*Official* New Zealand in England 2021

[Moss]

Hooh. Umpire’s call wins the day.

Broad does look in the zone.

 

[kaetor]

That looked out to me.

 

[straw man]

It's one of those incredibly difficult ones. To me, lots of these low catches look like they take a bit of ground, but people also always say the fore-shortening of lense causes it to look worse than it does, and plenty that look suspect to the naked eye end up retained as out. So that leaves... a fair bit of guesswork.

 

[Moss]

Really should have zoomed in before claiming it was “clearly” grounded

 

[Meridio]

Oooh I thought that was out tbh.

Think it's one of those ones where the fingers are splayed so even though the fingers are partly under the ball, it's touching the grass in the gap

 

[91Jmay]

Odd from 3rd ump, wasn't clearly grounded. No problem with it being not out really though. His fingers were under it but it hit ground imo, could go either way. Claiming Crawley shouldn't have claimed he caught it is pretty cretinous though

 

[Uppercut]

It's one of those incredibly difficult ones. To me, lots of these low catches look like they take a bit of ground, but people also always say the fore-shortening of lense causes it to look worse than it does. So that leaves... a fair bit of guesswork.

They did a demonstration of foreshortening on Sky one year. The ball looks grounded until it's about 9 or 10 inches in the air. Part of the game where the technology just isn't much help.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Right decision in the circumstances, but as the 3rd ump said it was “clearly on the ground” he would presumably have overruled a soft signal of out - and that would be wrong.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Interesting to compare to Ross Taylor's reaction when he did clearly take the catch in the first test and asked the umpire to check it because he wasn't sure.

Broad absolutely going off there, not a good look ... imo you can never be sure as the catcher when your fingers are spread like that, and taking the catch so low to the ground. Definitely took some grass imo.

If that makes me a cretin then so be it.

 

[wpdavid]

Stone and Wood bowling in tandem must be one of our quicker partnerships in recent times. Unless Archer and Wood have bowled together maybe.

EDIT
Scrap that, as Stone has replaced Wood, not Broad.

 

[Noumenon]

Oily Stone looks the business rightaway.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I wonder if the match referee will have to punish his stroppy son.

 

[Noumenon]

Just an over in but no signs of rustiness there. Oily Stone is well lubricated.

 

[wpdavid]

I wonder if the match referee will have to punish his stroppy son.

Must be a possibility. Didn't that happen last year too?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I wonder if the match referee will have to punish his stroppy son.

Probably should have when he was 10.

 

[Immenso]

I wonder if the match referee will have to punish his stroppy son.

Ha!

Both the reaction to soft signal and the final decision getting it up there, that would be great if he had to.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

Young looking a lot more comfortable in that short stint than he did in his two tests against the West Indies earlier this season, good to see. The county stint must have helped a lot.

 

[Moss]

Aside from the catch that wasn't, Conway and Young look alright. NZ made the ball hoop yesterday after lunch though, so may well prove to be quite challenging when they get back.

 

[nzfan]

Reasonable session. Although Latham is out, England bowlers fed nice half volleys to Devon so nz had the better of the session. Hundred coming up for Devon

 

[Flem274*]

that catch was grassed and broads a melt