Group 1 (Afghanistan, Australia, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Ireland)

[trundler]

Haha, just not a good tournament for gun openers.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Kane!

 

[Daemon]

What a grab!

 

[Athlai]

Santa! Big daddy!

 

[Tec15]

Another failure for Buttler. The guy just can't open.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Oh he dropped it. Oops

 

[Daemon]

What a grab!

Or not lmao

 

[Tec15]

Oh, never mind.

 

[Athlai]

My whole life is a lie

 

[trundler]

Kane clearly scarred by playing the bigger man against England. Resorting to Ashwin tactics. Shame.

 

[Athlai]

Okay he probably didnt know

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Anyone else and there'd be a flood of 'cheat' cries.

But it's Kane.

 

[Burgey]

No spirit of cricket award this year for NZ then

 

[straw man]

Missed the last nz match after an unhappy event in our neighbourhood.

This match looks like fun, very roady and looks like NZ will need to chase a huge score.

 

[chris.hinton]

Sing it with me Chris.

?It’s a long way
To Tipperary
It’s a long way, to go….?

Song was written by my great great grandads best friend

 

[Zinzan]

Bad toss to lose unless there's dew later on.

Great start England. Problem if you don't get early wickets against England, they probable for 200+ with their six power & depth.

Ominous signs for New Zealand.

 

[SteveNZ]

It's OK, our 5th bowler is Ish Sodhi

 

[chris.hinton]

Good start for England. 200 is incoming. NZ are scarred by what happened in the Summer. Bless them

 

[Athlai]

Anyone else and there'd be a flood of 'cheat' cries.

But it's Kane.

My first slow mo replay had me saying that. But it bounced out of his hands, into the ground, back into his arms all while he was falling and out of his sight line. No way he could've registered the ball bouncing

 

[White Ball]

Looks a good deck would back NZ to chase down whatever total set