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

[straw man]

Truly the festival of Southee, who else gets an entire series when you should be nowhere near the team, as a tribute/sendoff? Arguably more like 5-6 tribute tests if you include India/SL.

Man, when Williamson retires after no longer being one of NZ's best batsmen and averaging 18 all of 2030, we'll have to raise the bar and give him a whole year of tribute matches.

 

[Skyliner]

“Tim Southee. Tim Southee. Tim Southee. Tim Southee. And coming up, more from Tim Southee”.
- Scotty Stevenson

 

[Skyliner]

Cricinfo with a massive facepalm, check out the two teams playing this match:

 

[Athlai]

Pakistan losing 3-0 is an easier pill to swallow

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Bunch of *****.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

It'll be interesting to see how Potts goes. He was very good when we toured England

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Even though he's not an opener, I really hope Young goes well

 

[Neil Young]

“No dead rubbers, so much on the line….Tim Southee is almost indispensable to this team”.
- Scotty Stevenson

What?

 

[Skyliner]

I never realised how much Southee had done for this country and for me personally. I feel ashamed about that, he is clearly our next cricketing knight.

 

[Skyliner]

What?

I know, but Stevenson said it.

 

[King Kane]

Hopefully Young can do a better job as an opener than Conway has managed to do in this series, he couldn't do ,much worse.

 

[Skyliner]

How is that not wides? Ridiculous.

 

[trundler]

Seamy road

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Stead's Army

Mr Stead goes off to bed with no change on his mind
Another opening bowler he will never have to find.

So, who do you think you are kidding Mr Southee
If you think you're not well gone?
We don't have the staff who will stop your shitty game
But we have Smith who can suck up all the blame

So, who do you think you are kidding Mr Southee
If you think NZ will drop you which they won't because they're a bunch of absolutely feckless man managers who couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery

Sorry, that last line doesn't scan well.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

How is that not a wide???

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

For the record, England’s over-rate at the moment: 15.0

 

[straw man]

Potts was very good for England when he played that series against us a few years ago. Even though he looked a very England-conditions Duke ball bowler, I'm still surprised he hasn't played more tests since then.

Horrible first over though.

 

[Skyliner]

I see NZC have been giving out to the crowd little cardboard ‘shirts’ with Southee on the back of them. Does the NZC marketing manager hand Stead the team sheet with the names of who will be playing in any given test?

 

[Hungry Llama]

on the basis of that 1st over, looks like defeat for england and 11 wkts for tim

 

[Bahnz]

Latham looking in one of his "imperious for 40-80 runs before spontaneously combusting" moods.