6th June - Group A - England v New Zealand

[Scaly piscine]

Grrr. Another one not making it count.

 

[NZTailender]

inb4 260a/o

 

[Zinzan]

Was just about to post if NZ can only troll a couple of quick wickets, England could easily slide.

That'll help.

 

[Howsie]

Yeah but we are facing NZ, not one of the premier batting line ups so that makes up for it.

Bangladesh strolled through to 300 against your lot ffs.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Timely wicket

 

[91Jmay]

That was a poor innings from Stokes. Built pressure on the other bats and was too block or slog. Teetering now, need 300

 

[Scaly piscine]

That was a poor innings from Stokes. Built pressure on the other bats and was too block or slog. Teetering now, need 300

48 off 53, I don't think so.

 

[straw man]

NZ plan for chasing 340:

- Ronchi 9 (7)
- Guptill, Williamson and Taylor aka The Batting gets us to 220/2 in good time
- Torrential rain
- Duckworth Lewis assumes a competent lower middle order
- Win!

 

[Zinzan]

That was a poor innings from Stokes. Built pressure on the other bats and was too block or slog. Teetering now, need 300

Poor might be stretching it considering he was striking over 90 in the final wash It wasn't ideal that he hogged the strike from Root, but Root should be better than that.

Sangakkara's bang on about the slower bouncers sticking into the deck btw, especially with an older ball. England bowlers should learn quite a bit from this.

 

[Prince EWS]

God loves Corey.

With all his heart.

 

[weldone]

NZ plan for chasing 340:

- Ronchi 9 (7)
- Guptill, Williamson and Taylor aka The Batting gets us to 220/2 in good time
- Torrential rain
- Duckworth Lewis assumes a competent lower middle order
- Win!

Haha sounds very possible, although England will fall short of that mark by about 55

 

[cnerd123]

Great catch

Trust England to lose the one game I want them to win.

 

[NUFAN]

Massive wicket for NZ. From here I think England takes 300.

 

[91Jmay]

Yeah that's a screaming catch, big pressure now. Rashid to knock it about then Plunkett in to clear ropes.

 

[Flem274*]

coreys bowling exists as sweet, strawberry flavoured revenge for the bowlers in the flat pitch era

 

[Zinzan]

Great catch. Anderson continues to be uncanny, bowling absolute pies.

 

[StephenZA]

Huge pressure on Buttler here....

 

[Daemon]

England better ****ing win this

Great catch

Trust England to lose the one game I want them to win.

Nah centurymaker was right, Bangladesh are better off if England lose this one by a smallish margin.

 

[OverratedSanity]

All on Buttler to get them to 320+

 

[straw man]

Amazed they're not off the field, it's pissing down.