**Official** England in New Zealand

[Magrat Garlick]

You didn't see Jo'burg 99\00? Can only presume the 14-year-old Dickinson knew better how to spend his time than the 14-year-old Pickup then TBH.

14yo on a Thursday at 9am.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Your mum\dad never heard of ONdigital then?

Never had any pay TV.

 

[Richard]

14yo on a Thursday at 9am.

What, you were expecting me to be lying in bed with the girlfriend of the day?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

What, you were expecting me to be lying in bed with the girlfriend of the day?

Schools. Wonderful invention. Heard attendance was compulsory.

 

[Jamee999]

There's this thing called school?

 

[chalky]

School always took 2nd place to a Test Match when I was younger TBH.

 

[Richard]

Schools. Wonderful invention. Heard attendance was compulsory.

There's this thing called school?

Ah, of course.

O0o0o0o0o0oh, blimey, a four.

 

[wpdavid]

Just seen the score. FFS, to put it very mildly indeed. This was supposed to be a road, wasn't it? These guys do play the game for a living, don't they?

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

There's this thing called school?

Richard didn't go to school. He had merged his brain into the internet long before then.

 

[Richard]

School always took 2nd place to a Test Match when I was younger TBH.

Oh, yeah... but so did lying in bed with the girlfriend for me TBH. Believe it or not, in those days the lying in bed with the girlfriend tended to come before the cricket.

 

[Richard]

Just seen the score. FFS, to put it very mildly indeed. This was supposed to be a road, wasn't it? These guys do play the game for a living, don't they?

It's not quite the road predicted, but there's been 1 average shot and 2 abysmal ones (Strauss' expected, Cook's not). Pietersen now doing his best to follow-suit.

 

[chalky]

Oh, yeah... but so did lying in bed with the girlfriend for me TBH. Believe it or not, in those days the lying in bed with the girlfriend tended to come before the cricket.

@14 Your parents must have been more liberal than mine

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Oh, yeah... but so did lying in bed with the girlfriend for me TBH. Believe it or not, in those days the lying in bed with the girlfriend tended to come before the cricket.

Heard you got infatuated with Craig White the next summer.

 

[Jamee999]

Wow, a shot!

 

[Richard]

@14 Your parents must have been more liberal than mine

Didn't know how many times I missed 1st lesson due to lying in bed TBH.

Bloody hell, Southee bowls the best delivery of the day so far at Pietersen there for my money.

 

[Woodster]

It's not quite the road predicted, but there's been 1 average shot and 2 abysmal ones (Strauss' expected, Cook's not). Pietersen now doing his best to follow-suit.

Track looks absolutely fine doesn't it ? Good bounce good carry, always going to do a bit with the new ball, but think this will be a belter.

 

[Richard]

Heard you got infatuated with Craig White the next summer.

Well, he bowled magnificently. But nothing could've persuaded me to desert my Corky, who bowled superbly too.

 

[Richard]

Track looks absolutely fine doesn't it ? Good bounce good carry, always going to do a bit with the new ball, but think this will be a belter.

Ironically, some of the best balls have been the ones that haven't got wickets.

Yeah, though, can see this flattening-out, us congratulating ourselves on managing 300, then NZ powering along to 570.

 

[wpdavid]

Ironically, some of the best balls have been the ones that haven't got wickets.

Yeah, though, can see this flattening-out, us congratulating ourselves on managing 300, then NZ powering along to 570.

If you can honestly see us getting 300, you're more of an optimist than me. I wouldn't put money on us reaching 3 figures right now.

 

[silentstriker]

You're only three wickets down! You remind me of a certain Indian pessimist that always ****s up the mood in Indian threads.