*Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands

[Flametree]

Not a good day for Foakes...

 

[CharlesLara]

YES! WAG

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Playing like the WTC champs that they are.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Who needs 4 bowlers anyway? Feck's sake.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

I know people will say England have won the series but this is why I think it’s too early to say their Test Cricket had turned the corner. What Bairstow did in the last test was amazing but you can’t expect that to happen every test. If they are just going to play white ball cricket in Tests then on balance I expect them to lose more than they win

Nobody with a brain said it had. We still have exactly the same problems as the winter, no openers and a dodgy number 3. Plus we rely on 2 pensioners with the ball. We may get short term success but it is being built on quicksand and will fall apart very quickly as it has today.

 

[nzfan]

What an unbelievable way to get back down to earth. Crazy stuff, this sport is unpredictable

 

[Flem274*]

someone dropped this gentleman.

remember how whenever we drop wagner we start losing?

people who pick this team don't.

one man artillery barrage.

 

[CharlesLara]

For the sake of a big middle faaaaaang to the selectors, I'm stoked for Wagner. This has been EXACTLY whats been missing

 

[Mike5181]

Man, I've missed Wagner so much.

 

[grecian]

I know people will say England have won the series but this is why I think it’s too early to say their Test Cricket had turned the corner. What Bairstow did in the last test was amazing but you can’t expect that to happen every test. If they are just going to play white ball cricket in Tests then on balance I expect them to lose more than they win

I think most England fans here were always pretty sanguine about it all, in the end we just enjoyed Root and Bairstows heroics, but yeah we know that Crawley and Lees aren't test openers, Pope isn't a number 3, and Foakes isn't great.

EDIT: Oh and I ****ing hate Stokes playing just as a batsman, play if you are fully fit, don't bother else, as he ever scored runs when he hasn't the safety net as a bowler.

 

[Preed]

has Stokes totally lost the plot .This is a test match not a one day game.No excuse for that approach and don’t excuse it because of the previous test.I think this new approach should be tempered with common sense. Totally shocked at the insult to the spectators

 

[trundler]

Gary Stead you ****ing bastard. I can't believe we missed out on Wagnerball in two consecutive away tours. Ugh.

 

[Moss]

Okay, chose a rather interesting period to focus on work. Took Wagner all of one over to respond to the dropping I see!

 

[Flametree]

Yeah Trent Bridge was flat as anything, and the ball wasn't swinging. A bit different when it's a new ball doing something...

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

has Stokes totally lost the plot .This is a test match not a one day game.No excuse for that approach and don’t excuse it because of the previous test.I think this new approach should be tempered with common sense. Totally shocked at the insult to the spectators

Someone set his attack to 10/10 and forget that this is a test match...unlike the previous one. Clean slate.

Unless you're Sehwag or Blackwood, you don't need to play like this. You don't need to score 290 in 40 overs to win the game.

 

[CharlesLara]

For those confused about Stokes approach, us NZ fans have already seen 1.0 version of this mayhem. #earntheright

 

[thierry henry]

If England slog some runs here we’re gonna act like it was gr8 stuff. This is the fundamental problem with all cricket analysis.

 

[nzfan]

Bowl England out, bat again, score 200+ at least in the second dig and we'll be all sweet

 

[CharlesLara]

Someone set his attack to 10/10 and forget that this is a test match...unlike the previous one. Clean slate.

Unless you're Sehwag or Blackwood, you don't need to play like this. You don't need to score 290 in 40 overs to win the game.

For some reason Sehwag and Blackwood in the same sentence got me good! HAHAHA

 

[nzfan]

Can Overton bat all right?