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*Official* England in NZ 2023

Skyliner

Skyliner

International 12th Man
Tickner should have started with the new ball. The NZ ‘brains trust’ not exhibiting a great deal of brains these days.
 
Nintendo

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Foakes walking out ahead of stokes now is wierd given how the past 2 batsmen have approached things. Are they gonna try and slow down a bit now or is stokes's knee ****ed again>
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
BazBall21 said:
Feel like England have largely bullied NZ in this Test and they can still logically win
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it's almost like mindless slogging is risky against anyone paid money to bowl a ball.

Bazball has merits, especially when a team has better bowlers than you have batsmen (hit them off that length) which is why it has been more successful for the lesser English players than trying to bat properly and sucks for Joe Root, but when you're facing a team playing their 14th and 15th best quicks, a part time spinner and a guy who should be doing the retirement county stint, you should just bat to the percentages.
 
Howe_zat

Howe_zat

Audio File
I'm guessing the change in order is that Foakes is there to be the more consistent partner to Root for now and Stokes might be more useful trying to set up a target later in the day.
 
Bahnz

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
Think it’s the former, bat normally for a session, then Stoakes comes out for a slog and declare in the evening.
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
Bahnz said:
Quality scalp that. He’s too scattergun to be good but with his pace and height he’ll periodically get good players out in good looking ways.
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He has these spells in him which is why I like him and NZ A like him but yeah he should never have been put in this position against this meme. People were comparing him to O'Brien but he's more similar to Harmison imo. He'll have days or months where he goes off and then periods of spraying it at 134kph.
 
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