Cricket: NZ vs England

[bayimports]

I only hope it is made to look that flat when we bat again

[Snowy]

Time for your nap @booboo

[Bovidae]

Time to do the rain dance. Tomorrow's forecast.

[Donsteppa]

Through chance I've seen a lot of Wagner, Southee, and Mitchell bowling in this innings, and only heard Henry and Santner bowling on the radio.

Should that stop me from making a snarky comment about the Henry/Ferguson selection?

I fear it's too late for the reverse jinx to be successful for Henry in this game...

[Gunner]

Bang bang, double break through.

Now wrap up the tail quick please.

[Gunner]

@Gunner said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

Bang bang, double break through.

Now wrap up the tail quick please.

BANG BANG BANG, triple break through.

[Siam]

That weather forecast is going to help us. Eng apparently want a go at us today, as the tail free swinging indicates. Stopping singles right now is really important for us.
So when Eng bowl they need to display lots of energy and chirp and make pressure. 3 for 30 odd and it all changes, so their first hour of bowling has to be relentless.

In our substantial favour is that Eng will have to maintain attacking fields so sensible batting will get a steady return of runs. Massively important to run well between wickets in that scenario.

Our restricting them to 2.7 odd an over for most of the innings has been invaluable. Kudos to bowling and fielding plans and all the concentration, execution and awareness that goes with that.

[Snowy]

@Donsteppa said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

Should that stop me from making a snarky comment about the Henry/Ferguson selection?

No.

[Gunner]

So Engerland lose their last 5 wickets for 22 runs.

Need our batsmen to dig in here.

[Snowy]

@Gunner said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

So Engerland lose their last 5 wickets for 22 runs.

Thank you @booboo that worked rather well.

Best that you don't get out of bed until stumps though.

[Snowy]

The Wags legend grows too.

[bayimports]

@Gunner chance for Jeets to just bat time and hopefully find some form with it

[Snowy]

@bayimports said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@Gunner chance for Jeets to just bat time and hopefully find some form with it

Ummm, that whole jinx thing...

[bayimports]

@Snowy ya, not good from a jinx perspective, ..only trying to be positive though

[Donsteppa]

@Snowy said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@bayimports said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

@Gunner chance for Jeets to just bat time and hopefully find some form with it

Ummm, that whole jinx thing...

Raval is a walking wicket either way these days. Shame there's no obvious replacement, as batting with just ten in Australia is less than ideal...

[Gunner]

Jeez, Raval is a waste of space at the moment.

Although Mr Waste of Space would probably feel pretty hard done by being compared to Raval at the moment.

[Snowy]

@Donsteppa True, except he hit it.

[Cyclops]

If ever there was a scenario tailor made for Jeet. Freedom to bat without any kind of time or run rate pressure.

This feels like a black caps collapse coming on. If we're as good as we hope we are we should be able to dig in and calmly bat out the test.

[Snowy]

@Cyclops said in Cricket: NZ vs England:

This feels like a black caps collapse coming on.

Psychologically scarred (we all are) and justifiably nervous.

[Cyclops]

One thing about DRS is that it gives a much better idea of form. No way an in form batsman doesn't instantly review that.

Do we have a warm up before the Perth test to try and get Raval back into nick?