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***Official*** England in New Zealand 2018
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wellAlbidarned
International Coach
all set for a ross epic
Athlai
Not Terrible
I really do want Ross and Kane to be battling over the most NZ 100s for the rest of Taylor's career.
Meridio
International Regular
I don't have a lot of faith in Latham's ability to bat out a day here - too prone to flirty drives outside off stump - so a huge amount is riding on Taylor, and Nicholls/Watling when they come in. The trend of this game (and all in NZ in the last forever) has been for there to be next to zilch movement once the ball is >25 overs old, but those two wickets will have given England a massive lift and sent the wobbles into the NZ batting lineup - they can now attack as they please without any worry (small as that was to start with) of everything flattening out and us bashing it around in the afternoon.
wellAlbidarned
International Coach
if we're going to get out of this alive I don't think it'll be by everyone dead-batting - we need either taylor or cdg to play a counterpunch innings to put some vague concern about runs into roots mind. easier said than done of course.
Meridio
International Regular
As nice as that is for them, I'd rather it wasn't at our expense...
Plus I've been enjoying it over here being up in this series, it's going to be unbearable if we don't come through.
Yeah some of our most enjoyable series in recent times have been against New Zealand. This winter would have been so much more fun with a 3 Test series ashes and a 3 Test series here.
Don't think runs will be a concern, unlike Auckland.
Current 318 runs behind, 92 overs max (and probably less due to light), so NZ need min 3.5 rpo to get close. Will need some donkey drop bowling, or England using 5 slips all day, or de Grandhomme smashing a quick 80 to get a run rate that high.
IIRC in Auckland England were 237 behind starting day 5, so needed 2.7 rpo to get ahead. Much more realistic, which led to Kane using de Grandhomme for a long mid innings spell to keep the run rate down.
Immenso
International Vice-Captain
3 match series yes. The post you were replying ot about a 4 match series, not really.
I don't think NZ cricket team are mentally strong enough to make a 4 match series interesting. Sad to say. Well, it would be a tough few years anyway until they got conditioned.
I can't imagine how we would go in a 5 match series touring Australia.
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I'm not sure how many four-test series we've had in our history - England 1999 is the only one I can think of, and we won that.
Immenso
International Vice-Captain
We've had 3 in my 35 years watching the game. All away tours.
England 83, West Indies 84/85 (brave), England 1999. Lost 1-3, Lost 0-2, won 2-1.
Might have had a few in the 'olden days' when travelling by boat etc. E.g 1949 tour to England was 4 tests (3 day tests, though).
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S.Kennedy
International Vice-Captain
New Zealand actually played a lot of five-test series 1953 - 1962 (v SA twice, India, England). There was a further five-test series 1971-2 (in WI) which ended in five draws! That was New Zealander's last five-tester.
Oh, Taylor's gone. England are 90% there then with Williamson and Taylor both out.
Oh, Taylor's gone. England are 90% there then with Williamson and Taylor both out.