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

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Fuller Pilch said:
I think he is decent at interviewing players for puff pieces, just not ball by ball comments.
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He did a really good interview with Valerie Adams at one stage that must have been half an hour long, and he just asked a couple of broad questions and let her do all the talking. Not sure why he feels the need to approach commentary so differently.
 
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Betterpolo said:
He has and it's all a bit of a muddle. Given how they've messed with the batting order they may as well go all in with their best batters as they see it and simply don't worry about the position. I mean, the openers are not supposed to play like openers anyway so why does it matter who opens?
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I'd be tempted to give Bethell a chance but I suspect he will be the reserve next year. Think Crawley, Pope and Bashir are pencilled in for the ashes and feel all three could end up being casualties.
 
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Ego, again. It can do bad things to a person. Sumo might come across as a decent bloke, but he was a patsy at Sky for them and the NZRU, left, then all of a sudden had a critical opinion.

And now he hogs the mike despite knowing nothing about the game. He flat out shouldn't do Tests. T20 I don't mind
 
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Well that sounded like fun, can't wait to watch O'Rourke's spell when I get home. The ball by ball commentator on the Grauniad called O'Rourke the best young fast bowler in the world. Re his pace today, I imagine it helps that he knows this is the last true test he's likely to play for 12 months, but 95mph in the second innings of a test is ridiculous no matter the circumstances. What's particularly exciting about it is it seems so effortless. He's not like a Mark Wood where he can bowl absolute gas for 10 overs and then has to slow down, but more like a Jofra Archer where he could bowl that quick for ages so long as his rhythm is good.
 
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anonymouskefe said:
Fox sports in aus have mark howard who like Stevenson didn’t play international cricket. However he doesn’t try and act like he knows what’s going on out there and has a far better knowledge of the rules , also helps that they have 3 people on at once so at least there’s still some expertise
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I saw footage of Howard going off in the commentary box recently when Starc got Jaiswal first ball and it sounded ****ing ridiculous. Big booming voice with dramatic pauses between each word. Benaud would be rolling in his grave.

I usually find Howie not too bad usually, but he seemed to have a moment where he thought he had to become James Brayshaw, and that's never a good idea.
 
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This is ending in a hurry.

Anyone know what our biggest winning margin is by runs? I tried looking it up on Statsguru but it seems to be down.
 
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