England in New Zealand 28 Nov-18 Dec 2024 - 3 Tests

[straw man]

Quick tune in now if you're not already @thierry henry , it's over-rate chat time

 

[Johan]

Conceded 5.

Will he score more than that in his first innings?

he will score a hundred

 

[grecian]

At the risk of calling it early... apart from Root and Stokes who is probably well past his best, I can't see any players in the England side remotely near world class. Relatively speaking could this indeed be one of the worst England sides to arrive on our shores? If not quite the worst ever. Edit: Ok and Brook is world class for sure.

This maybe one of the most ridiculous posts ever, and I'm not a fan of this side.

 

[King Kane]

Another pretty good session for us, just losing the one wicket for 89 runs,

England will be regretting bowling first unless we collapse in the last session which isn't looking likely.

 

[FBU]

Thought this was starting tomorrow. Have to follow it on Cricinfo. Tea I see.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

This maybe one of the most ridiculous posts ever, and I'm not a fan of this side.

Indeed. There's been plenty of **** England teams that have toured NZ previously.

 

[thierry henry]

Quick tune in now if you're not already @thierry henry , it's over-rate chat time

"over rates should be good" me and other imbeciles

"no I think they should be bad" CW geniuses

Absolute elite chat

 

[jcas0167]

Me either. My fave of all time is Bryan Waddle, whose closest shave with playing top level cricket was being a sub fielder in India because most of NZ's players couldn't control their bowels.

Now, if I'm listening to two complete morons being paid (presumably) to waffle in a characterless NZ accent then I can much more easily tolerate the one I have semi-fond memories of playing the game.

The TVNZ coverage in the 90's used to have a few non-cricketers. Peter Williams, Geoff Bryan and Grant Nisbett. I think Sky took their lead from Channel 9 in Australia who only had ex-players.

On the radio Garth Galloway and Ron Snowden are other non-top cricketers who were excellent.

 

[Johan]

feels like a draw loading

 

[King Kane]

The NZ commentators aren't too bad compared to the Australian commentators where you have to deal with the likes of Hayden, Langer and Warner.

I like the England commentators for this series too with Gower who is good value and Harmison who is a much better commentator than I expected.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

At the risk of calling it early... apart from Root and Stokes who is probably well past his best, I can't see any players in the England side remotely near world class. Relatively speaking could this indeed be one of the worst England sides to arrive on our shores? If not quite the worst ever. Edit: Ok and Brook is world class for sure.

Duckett is useful

 

[Fuller Pilch]

feels like a draw loading

NZ 600; Eng 415; NZ 250/3 dec; Eng 80 (Phillips 7/22; Ravindra 2/6)

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Hopefully by the end of the Aus-India series Williamson has a higher average than S Smith.

 

[Johan]

NZ 600; Eng 415; NZ 250/3 dec; Eng 80 (Phillips 7/22; Ravindra 2/6)

tickets wasted if that happens so fingers crossed

 

[Dick Rockett]

The TVNZ coverage in the 90's used to have a few non-cricketers. Peter Williams, Geoff Bryan and Grant Nisbett.

Quality all-rounders. TVNZ cared about being good back then, I guess because they hadn't forgotten how to be a public broadcaster.

 

[_Ed_]

Oh dear, Mitchell.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

What the hell happened there?

 

[_Ed_]

Quality all-rounders. TVNZ cared about being good back then, I guess because they hadn't forgotten how to be a public broadcaster.

The direction Williams has gone in more recent times is a shame.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Wow that is a little bit dumb

 

[_Ed_]

Is Blundell doing Movember? That's a very questionable look.