with 3 overs in the final 8.

he was really poor in the other game...letting Woakes bowl to the new batsmen, bowling Anderson out well before the finish (although I suppose Dernbach is meant to be the "specialist" death bowler hahaha)

 

[Furball]

Bowling out Anderson before the finish is actually a better use of him, he's rubbish at the death.

 

[BeeGee]

Congrats England.

 

[hendrix]

Taylor threw it away, really.

 

[grecian]

HMM, some promising moments this match, still not great though. Will hope that Broad and Finn were just rusty today.

Bres, Buttler and most importantly for me, Morgan coming into form is good.

Morgan's lack of form has really been worrying, he was our best one-day player for a while, and was the perfect foil for our more stolid players.

 

[Bahnz]

Taylor threw it away, really.

Not half as much as the rest of the side did.

 

[hendrix]

Not half as much as the rest of the side did.

True, but the rest of the side is not half as good as Taylor.

 

[Cabinet96]

HMM, some promising moments this match, still not great though. Will hope that Broad and Finn were just rusty today.

Bres, Buttler and most importantly for me, Morgan coming into form is good.

Morgan's lack of form has really been worrying, he was our best one-day player for a while, and was the perfect foil for our more stolid players.

Yeah Morgan has to fire if we are to win the CT IMO. The balance of our side and the top 3 make the role of finisher more important than ever, and while Root and Buttler have a lot of potential, neither have done it as much and as well as Morgan have in the past. Him failing today would have meant a score below 250 in all likelihood, whereas we nearly got 290 because he fired. Difference between winning and losing really.

 

[Bahnz]

True, but the rest of the side is not half as good as Taylor.

Taylor is an average death batsman. He's so one dimensional in his method of attack that it rarely takes long for him to hole out.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah Morgan has to fire if we are to win the CT IMO. The balance of our side and the top 3 make the role of finisher more important than ever, and while Root and Buttler have a lot of potential, neither have done it as much and as well as Morgan have in the past. Him failing today would have meant a score below 250 in all likelihood, whereas we nearly got 290 because he fired. Difference between winning and losing really.

This. Especially with Pietersen out of the side.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Taylor is an average death batsman. He's so one dimensional in his method of attack that it rarely takes long for him to hole out.

It's so stupid the way he does that when we know he has every other shot in the book.

 

[hendrix]

The addition of a reverse sweep would actually add a lot to Taylor's game in those death overs.