*Official* New Zealand in England 2021

[Lillian Thomson]

That bloke wants to be famous for five minutes on YouTube like this lady was.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

well, here's the noted big boi

 

[Athlai]

Just looks naked without the mo

 

[thierry henry]

What’s the obsession with declaring. I only care about not losing.

 

[hendrix]

What’s the obsession with declaring. I only care about not losing.

We have zero chance of losing from here. We easily have enough runs to be out of reach

 

[straw man]

We have zero chance of losing from here. We easily have enough runs to be out of reach

I think we're 95% safe, question whether want to make it 100% or not. The former is more entertaining of course.

 

[nzfan]

Like it we went for it rather than trying to get some batting practice. Now declare please. England can't pull off 272 in two sessions on the last day deck.

 

[cnerd123]

declare now make England bat whenever play resumes.

Or y'know keep batting and take the boring draw.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

seems like the rain god wanted a declaration

 

[honestbharani]

IT kinda sucks if we dont get a full rest of the day's play coz inspite of appearances, only 3 folks have made 50s so far this test.

 

[Frost]

Poncho man was easily my favorite part of the day, I wonder what Ollie Robinson thought about it ?

 

[Mike5181]

That bloke wants to be famous for five minutes on YouTube like this lady was.

They're all fighting for the silver medal anyway:

 

[nzfan]

Been reading there's rain about during the wtc as well

 

[Magrat Garlick]

the rare asr spotted

 

[Uppercut]

Yeah I get being scared of England’s bowling last night but being scared of their batting chasing 275 in two sessions is too far, especially without Butler.

 

[Bahnz]

We have zero chance of losing from here. We easily have enough runs to be out of reach

Wouldn't say zero chance 270 in 73 overs is pretty gettable. If England don't lose early wickets then they can most of the way batting fairly normally. Would only need to up the pace for the last 20 overs or so.

If they get out on time after lunch then I'd probably bat the score up to 300 as quickly as possible.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Wouldn't say zero chance 270 in 73 overs is pretty gettable. If England don't lose early wickets then they can most of the way batting fairly normally. Would only need to up the pace for the last 20 overs or so.

No way they'll get 73 overs in tho unless the evening session goes for like five hours

 

[Uppercut]

No way they'll get 73 overs in tho unless the evening session goes for like five hours

If England start threatening to win they’ll be lucky if New Zealand bowl 40 overs at them.

 

[thierry henry]

Yeah but why are you guys assessing *likely* scenarios and not nightmare “most embarrassing and unlikely defeat ever” scenarios, which we should be trying to avoid as #1 priority

 

[Uppercut]

What’s all this **** about using a test match series as preparation for some ****ing trinket. I’ll be deep in the cold ground before I recognise the ‘WTC’, whatever that is.