***Official*** England in New Zealand 2018

[veganbob]

Legendary innings from sodhi here.
Can't imagine santner ever playing with this much guts.

 

[Borges]

Another four, may be five, overs and the light will go.

 

[vcs]

Motm

Broad 6-54 & 2-68*
Southee 6-62, 1-65 & 50
Bairstow 101 & 36
CdG 0-44, 4-94, 72 & 45

Broad if England win, as he'll probably get another wicket or two.

Otherwise, Southee.

 

[91Jmay]

Full credit NZ for surviving. Sodhi gave a really tough chance on 0, needed it to stick. We didn’t deserve anything from series anyway

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Fmd stokes is a freak. Ambles in off about 15 paces while not fully fit and still hits 140kph

 

[straw man]

I'm not able to watch but it sounds like it's basically this out there and they should come off imo.

 

[cnerd123]

I hope Southee biffs Broad over long on for six on the last ball of the game

 

[harsh.ag]

Why the **** is Malan bowling??

 

[cnerd123]

Why the **** is Malan bowling??

To get the bored and tired batsmen to slog one to the fielders in the deep

Classic spin bowling

 

[Borges]

Why the **** is Malan bowling??

Well, they don't have Moeen Ali. And to be fair, this Malan does appear to be quite an improvement over Moeen Ali.

 

[BeeGee]

That mega silly point is hilarious.

Six overs to go.

 

[Prince EWS]

I'm not able to watch but it sounds like it's basically this out there and they should come off imo.

Confirmed, screenshot from my TV.

 

[_Ed_]

36 balls to go...

 

[straw man]

Confirmed, screenshot from my TV. View attachment 23999

Excellent demonstration of the blacker blacks of the OLED there. Night-time confirmed.

 

[thierry henry]

Regarding the post- daylight savings scheduling- I'm no expert on Christchurch weather but it certainly isn't getting dark by 4:30pm in Auckland and generally speaking it's not known to get dark early in NZ. This time of year it's more like 7pm before and 6pm after (actually more like 7:30 and 6:30 but I am allowing for the fact that good light is required for international cricket, rather than the marginal light I've had to battle playing 8-a-side twilight cricket).


Just seems like odd weather and a lack of flexibility to me. At this time of year most of NZ has plenty of daylight hours. Or maybe it's just a case of "get a climate Christchurch". Easily could have played a day test here in Auckland on these days.

ffs. I post this and it's the longest day of sunlight in South Island history.

 

[BeeGee]

This is awesome.

 

[Daemon]

I suppose a positive is that despite 3,4 and 5 doing sfa in both innings, NZ have still managed to compete in this test. Most if not all teams would've been cooked if faced with that scenario.

 

[straw man]

Was it the third to last over that Williamson took two wickets in, in this near-identical scenario in 2013 in Auckland?

 

[_Ed_]

Was it the third to last over that Williamson took two wickets in, in this near-identical scenario in 2013 in Auckland?

I think so, because he bowled the last one as well, didn't he?

 

[straw man]

That's what I thought, yes.