*Official* England in NZ 2023

[Prince EWS]

cricinfo lists Young at 3 – is this for reals?

Listing him at 4 for me.

 

[Pothas]

Makes it more useful to defend the main three and more useful to attack the worst of the four IMO.

One them is Wagner though. Feel like he will go for runs regardless.

 

[ataraxia]

Listing him at 4 for me.

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New Zealand 1 Tom Latham, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Will Young, 4 Kane Williamson, 5 Henry Nicholls, 6 Daryl Mitchell, 7 Tom Blundell (wk), 8 Michael Bracewell, 9 Neil Wagner, 10 Tim Southee (capt), 11 Matt Henry.

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But yeah probs 4.

 

[Michelle Fivefer]

Loving the symmetry of the scores of the first 3 players - 2,3, 4.
(Well, “loving” is pushing it.)

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Listing him at 4 for me.

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The lineup changes depending on what you write on the forum.

 

[Prince EWS]

One them is Wagner though. Feel like he will go for runs regardless.

Yeah true, but I think tactically I'd play Henry and Southee normally and then try to flog Bracewell (and Mitchell if/when he bowls).

England will probably just try to flog them all though. The meme seems almost self-perputating - I don't think they really were doing that when people first started accusing them of it.

 

[Howe_zat]

Loving the symmetry of the scores of the first 3 dismissals - 2,3, 4.
(Well, “loving” is pushing it.)

hey can you not post about 'first 3 dismissals' when we're one down and my stream is lagging

cheers

 

[Athlai]

Loving the symmetry of the scores of the first 3 players - 2,3, 4.
(Well, “loving” is pushing it.)

I just realised how good this username is

 

[Prince EWS]

hey can you not post about 'first 3 dismissals' when we're one down and my stream is lagging

cheers

Wait until you see the fourth one.

 

[Michelle Fivefer]

hey can you not post about 'first 3 dismissals' when we're one down and my stream is lagging



cheers

Typo. I amended it, but too late it seems!

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

4 down

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

jackets I can see being worn in this conference

 

[Prince EWS]

Terrible shot from Stokes.

 

[Howe_zat]

Wait until you see the fourth one.

None of you are my friends.

 

[nzfan]

Pitches like this finishes off careers. Is Crawley finished after this?

The ball is seaming like a mile. Imagine being the local domestic side playing on this sort of decks or even worse all year round. I know firebirds the local domestic side get a lot of stick for their batting but some of the decks dished out are even worse than this. It's such a lottery batting.

 

[Bahnz]

Henry looks like such a nightmare bowler when he hits that slightly fuller length.

 

[Howe_zat]

Alright imma go to bed

 

[straw man]

The NZ selectors would probably justify selecting Macewell and Mitchell as 4th and 5th bowlers as being the same formula that was successful in the past, when Santner and De Grandhomme were 4th and 5th.

While Macewell approx equals Santner as a test bowler, that old formula used to work because our 5th bowler CDG was better than our 4th and almost frontline bowler level in many conditions. Certainly >>>> Mitchell. That's no slight on Mitchell's part-timers, it just tells us that in this side we should select an actual frontline 4th bowler.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Ollie Nope

 

[Prince EWS]

Well that was certainly a thing from Pope.