*Official** New Zealand in England

[luckyeddie]

Match report for you idle gits who cannot be bothered to go the Cricket Web front page can be found here

 

[Loony BoB]

so are they going to call for back up players or what??

I hope so. But... who? It's not batsmen that we need, it's bowlers. And NZ isn't too hot on the bowling side.

 

[luckyeddie]

butcher will surely play, unless you happen to be on the selection panel.

cheeky

I personally feel that if Vaughan is fit, the casualty will be Giles. The other possibility is Strauss. Four seamers at Headingley, please.

At the end of the day, these are the problems selectors love.

 

[luckyeddie]

I don't think its unfair. A decent bowler he might be; but he just doesn't get wickets often enough.

Can't fault you there. This last year must have been hell. He bowled well for a while today, but as soon as Nasser took command, that was it.

 

[tooextracool]

Match report for you idle gits who cannot be bothered to go the Cricket Web front page can be found here

wish you would bring up how trescos poor footwork cost him his wicket....decent article though.

 

[tooextracool]

I personally feel that if Vaughan is fit, the casualty will be Giles. The other possibility is Strauss. Four seamers at Headingley, please.

At the end of the day, these are the problems selectors love.

nope it should be giles or tresco....for the selectors it will be giles or hoggard(despite the fact that he is custom made to bowl at headingly) and i just get the feeling that it will be hoggard who will miss out

 

[gio]

Rumour is Nasser's may retire in the next 24 hours. Speaking on radio 5 live, he siad he has to go home, have a think, speak to his dad and decided wether a match winning hundred at Lords is a good way to bow out. I personally hope he doesn't. He deserves a hundred caps, he's been vital to England's progress these last 5 years.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

cheeky

I personally feel that if Vaughan is fit, the casualty will be Giles. The other possibility is Strauss. Four seamers at Headingley, please.

At the end of the day, these are the problems selectors love.

By the sounds of his interview at the end of the day i think we've seen Hussains last match.

 

[PY]

I agree, it would be a calamity if he went now but he would definitely go out on the top of his game and he deserves our respect for his decision whatever it is.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Rumour is Nasser's may retire in the next 24 hours. Speaking on radio 5 live, he siad he has to go home, have a think, speak to his dad and decided wether a match winning hundred at Lords is a good way to bow out. I personally hope he doesn't. He deserves a hundred caps, he's been vital to England's progress these last 5 years.

Well its no secret Hussain has wanted to make that 100 test caps. Unfortunatly that would mean he'd have to play a number of the WI tests too, which i think wont happen as he'll probably be dropped after the NZ tests. So i have a feeling that he will retire now.

 

[luckyeddie]

wish you would bring up how trescos poor footwork cost him his wicket....decent article though.

Just improved it 50,000,000% for you then, TEC - glad to.

It truly was awful footwork, I agree.

 

[twctopcat]

By the sounds of his interview at the end of the day i think we've seen Hussains last match.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Say it ain't so nass.

 

[luckyeddie]

You have an advantage over me - I didn't see the interview.

If he goes, it will be on his terms - and if he doesn't want to play the whole summer, I cannot think of a better way of going out.

/runs off to add something to the match report trailer

 

[biased indian]

Rumour is Nasser's may retire in the next 24 hours. Speaking on radio 5 live, he siad he has to go home, have a think, speak to his dad and decided wether a match winning hundred at Lords is a good way to bow out. I personally hope he doesn't. He deserves a hundred caps, he's been vital to England's progress these last 5 years.

Selector will be happy i think so

 

[PY]

You have an advantage over me - I didn't see the interview.

Audio : Nasser's Interview

Far right of the page.

 

[Loony BoB]

Talk about pulling a Cairns. All the good players are bowing out these days.

 

[luckyeddie]

Audio : Nasser's Interview

Far right of the page.

Thanks.

He is nothing if not unpredictable (Yay. Triple negative)

 

[PY]

An interesting image:

Did Strauss take one under the visor? Looks painful.

 

[luckyeddie]

An interesting image: (snipped)
Did Strauss take one under the visor? Looks painful.

Not at all. The ball looped up off his pad from Vettori, ran up his chest and wedged under the bottom wire of his visor. Smiles all round when he realised he was still alive.

Fantastic picture, though.

 

[marc71178]

looking at what martin and oram are getting out of the relatively new ball, it makes me come back to trescos decision of bowling with the old ball yesterday......doesnt look like runs are flowing off the bat now does it?

Yes, but are the England top order the same sorts of batsmen as Astle, Cairns and Oram who the Kiwis had in at the time.

And of course it's not as if the old ball didn't work is it?

As a final point, I don't think that it was necessarily Trescothicks decision, and having looked at the committee of 5 that were clearly discussing whether to take it or not and they decided not to, I imagine that they who were actually on the pitch know a little more about the effectiveness than you do.