*Official* Opening Match- England v New Zealand- October 5th, Ahmedabad

[straw man]

Well that was satisfying

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

That NRR is going to be important I feel.

 

[Molehill]

Quite the massacre. But restricting England to 280 with that attack was a real heist. Would be tempted to give Latham the MoM award.

That's a fair assessment, so many wickets were gifted. Having said that, we could've scored 350 and it wouldn't have been nearly enough.

 

[Neil Young]

Poor Will Young. Finally sees off Henry Nicholls and then this happens.

 

[Aritro]

Gah, tuned in too late. How'd it go?

 

[thierry henry]

Crazy Conway facts

Played junior cricket with Quinton de Kock

Made his test debut less than 6 months before de Kock retired

He’s over a year older than de Kock too

 

[GIMH]

Thought the days of being humiliated on the global stage like the 2011 Sri Lanka game or 2015 Bangladesh game were over. This makes those look like nail-biters.

Don't see how this team come back from that.

Of course they’ll come back from it.

 

[Skyliner]

'The partnership between Devon Conway and Rachin Ravindra was an unbeaten 273 off 211 balls. All 11 Englishmen reached double figures, but these two were on a different planet.'

 

[chris.hinton]

****ing hell.

Well played New Zealand. That was a superb performance

 

[ashley bach]

That NRR is going to be important I feel.

That start certainly puts NZ in good stead.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Yeah dumb to right off England completely.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

write

 

[slippy888]

Gonna need 5 wins to qualify for sem final i think

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

Now Eng knows how Ind supporters felt watching that SF last year.

 

[chris.hinton]

People can point to Ben Stokes missing as a factor....It's not a factor hasn't a 1 day player for 2 years before he changed his mind

 

[ashley bach]

Of coarse you can't write off England but gee their bowling looks a big concern for them.

 

[Andyhere]

This is how you win, no need to count boundaries

 

[mackembhoy]

Mental you've deployed Ravindra as a lower order batsman so far in his career, in all 3 formats too.

 

[Molehill]

England got thrashed in the first match of the recent series with NZ and bounced back well. Could well be the kick up the backside they needed.

 

[chris.hinton]

Wonder how the BarmyArmy social media accounts will spin it