England v NZ

[carey]

NZ win the toss and bowl. Looks a fair start, Eng 2/20 odd.

Lyth and Ballance gone for 7 and 1. Reckon KP would've had them both covered.

[heater31]

The Yorkshire First XI are 3/29

Captain Cook is in a bit of shit here

[carey]

The Yorkshire First XI are 3/29

Captain Cook is in a bit of shit here

Agreed. 4 down now.

[RustyCage]

KP would be sitting back and laughing

[carey]

KP would be sitting back and laughing

So he should be, This English side and board are a joke. It's almost SACA like.

[RustyCage]

KP would be sitting back and laughing

So he should be, This English side and board are a joke. It's almost SACA like.

That's the biggest sledge you could heap on the Poms

[Brodlach]

Great nut that Bell got

[carey]

Great nut that Bell got

The commenters banged on about it but was it really? Obvisouly a good line and length (Hitting the top of off) but, Bell played all around it.

[Jim05]

KP would be sitting back and laughing

So he should be, This English side and board are a joke. It's almost SACA like.

They are a joke but reckon they got it right with KP. What he did was unforgiveable

[carey]

Looking at that line up they need KP in it.

[wristwatcher]

Stokes Stokes likes Blokes is hitting them to all parts

[batmanbegins]

I do have a chuckle for all the people want KP back, the guy texted an opposition ways to get out his captain and also wrote a book slamming all of his team mates. Now I dont like strauss and Cook a huge amount but it's time to move on from the KP era and you know what for as much as everyone is bagging english cricket at the minute there is actually some great talent coming through the batting ranks. Root just keeps getting better and better and hes only 24 (averaged over 90 in the past year), Ballance has been averaging over 50 since his debut, I love Stokes and Butler with the way they take on the game and Ali is a quality number 8 batsman. Bell is a fine player, obviously Lyth we still dont know about yet and Cook must make runs against the Aussies or hes in trouble. Why should we drop talented young players that are making runs in the middle order for a bloke that in his past few years in test cricket didnt make many runs (His average dropped a few runs and he barely made a ton)?
We will struggle to take 20 wickets in the Ashes as we rely to much on Anderson unless Broad steps up but hes been awful of late, However our batting is exciting and I'm keen to see how they go against the best in Johnson, Harris and Co. In test cricket we have some promising youngsters, in One dayers we are truly awful and a mile behind the pack.

[heater31]

Never should have got rid of KP in the first instance.....now have had to take some short term pain (and possibly an Ashes series loss) for long term gain.

[The Dark Knight]

England 7/354 at stumps.

Great start by NZ but England good enough to fight back and are now in a really strong position. Didn't see any play but Ballance a other low score against a decent attack lol!! Will continue to get found out to class bowling.

England have a decent lower order with Root, Stokes, Buttler and Ali. All very capable of scoring very quickly.

[heater31]

England 7/354 at stumps.

Great start by NZ but England good enough to fight back and are now in a really strong position. Didn't see any play but Ballance a other low score against a decent attack lol!! Will continue to get found out to class bowling.

England have a decent lower order with Root, Stokes, Buttler and Ali. All very capable of scoring very quickly.

Can't believe Moeen Ali is at 8. Bats at 3 for his County side

[Jim05]

England 7/354 at stumps.

Great start by NZ but England good enough to fight back and are now in a really strong position. Didn't see any play but Ballance a other low score against a decent attack lol!! Will continue to get found out to class bowling.

England have a decent lower order with Root, Stokes, Buttler and Ali. All very capable of scoring very quickly.

Can't believe Moeen Ali is at 8. Bats at 3 for his County side

That says more about how shite county standard is rather than how good Ali is.

[Lightning McQueen]

I do have a chuckle for all the people want KP back, the guy texted an opposition ways to get out his captain and also wrote a book slamming all of his team mates. Now I dont like strauss and Cook a huge amount but it's time to move on from the KP era and you know what for as much as everyone is bagging english cricket at the minute there is actually some great talent coming through the batting ranks. Root just keeps getting better and better and hes only 24 (averaged over 90 in the past year), Ballance has been averaging over 50 since his debut, I love Stokes and Butler with the way they take on the game and Ali is a quality number 8 batsman. Bell is a fine player, obviously Lyth we still dont know about yet and Cook must make runs against the Aussies or hes in trouble. Why should we drop talented young players that are making runs in the middle order for a bloke that in his past few years in test cricket didnt make many runs (His average dropped a few runs and he barely made a ton)?
We will struggle to take 20 wickets in the Ashes as we rely to much on Anderson unless Broad steps up but hes been awful of late, However our batting is exciting and I'm keen to see how they go against the best in Johnson, Harris and Co. In test cricket we have some promising youngsters, in One dayers we are truly awful and a mile behind the pack.

Not sure that I'd like to watch Butler Root Cook.

[MJ_23]

^ Haha very nice.

[MJ_23]

Root is an incredibly talented batsman, His form has been super the last 12 months.

He was excellent again last night. I think 8 is too low for Ali to bat personally.

[jackpot jim]

Eng 389
NZ 5/448 including an incredible 63 sundries atm with 22 byes, 34 leg byes, 6 wides and the solitary no ball which was only signaled after checking after a wicket. lol
Poms cant take a trick, struggling to take wickets despite the ball swinging, seaming and bouncing all over the place.