*Official* 2022 New Zealand Tour of England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands

[flibbertyjibber]

Nice ton Boult.

 

[Howe_zat]

I hope Stuart Broad never retires

In many ways the world's greatest batsman.

Those ways don't include being effective, but that's fine really

 

[91Jmay]

He's awful against full stuff the meme about bowling short against him is a good scoring area for him

Just hacked a load of full stuff he's definitely getting bumped out now

 

[Spark]

Why are they bowling length balls to Broad? Bouncers or yorkers, it's worked for 10+ years now.

 

[Prince EWS]

Bad luck to Overton, but I have to say as an NZ fan that was one of the most frustrating innings to watch that I’ve ever seen. Every second or third ball it seemed like he was playing and missing or getting a thick edge into a gap.

Thanks for that, Darlingface.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Broad this is exactly what we wanted.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Will get over Overton missing his ton if Broad scores one instead.

 

[91Jmay]

Broad farming the strike

 

[Howe_zat]

Here we go lads

 

[GIMH]

Remember when we thought the follow on was inevitable

 

[nzfan]

At least our batters can't complain of fatigue we've only been there fielding for 60 overs

 

[Starfighter]

Shame I'm too cheap to pay for whoever is streaming this here. If there's one sight in cricket I'd drop everything for to watch, it's Broad giving it some welly with the bat.

 

[Flem274*]

Yeah but it’s a fairly run of the mill bad selection, no worse than England picking Crawley when he’d struggle to get in the Kent team. Knowingly picking 8 batsmen and 3 bowlers would be another level of madness.

No, this is worse. Bad batsmen are picked all the time. Imagine if Crawley (a similar FC bat to Bracewell) bowled offies during the declaration overs for a couple of seasons, picked up 20-30 wickets at 40-50 and got picked ahead of Jack Leach or Graeme Swann to bowl.

This is the single worst nz selection I have ever seen. It's insane both in how poor of a read it is and in its contempt for a proven bowler who has bowled us to victory before and the system he came from.

Whoever made this decision must never be involved with NZ coaching and selection again in any capacity, even if it was KW.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Innings defeat coming up?

And no doubt Jimmy will take Trent's world record off him. #tourfromhell

 

[GIMH]

Innings defeat coming up?

And no doubt Jimmy will take Trent's world record off him. #tourfromhell

You know he’s not playing right?

 

[StephenZA]

You know he’s not playing right?

Showing exactly how silly this game has gotten...

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I know the 90s had insane selection decisions, but this is the worst NZ selection call since a 19 year old Ken Rutherford was picked to debut in the Windies as an opener against peak Marshall. Hopefully now Bracewell will knock over the tail and turn it heaps on day 5.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

You know he’s not playing right?

That's right. I forgot. Small mercies.

 

[Starfighter]

They probably don't ask for much money and the bean counters at nzc would love that

But I'm sure you can get other cheap coaches elsewhere. Why do teams/admins keep picking proven failures?

 

[nzfan]

Finally they've brought Bracewell on. Either he gets smashed and never plays as a bowler again or takes couple of wickets and get us to bat again.