Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final

[sparky]

They are back on. 22-0 after 15 overs. Heavy going.

[rotated]

If you offered a 30 run opening stand but 18 overs off the new ball your probably have taken it at the start of the innings.

The runs are starting to trickle a little more freer now.

[sparky]

31-0. Lots of Kiwi grit from Latham and Conway.

[sparky]

Latham puts one in the air but just wide of the fielder. 32-0

[sparky]

Tea. 36-0. NZ's session. Still 180 runs behind.

[rotated]

This session is pretty simple, if Kane's wicket is still intact at the end of the day then we will be in the box seat.

[sparky]

Conway hits one for 4. 50-0. I keep thinking about Edmund Hillary and that mountain.

[Billy Tell]

Did anyone see the article in the Times from S Jones about how India were making NZ look good?

[sparky]

@billy-tell said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

Did anyone see the article in the Times from S Jones about how India were making NZ look good?

He's stuck behind The Times paywall, so no. But did it go like this?

[sparky]

70-0. Drinks.

[rotated]

Latham gone. Game on.

Well done by Tommy there one of the best 30s he will make in his career.

[sparky]

Latham out second ball after drinks. 70-1. Loose shot off Ashwin. Good catch by Kohli.

[rotated]

The way this pitch is playing I'd almost like to see BJ out there if we need a pseudo night watchman in the final 30 minutes.

[sparky]

Conway makes his 50. Gutsy.

[sparky]

101-1.

[rotated]

Dammit Conway goes softly.

[sparky]

Conway flicks it to mid on. Soft wicket after all that hard work to get to 54 in very tricky conditions. And they are going off for bad light.

Stumps. 101-2. NZ's day but Conway's dismissal slightly takes the edge off it.

3 days to go. Lots of rain tomorrow. All three results possible but draw looks most likely IMHO.

[MajorPom]

@sparky said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

Conway flicks it to mid on. Soft wicket after all that hard work to get to 54 in very tricky conditions. And they are going off for bad light.

Stumps. 101-2. NZ's day but Conway's dismissal slightly takes the edge off it.

3 days to go. Lots of rain tomorrow. All three results possible but draw looks most likely IMHO.

Yeah, agreed. Frustrating as all hell, after 3 weeks of great weather, to get a week of dogshit and the long range forecast, excellent again for month after this week. Sods law.

If there's two days play left (I think there is), then I think we have a chance. It's tough going out there, but we've GOT To get a lead. A lead of 50/60 will be fantastic in these conditions, just as a shortfall of 50 will push things heavily in India's favour.

The most frustrating thing though throughout has been the comm's. It's basically been Indian coverage with a bit of Doull. And all of the talk of great test matches over the years have ALL been about India, Australia and England. I think the commentators would regularly go for 30 odd minutes without even really mentioning New Zealand. I killed the TV after Ashwin started and one of the comm's said "Conway will have never faced a bowler as good as Ashwin".

Ok dickhead, he's face all NZ Bowlers I'm sure, as well as Broad, Anderson etc ... but yeah, he's never faced a decent bowler.

Morons.

[shark]

Yeah the comms are annoying as fuck. Kaneria and even Sangakkara are awful fan-boys.

If we lose more time due to rain, in theory they can add extra overs to the remaining days but the light is so bad that's probably not possible anyway.

[Cyclops]

Is this all some kind of coma dream? Jamieson is almost comical at this point, and now Conway is doing a batting impression of him.

A lot of game still to go and plenty of chances for India to pull it back but I'd rather be in our shoes than there's right now.

A mate predicted that they'd get about 240 and I thought he was dreaming.