kiwiviktor81
International Debutant
Wow. Rare to have seen such a day of total Black Cap domination. Save for a 5-minute period when Latham and Guptill got out, that was 100% our day.
A point about Kane Williamson, with reference to the 242* that he scored in the previous match. There are good batsmen, there are great batsmen, and there are batsmen with the potential to play innings that psychologically devastate the opposition. The sort of innings that made them wish they never played cricket. There's probably never more than 5 such batsmen going around in world cricket at any one time, but Williamson is one of them. England will be having nightmares tonight about a Williamson daddy hundred. Williamson will be thanking his cricketing gods that McCullum bled so many runs in the first innings because he will fantasise about scoring a triple century here.
England didn't bowl badly at any point today. They lacked incisiveness and didn't create many chances but their lines and lengths were generally pretty tight. It was just a day of absolutely first rate batting from the BCs.
As it is, there is potential for McCullum and Anderson to completely bat England out of the game tomorrow and leave them chasing a draw for 2 days.
A point about Kane Williamson, with reference to the 242* that he scored in the previous match. There are good batsmen, there are great batsmen, and there are batsmen with the potential to play innings that psychologically devastate the opposition. The sort of innings that made them wish they never played cricket. There's probably never more than 5 such batsmen going around in world cricket at any one time, but Williamson is one of them. England will be having nightmares tonight about a Williamson daddy hundred. Williamson will be thanking his cricketing gods that McCullum bled so many runs in the first innings because he will fantasise about scoring a triple century here.
England didn't bowl badly at any point today. They lacked incisiveness and didn't create many chances but their lines and lengths were generally pretty tight. It was just a day of absolutely first rate batting from the BCs.
As it is, there is potential for McCullum and Anderson to completely bat England out of the game tomorrow and leave them chasing a draw for 2 days.