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

[Flem274*]

Ha, that's definitely not accurate. Although I did find it interesting (but bit my tongue) when some posters recently made a comment along the lines of wanting to bring Duffy into the side in place of Southee to have more height/bounce in the team. That seemed to me to be dealing in very fine margins since the height difference between the two might be an inch?

An inch can be very important

 

[ataraxia]

That was the series of the worst dropped catch of all time, Denly shelling Kane at mid wicket, which let us coast to the series-winning draw.

For posterity:

 

[Chubb]

For posterity:

Ed Smith's best mate got way too much rope.

Ed was giving his mate the chances he didn't get in 2003. It’s not that Denly was a bad cricketer, he was perfectly serviceable. But Smith’s attachment to him meant he was blind to other options and because of that friendship James Hildreth never got to play for England.

They would never admit it, but we all know that was what was going on.

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

For posterity:

Was that a deliberate slower ball from Archer or was it because he was too ****ed from bowling too many overs?

 

[Prince EWS]

An inch can be very important

 

[mackembhoy]

Bloody hell, he went and played two days with that on his mind

Some hopefully good news on that front anyway

Man arrested over burglary at cricketer Ben Stokes's County Durham home - BBC News

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Have tickets for all of the Basin test and the Saturday at Hagley. If anyone else is in attendance, let me know and we can grab a beer or two.

at some point I slipped off the cricketnation email and as a result I keep missing tickets, they're already gone!

 

[Flem274*]

Not sure who will be fit, so assuming Sears is out..

Latham
Conway
KW
Ravindra
Young/Phillips
Mitchell
Blundell
Santner
Smith
Henry
O'Rourke

 

[NZTailender]

Not sure who will be fit, so assuming Sears is out..

Latham
Conway
KW
Ravindra
Young/Phillips
Mitchell
Blundell
Santner
Smith
Henry
O'Rourke

If you chose a team based on 2024 performance and left out anyone averaging under 30 with the bat or over 30 with the ball you'd get this side in bold, but if you reduce the cut off to the overseas tours (5 tests) you get the same side plus italics:

1.
2. Conway
3. Williamson
4. Ravindra
5. Young
6. Phillips
7.
8. Santner
9. Henry
10. Jamieson/Patel
11. O'Rourke

Solution: make the captain keep and bring in a new opener - or Mitchell to open

 

[Daemon]

Wasn’t england in nz like last year or something

 

[Son Of Coco]

Was that a deliberate slower ball from Archer or was it because he was too ****ed from bowling too many overs?

It's good to have the moment Root broke Archer on camera.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Wasn’t england in nz like last year or something

England test tours to NZ in recent years:

2017/18: 2 tests
2019/20: 2 tests
2022/23: 2 tests

Now
24/25: 3 tests

We've also played over there a lot and have 3 tests in England (and 1 in Ireland) in 2026.

 

[Skyliner]

Santner and Phillips duke it out for one spot. You surely cannot drop Young.

1/ Conway
2/ Latham
3/ Young
4/ Williamson
5/ Ravindra
6/ Mitchell
7/ Blundell
8/ Santner/Phillips
9/ Smith
10/ Henry
11/ O’Rourke

 

[The Hutt Rec]

England test tours to NZ in recent years:

2017/18: 2 tests
2019/20: 2 tests
2022/23: 3 tests

Now
24/25: 3 tests

We've also played over there a lot and have 3 tests in England (and 1 in Ireland) in 2026.

2022/23 was 2 tests. This is our first three match series at home since South Africa in 2016/17.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

NZ clear favourite now for this. Come on the underdogs

 

[Fuller Pilch]

2022/23 was 2 tests. This is our first three match series at home since South Africa in 2016/17.

Oops sorry. Wasn't thinking

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Santner and Phillips duke it out for one spot. You surely cannot drop Young.

1/ Conway
2/ Latham
3/ Young
4/ Williamson
5/ Ravindra
6/ Mitchell
7/ Blundell
8/ Santner/Phillips
9/ Smith
10/ Henry
11/ O’Rourke

You can't drop Phillips. Since returning to the test side he's been our 3rd best player behind Henry and Ravindra.

Either Young stays as back up, or Latham takes the keeping gloves instead of Blundell as we go all out for 3-0 and a place in the WTC final

 

[ashley bach]

Willing them to somehow find a spot for Young despite what selection problems it causes. He's gone as close as you can to earning it.

 

[ashley bach]

Mind you gonna be hard not to after winning player of the series.

 

[Flem274*]

I'm not so sure Young has changed his spots. He has been scoring awesome 50s on minefields since he was young. His issue is throwing away starts on motorways.

I suspect he would have scored the same if the Indian decks were flat.

Hopefully he has changed, but it's still a risk.