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

[thundaboult]

Wow Santner at 10 , very strong batting order

he aint even playing

 

[Prince EWS]

Wow Santner at 10 , very strong batting order

That's Southee, not Santner.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Bashir 3-45

@ashley bach

 

[Silver Silva]

Considering Williamson came in for him and made more than Young's highest ever score, not really.

Williamson was always going to comeback that doesn't mean Young should have been out the XI , when someone gets POS you find a place for him would played him and asked Latham to take the gloves in Blundell position , Young to open

he aint even playing

Meant Southee

 

[straw man]

It's not the way we do things of course, but would really prefer Phillips play the big shots and Henry and the rest of the tail bat for him.
Just this once.

 

[Prince EWS]

It's not the way we do things of course, but would really prefer Phillips play the big shots and Henry and the rest of the tail bat for him.
Just this once.

Yeah Henry and Southee actually do have reasonable defensive techniques when they decide to use them, especially Southee.

 

[King Kane]

Don't want to jinx him but Henry is looking in good touch hitting a couple of nice boundaries, he looks better playing shots than just defending.

 

[ataraxia]

It's not the way we do things of course, but would really prefer Phillips play the big shots and Henry and the rest of the tail bat for him.
Just this once.

Southee's on 93 sixes tho

 

[King Kane]

Phillips gives a Bashir long hop what it deserves with a six over midwicket.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

The stage is set for a Philips special here. To turn a middling total into an imposing one. Another 80-100 runs could be pretty game changing now. He's capable of doing it in about an hour if he goes full beast mode.

 

[Flem274*]

I know it's his accent but Harmison sounds like he's commentating drunk and I'm here for it.

 

[King Kane]

The stage is set for a Philips special here. To turn a middling total into an imposing one. Another 80-100 runs could be pretty game changing now. He's capable of doing it in about an hour if he goes full beast mode.

He is great at changing the momentum of matches with both bat and ball and in the field as well, a valuable all round cricketer.

 

[trundler]

Breaking: spin found extant at Hagley Oval

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Yeah Henry and Henry actually do have reasonable defensive techniques when they decide to use them, especially Southee.

NZ could genuinely use two Matt Henrys in their test team at the moment

Wouldn't have said that 4 or so years ago, but absolutely true now

 

[King Kane]

England wasting another review and they missed the one edge they should have reviewed.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

This over rate is so ridiculous once again that there is an argument that it is a form of cheating - whereby your main bowlers are getting extra rest and preventing the batting side from cashing in at the end of the day. Obvs harder for the batrers to start again the next day but the bowlers get to be fresh. Only solution is ban the captain for a match each time. Have they stopped doing this?

 

[ataraxia]

Southee might only face one ball of spin

 

[Immenso]

Dumb.

 

[straw man]

That is infuriating - Henry had actually struck a fairly good balance between defense and his natural game except charging Bashir a few times. We're going to strand Phillips on 45* yet again.

 

[King Kane]

That wasn't too clever from Henry, now we need Southee to bat sensibly which isn't ideal with his track record.