***Official*** England in New Zealand 2018

[Gnske]

Thoughts on Moeen's now stache-inclusive beard? It feels wrong tbh.

 

[cnerd123]

In those two balls, Latham scored more runs than 6 out of England's top 7 combined.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Chris wokes here to destroy some social constructs
Or not

 

[Gnske]

All seems a bit short right now, Latham and Williamson playing this late and back rather comfortably and appropriately unlike that **** we saw earlier.

 

[NZTailender]

Man I did a spit take at work just now when I checked the score for the first time. Actually kind of pissed that I'll be getting to the game after Boult's magi.

That said, if we collapse, I may see it in England's second innings around 7:30

 

[Stapel]

Sometimes you know you made the right decission to get out of bed in the middle of the night to watch some proper test cricket.

 

[straw man]

Chris wokes here to destroy some social constructs
Or not

the nefarious face of the patriarchy

 

[straw man]

Man I did a spit take at work just now when I checked the score for the first time. Actually kind of pissed that I'll be getting to the game after Boult's magi.

That said, if we collapse, I may see it in England's second innings around 7:30

ICC's next proposal: 4-day tests are too long, make them 2 days with 2 innings per day.

And yeah, you missed a very fun first innings.

 

[_Ed_]

It actually doesn't look like an awful crowd, and hopefully more will start to file in after work.

 

[Gnske]

the nefarious face of the patriarchy

I'd let him ***ually harass me

 

[The Hutt Rec]

This is about the point England started scoring some runs ... good to only have lost one wicket at this stage. Hopefully we can start scoring some now.

 

[Stapel]

Amidst the shock and awe the scorecard presents us, I cannot help but notice England have come in with 5 quicks & 1 spinner.
I know Overton has scored more runs than the rest of England combined. Yet, I would have gone for Vince, I guess.

 

[cnerd123]

Lol, England managed to score 1 leg bye in their innings of 58, making Leg Byes the 5th highest scorer in the team

 

[Gob]

Bwahahahahahaha

 

[quincywagstaff]

On a broader level, if this series doesn't improve for England I wonder how much extra pressure it will put on Bayliss? It seems to have generally been agreed that he was brought in for the ODI World Cup and would last till then but if they lost this series on the back of poor Test tours of India and Australia will they be pressured to act sooner? Perhaps make him ODI coach only?

 

[BeeGee]

I know everyone likes to take the piss out of a 58AO batting performance, but take a look at he highlights of Boult's bowling and you'll see one of the all time great spells of test bowling.

 

[Burgey]

Lol

Or as they say in Hawaii, alolha

 

[CricAddict]

Has there ever been a previous instance where just 2 bowlers bowled out the opposition team with no one else getting a single over?

 

[vcs]

Has there ever been a previous instance where just 2 bowlers bowled out the opposition team with no one else getting a single over?

Damn, I was about to ask the same question.

 

[straw man]

15th instance I think - it was posted several pages back