*Official* England in NZ 2023

[G. S. Kohli]

brook will do okay but not the ****ing ducketts or the crawleys

Crawley hits 267 vs quality bowling attack of pak in Asian

Sub-continent, he is good player

 

[jcas0167]

That lofted straight six was beautiful to watch. Situation where de Grandhomme might be handy.

 

[Howe_zat]

Crawley hits 267 vs quality bowling attack of pak in Asian

Sub-continent, he is good player

He hit that in England in 2020. It was a solid attack though, on paper at least.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

My fear about Bazball is that if it becomes successful and catches on , Test cricket is going to become a slogathon , and ultimately with this speed of scoring its going to be reduced to 4 days .

 

[Howe_zat]

Anyway, good morning.

I see things immediately went to **** when I tried to get some kip. Won't happen again, I promise, though I am currently tempting fate by delving into statsguru tabs for Brook scoring records.

 

[Darwin Award]

And finally after 47 overs we have our first maiden over.

Shower Southee with praise.

 

[Flem274*]

Anyway, good morning.

I see things immediately went to **** when I tried to get some kip. Won't happen again, I promise, though I am currently tempting fate by delving into statsguru tabs for Brook scoring records.

did you only sleep like 2 hours?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Why hasn't Mitchell bowled?

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Disgracefully slow batting from Foakes with just 5 overs to go. They need to get to 320 at least.

This is test match
Good partnership since English captain throw his wicket

Already 145 runs since lunch

 

[thierry henry]

Very on brand for us to have frittered away an ok-ish position

 

[CricAddict]

Why hasn't Mitchell bowled?

It will be great if Mitchell and Bracewell can bowl in tandem and pick up all the remaining wickets.

You know why

 

[ashley bach]

Did Scotty Stevenson just say Tom Blundell was convinced of the caught behind but proved wrong by ultra edge? If he was actually watching the game Blundell did nothing more than put an arm up in the air as a mandatory polite enquire knowing full well it wasn’t out. He’s just an awful cricket commentator

Yeah thought he was a bit comedy club at first, gotten used to him but he does occasionally completely lose the plot.

 

[G. S. Kohli]

79* from 64

First maiden over wow

 

[Howe_zat]

did you only sleep like 2 hours?

Less lol.

 

[Howe_zat]

How's the weather holding up?

 

[nzfan]

So far we haven't bowled all that well barring Southee and England definitely have helped us by playing some average shots gifting wickets but the good thing is the pitch looks flat. It could have been worse if one of the top 4 guys got struck in but we have our noses slightly ahead here I think.

Bit of a solace is the pitch is flat and I think we can bat couple of days here quite comfortably.

 

[nzfan]

How's the weather holding up?

Way better than we thought it would. There's been no break whatsoever.

 

[grecian]

Not sure what Duckett's done to be ranked with Crawley.

Again finding no words for the way we play, oddly distasteful, but get's the job done, it's just better to let it perversely soak over you, bukkake cricket, it's not an edifying term, but it's better than Bazball.

 

[Darwin Award]

... If Brook does get to his ton he'll be in pretty exclusive company by racking up centuries in 4 consecutive test matches.

Only other English batter to do so (Twice) was Ken Barrington 56 years ago.

 

[thierry henry]

How's the weather holding up?

Absolutely bizarre.Thunder and lightning in the background with no rain yet