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

[Fuller Pilch]

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.

Wikipedia says 423 runs vs SL in 2018 so this will be close.

Equal record??

 

[ashley bach]

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.

I think our biggest margin of winning by runs was 423. We just beat it by 1!!

Edit: O damn think we tied

 

[thundaboult]

Helluva career Tim, well done. Roller coaster ride what a journey.

 

[FBU]

Santner 17.2-2-92-7

 

[ashley bach]

Thanks for the good memories Timmy





And the bad ones

 

[ashley bach]

Santner 17.2-2-92-7

And 76 + 49

 

[NZTailender]

@_Ed_

 

[NZTailender]

Thanks for the good memories Timmy





And the bad ones

Reckon we'll look more kindly on his career in 3 to 5 years.

The stink will linger, but eventually dissipate.

 

[_Ed_]

That was a bit of a weird test series, really. It didn't feel like there were many days where both teams were playing well at the same time.

 

[King Kane]

I would've preferred to send Southee off with a series win but at least we sent him off with a record test win and avoided an embarrassing clean sweep.

 

[Bahnz]

Santner 17.2-2-92-7

Lol in 2 games he's transformed his record from heinous to perfectly respectable for a SENA spinner (especially when you consider his batting). Would probably be averaging sub-30 if he'd been fit at Wankhede.

 

[Bahnz]

That was a bit of a weird test series, really. It didn't feel like there were many days where both teams were playing well at the same time.

Yeah, felt like the two teams were very evenly matched and yet we finished with 3 blow-outs.

 

[thierry henry]

Weird thing is our recent series against the Big 3 have imo told us little about this team - just confirmed that we choke against Australia, always beat India, and are too easily spooked by BazBall.

I genuinely reckon we would be able to benchmark where we're at better via a routine home series against a Sri Lanka or Pakistan or Bangladesh.

 

[Meridio]

An absolute thrashing and a reminder of the downsides of the way England play - we've heard a lot about the upsides of it this series due to the way the first two tests went, but this sort of performance has always been the flip side.

For NZ meanwhile I'm sure we'll hear a lot about small margins in sport and how different it could have been but this series really feels like we just totally threw it away, and in ways that have been very common in the last 2 years. Pity we now sit around without any test cricket for months on end when we've still got all of January, February and March ahead of us.

 

[Bahnz]

And yeah, this whole test win feels a little hollow given that England basically stopped trying the moment Stokes was dismissed in the first innings. Yeah, from that point NZ wins no matter what anyway, but would be nice to see England acting like they're paid professionals rather than a club team on tour.

 

[anonymouskefe]

Kiwi test summer is over 2 weeks after summer has started

 

[SteveNZ]

I know England have this team first edict but surely have a bit of personal pride about you, and fight a bit for fans too who would like to see you put in an effort.

They were absolutely atrocious in this Test in intensity and effort.

 

[SteveNZ]

As for us, feels a bit sickening that it's December 17 and Test cricket is over for the summer.

We come away with a few positives: Will O'Rourke is probably better than we even thought, Matt Henry is still world class and Mitchell Santner may have worked out Test cricket... although fitting him into XIs in future might be problematic in seam friendly conditions.

But equally still a few issues. Look forward to a new coach having a go at addressing them

 

[Bahnz]

Also would look a bit weird to give MotM to a guy who picked up 4/70, but O'Rourke totally deserves it.

 

[_Ed_]

Also would look a bit weird to give MotM to a guy who picked up 4/70, but O'Rourke totally deserves it.

Can't believe his series average ended up at 38.8.