*Official* New Zealand in England 2015

[Zinzan]

Well every part of that is wrong.

No it's not. Missing a straight delivery when trying to play it across the line is as much about poor shot selection as it is technical.

 

[Spark]

What is he meant to? Leave it? It's physically impossible for him to play straight when he is falling across like that. Get the head position right and everything else will follow.

 

[Jarquis]

No it's not. Missing a straight delivery when trying to play it across the line is as much about poor shot selection as it is technical.

No it's not. Because of a huge technical issue, there's only one shot he can play in that situation. It's literally impossible to play a forward D to that ball once you're in the position Taylor got himself into and ergo he had no shots to choose from besides just trying to get bat on it by playing across his pad.

 

[Goughy]

No it's not. Missing a straight delivery when trying to play it across the line is as much about poor shot selection as it is technical.

It is tough to play straight, even if you want to, when your head and weight is the wrong side of the ball.

 

[Jarquis]

Buttler just got mugged off

 

[Cabinet96]

Jaffa.

 

[Zinzan]

Wood is promising.

 

[Moss]

Feel for Kane here. Batted long and hard for that 1st innings century which was quite an effort if you consider his lack of build-up, and now has the responsibility once again.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Yeah, my first look at Wood and like him.

Not sure what guys are going on about with his run-up being so short, no different to Damien Fleming late in his career; hardly that short that it's a concern injury-wise.

 

[Zinzan]

Feel for Kane here. Batted long and hard for that 1st innings century which was quite an effort if you consider his lack of build-up, and now has the responsibility once again.

Don't... Kane lives to bat & bats to live!

 

[Jarquis]

Love it when Wood jumps wide

 

[Swingpanzee]

Digging Wood.

 

[social]

Yeah, my first look at Wood and like him.

Not sure what guys are going on about with his run-up being so short, no different to Damien Fleming late in his career; hardly that short that it's a concern injury-wise.

Fleming still had quite a smooth, rhythmic action whereas Wood seems to place enormous pressure on his body

 

[Cabinet96]

Second time Watling has unnecessarily played at a short ball with a bit of width from Wood. No way of keeping it down.

 

[Swingpanzee]

This is compelling cricket

 

[Meridio]

Re. Taylor - I can't watch at the moment, but it sounds like he got out due to closing himself off with his head way outside the line of off stump. This has been a real problem for him recently - I noticed in the first innings as well he was often casting himself with his front foot down the pitch and across to outside off stump before the ball was bowled, and then having to adjust to the line of the delivery. He's been doing that for the last six months or so and I'm not quite sure what has caused it.

 

[Spikey]

jumping on board the 'wood will be called unlucky when he's just bowling too short" train

 

[Spark]

Re. Taylor - I can't watch at the moment, but it sounds like he got out due to closing himself off with his head way outside the line of off stump. This has been a real problem for him recently - I noticed in the first innings as well he was often casting himself with his front foot down the pitch and across to outside off stump before the ball was bowled, and then having to adjust to the line of the delivery. He's been doing that for the last six months or so and I'm not quite sure what has caused it.

Yep, this is pretty much exactly what happened.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Re. Taylor - I can't watch at the moment, but it sounds like he got out due to closing himself off with his head way outside the line of off stump. This has been a real problem for him recently - I noticed in the first innings as well he was often casting himself with his front foot down the pitch and across to outside off stump before the ball was bowled, and then having to adjust to the line of the delivery. He's been doing that for the last six months or so and I'm not quite sure what has caused it.

Think it's a side effect of him changing to that slightly front on stance - his hands in his pick up will move away from his body (towards gully) when you are more chest on facing the bowler.

Hands drags the head across, once the head goes it's hard to realign yourself to hit the ball straight down the wicket.

 

[greg]

Feel England are wasting too many overs here. OK so they are bowling pretty well and getting a few balls past the bat, but they haven't got the luxury of time to persist with the same attack for a long period. I would get the spinner on ASAP. He's going to have to bowl at some point, so best to do it sooner rather than later. Rotate the seamers at the other end. Have to give the batsmen a variety of challenges with so few overs to play with.

Frankly Ali is a more likely matchwinner than Stokes so wrong bowler to bring on.