*Official* New Zealand in England 2015

[Athlai]

Imagine if Southee hadn't declined so much eh?

 

[Furball]

For **** sake Bell.

 

[Hurricane]

That stop at point off the first ball to keep Bell on strike was huge.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Fire the ump, that's atrocious.

 

[Furball]

Hasn't Lords taken a bit of turn later on in recent seasons or have I mixed it up with another English ground?

Most English grounds offer good turn.

 

[Burgey]

Howe, your voice is posher than your northern locale suggests.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

This game will be as good as done by lunch.

 

[Furball]

Fire the ump, that's atrocious.

No balls should be called by the third umpire, particularly as the on field guys don't seem to bother checking.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

I don't see the FFS bell there at all. Was a good ball.

 

[Furball]

Southee bowling a great length here.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

Just a thought on the excellent first two overs by Southee and Boult today - if there is any IPL rust affecting our players (and I have discounted this factor) it ought to be mostly gone by now. This may mean that our bowlers bowl much better this innings.

 

[Furball]

I don't see the FFS bell there at all. Was a good ball.

Woeful shot though.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

I don't see the FFS bell there at all. Was a good ball.

Just our resident Celtic fan has a problem with him.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

No balls should be called by the third umpire, particularly as the on field guys don't seem to bother checking.

Mike Selvey on twitter explained what's going on in UMPS heads with the no balls nowadays.

First point is they stand a lot further back than they used to mainly because they don't want to get hit (fair enough)

Knock on being its a lot harder for them to see the no balls.

Also they're very reluctant to call the marginal NBs because if they do and it turns out it was a fair ball the decision can't be reversed.

The point of course being that they shouldn't be calling the noballs and that it should be done with technology.

 

[Burgey]

Oh Smudge....

 

[Daemon]

Was listening to the CW comms and they showed the commentary box with Nasser on screen. For a moment there I was wondering why the audio and video didn't match.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

Woeful shot though.

What was he supposed to do the line had it going onto the stumps. Just got done by a great outswinger on the second ball of a morning when he's not yet in.

 

[Furball]

Just our resident Celtic fan has a problem with him.

Nasser just articulating why it was such a poor dismissal.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Fair enough if it's marginal, but half his foot was behind the line.

 

[Furball]

What was he supposed to do the line had it going onto the stumps. Just got done by a great outswinger on the second ball of a morning when he's not yet in.

Not walk at it; maybe don't drive at good balls until you're in.