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

[thundaboult]

Watching Phillips now I reckon he could've bowled a lot more today.

yea hes pretty good aint he

 

[Jezroy]

this current NZ team doesn't deserve services of Smith

He must be wondering what the **** is going on

 

[thierry henry]

Sumo calls him ‘Harry Brooks’ having commentated him all day

 

[Johan]

England's day

 

[ataraxia]

What a frustrating day.

 

[thierry henry]

The ridiculous India result has really confused things because we are still really ****ing diabolical. Still good players, playing largely like arseholes.

 

[ashley bach]

Both teams end their day of batting on 319 @SillyCowCorner1

 

[Jezroy]

Is there a good reliable page with up to date records on dropped chances? Even the last few years?

 

[King Kane]

Brook should go and buy a lottery ticket, it's been his lucky day.

Tomorrow could get ugly if we can't take some early wickets and keep dropping catches .

 

[Bahnz]

Latham absolutely pissed himself with fear the second he saw Stoakes wind up. It didn't actually come to him all that quick either. If Stoakes hits a similar chance from a text book cover drive I reckon he takes it easily.

 

[ashley bach]

Don't know whether it's just my setup but the tvnz app is garbage. Constantly freezing and needing reloading.

Dave White says gidday mate

 

[Bahnz]

Is there a good reliable page with up to date records on dropped chances? Even the last few years?

Don't think so. During the India series a graphic flashed up with the catching percentages for the different teams in the current WTC, and if I recall correctly NZ were 5th. I suspect we might have slid down a rank or two after today.

 

[Johan]

Brook should go and buy a lottery ticket, it's been his lucky day.

Tomorrow could get ugly if we can't take some early wickets and keep dropping catches .

don't really see Stokes not declaring after 40 overs tomorrow

 

[smellcricketintheair]

All 4 test series in 2024 for NZ resulted in clean sweep. If they don't pull England back tomm, they are looking at another clean sweep.

 

[danzydab]

Baz and Key sighing a breath of relief
Pope and Stokes making useful contributions with the bat again. Otherwise they were becoming a burden on the team.

 

[Johan]

Baz and Key sighing a breath of relief
Pope and Stokes making useful contributions with the bat again. Otherwise they were becoming a burden on the team.

they're horrible against spin but atleast Stokes is pretty capable against pace.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Great day as an English fan.

Bowling tactics were bizarre early on then Crawley looked all at sea. Bethel looks out of his depth on first view but hopefully that was nerves and we were in the soup at lunch.

Brook was magnificent bar about half an hour either side of tea when he lost the plot completely getting dropped and having about 10 play and misses.

Pope is having a good game. I have often criticised him but he kept well being thrown in as a part timer and batted brilliantly once he got past his usual 20 ball jitters at the start. Probably the best catch I have ever seen live got him out to deny him what looked like being a ton. Good to see Stokes dig in and play properly.

Our day by a long way but NZ will kick themselves, dropped some pretty easy catches and lost the momentum in the process. Long way back if we get a decent lead. New ball is vital.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

I reckon with the india series where we were so certain we were going to get destroyed that it broke us out of a lot of our shitty patterns. Now that we're back in our comfort zone it's all coming back.

 

[straw man]

Didn't see much of today's play but we dropped six catches ?? Will get my popcorn for the highlights.

Some symmetry with our batting effort in which we also gave England about six free wickets.

 

[BazBall21]

I need to go sleep before a ball is bowled because on both days, England's match situation has been a lot better at stumps then when I turned the TV off.