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

[Johan]

Woakes is no mug even though he has looked like one so far today and now Southee is playing him into form by allowing him to hit a couple of fours.

Southee has certainly been one of the MVPs for England this tour

 

[straw man]

Feels like Woakes has played and missed at about 10 of his 35 balls.

 

[thierry henry]

Feels like Woakes has played and missed at about 10 of his 35 balls.

It's BazBall baby. All bosh no nick.

 

[hendrix]

Brook has batted a lot better in this series so far than Root, he has had some luck but he's batted brilliantly in between the drops and the air swings.

I don't see any reason why he can't do the same in Australia next summer, he's getting better as a test batsman while Root is starting to decline now.

The reason is he doesn't get behind the line of the ball. Nathan Smith just bowled a ball at 128 kph into his ribs and he had no idea how to play it.

He is absolutely going to get found out.

 

[King Kane]

Southee has certainly been one of the MVPs for England this tour

At least he has been replaced by Smith now who looked a lot sharper than Southee in that over.

 

[_Ed_]

That was quite a funny dismissal.

But we couldn't get him out any other way, so we'll take it.

 

[straw man]

Nathan Smith!

So rare we hit the stumps these days.

 

[King Kane]

Smith strikes with a run out.

That was dozey from Brook.

 

[Gnske]

The quick single mentality takes another victim

 

[Bahnz]

What on earth...

 

[Johan]

Woakes you dumb ******

 

[thierry henry]

You did the right thing Harry

 

[King Kane]

That ended up being a pretty good session for us, it was looking ugly when Brook and Pope had England sailing past 200 with only 4 wickets down,

There's still some hope we can keep England to around 300 if we can wrap up their tail quickly and don't let them wag again with Atkinson and Carse.

 

[Gnske]

I'm just grateful that Hendrix took Latham to task for keeping O'Rourke off while two overs into an O'Rourke spell.

Changed the game.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

James Anderson still has more Test wickets than Tim Southee this year.

That's true and Southee has been extremely poor but Southee has competition from Matt Henry (averaging about 17 this year), O'Rourke (up with Seales and Jansen as the best young quick), plus Santner (13 wickets in his last test), Ajaz (11 in his last) and future great all-rounders Phillips & Smith.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Hopefully knock them over over for 300ish and be no more than 1 down at stumps

 

[_Ed_]

Beauty.

 

[Bahnz]

Thank goodness someone finally knicked one.

 

[thierry henry]

lol 5 balls of Atkinson/Carse for 12 runs and a wicket.

 

[Gnske]

With teams like Tim Southee in them, you can't lose