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*Official* England in NZ 2023
- Thread starter G. S. Kohli
- Start date
Athlai
Not Terrible
Daemon prefers the flesh of man tbf
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Yes true
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
Ended up losing a lot of sleep to watch that Brook/Root masterclass. I wonder what the record is for fewest Tests needed to get to Number 1 in the rankings? The boy is an absolute star.
No idea what NZ were doing though. Surely in a must win Test you pick a side to take 20 wickets. The toss got them 3, not sure how they get the other 17. Wagner bowling short stuff is just parody cricket now, especially to two guys who play it well anyway. The only thing that can prevent another England win will be the weather.
No idea what NZ were doing though. Surely in a must win Test you pick a side to take 20 wickets. The toss got them 3, not sure how they get the other 17. Wagner bowling short stuff is just parody cricket now, especially to two guys who play it well anyway. The only thing that can prevent another England win will be the weather.
NZTailender
I can't believe I ate the whole thing
chris.hinton
International Captain
New Zealand fans have to put pressure on their coach to be sacked. He refuses to pick young talent and goes with a tired line up
In this instance, it’s Alick Bannerman rather than Charles.
Zinzan
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Just another case of England being superb & NZ utterly miserable.
Fancy going in with 2 opening bowlers, a 2023-standard Wagner & Mitchell as your pacers after winning the toss and bowling.
I notice nobody's surprised our selectors didn't make the necessary changes every cricket fan in the world sees.
On England, this Brook kid is something else & the only elephant in the room for them is Crawley who has to be replaced by Bairstow for the Ashes which means for me opening with Pope for a formidable top 6 of;
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Bairstow
Stokes
Fancy going in with 2 opening bowlers, a 2023-standard Wagner & Mitchell as your pacers after winning the toss and bowling.
I notice nobody's surprised our selectors didn't make the necessary changes every cricket fan in the world sees.
On England, this Brook kid is something else & the only elephant in the room for them is Crawley who has to be replaced by Bairstow for the Ashes which means for me opening with Pope for a formidable top 6 of;
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Bairstow
Stokes
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Stoinis???!!!
Socerer 01
International Captain
you know how bad the others must be when Maxwell seems like the most reasonable candidate in there
CricAddict
Cricketer Of The Year
I do think he had potential to do well in tests.
Socerer 01
International Captain
definitely think he was mismanaged during the Lehmann era when they didn’t have a good all-rounder and 5
this does make more sense.. except Stoinis has been trash in odis
Fuller Pilch
Hall of Fame Member
Thanks
Michelle Fivefer
U19 Cricketer
I wonder if Atherton was thinking the same when he was run out on that score …
Shady Slim
International Coach
pretty happy for joe root, on account of it must be frustrating to see some absolute monglers scoring big big runs playing hack cricket while you as the man who carried the batting lineup through all the dreadful years haven't quite perfectly fit into this new style. crawley with a typical effort as well wonderfully
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
I watched the 1st session and thought after a tough start, when NZ bowled and caught well, we did well to recover.
I woke up this morning, stunned to see that Brook had reached 184 and even more so given the fact only 60 overs were bowled in the day.
When I first came on this site a few months back, I said that Brook was the future of English cricket.
Quite a few people disagreed, which was understandable, if you'd not seen much of him.
However, even I didn't expect the sort of figures he's putting together at the moment and the speed at which he scores - I've been watching cricket for a long time and I've not seen any other English player start his career like this - he's been truly unbelievable.
Of course it's early days in his career and he still has a lot to prove but he's the best England batting prospect I've ever seen.
I woke up this morning, stunned to see that Brook had reached 184 and even more so given the fact only 60 overs were bowled in the day.
When I first came on this site a few months back, I said that Brook was the future of English cricket.
Quite a few people disagreed, which was understandable, if you'd not seen much of him.
However, even I didn't expect the sort of figures he's putting together at the moment and the speed at which he scores - I've been watching cricket for a long time and I've not seen any other English player start his career like this - he's been truly unbelievable.
Of course it's early days in his career and he still has a lot to prove but he's the best England batting prospect I've ever seen.
Brook's side
International Regular
Never made 100 at Lords either IIRC