Black Caps tour of England 2022

[booboo]

Fuck. Not in bed early enough. Fuck this shit. See youse all in the morning.

[Donsteppa]

England were going to bat first too. With the way the duke ball is hooping around, it might have been a good toss to lose.

[canefan]

What the fuck is Malfoy doing, going all Daniel-san with the headband?

[Donsteppa]

Latham doing his usual trick of not fronting with the bat unless we're playing a minnow.

[canefan]

2 down now. We will be out of the test on the first day. Not even an hour into the test and all our fortunes rest with Kane and Conway

[Canes4life]

@canefan a timely Conway 200 would be quite nice right now.

[Donsteppa]

It was comical that England didn't take at least one of Broad or Anderson to the West Indies. Unfortunately Key, McCullum, and Stokes aren't that foolish.

[canefan]

Conway gone. A quick look down the order, and that is as weak a lineup as I can remember for many a year

[Victor Meldrew]

@Victor-Meldrew said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:

I might just watch this series. Haven't been into cricket for some time (there was just way too much of it for me) but this series could be a good follow.

7-3.

The Curse of the Meldrew's strikes again

[Donsteppa]

Conway learnt little from watching Latham and Young's dismissals.

[booboo]

Can we get to 26?

[booboo]

BTW I'm not watching

[sparky]

Opps, not a great start for the BCs. Odd decision to bat first. There's been loads of rain around London in the last week.

Stokes and McCullum will be the happiest Kiwis at Lords at the minute.

[KiwiMurph]

I'm glad we stuck with Stead.....

[Donsteppa]

@Donsteppa said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:

The Black Caps batting coach(es) and psychologists don't seem to do much these days - except possibly watching from the stands with a few beers.

Similar to the home summer, in the two warm-up games the Black Caps top order fronted in one game, and then spent the other game metaphorically in the pub. Kane spent much of the IPL batting like it was a test match series, but unfortunately his form didn't carry through.

At one stage we were 9/5, and then 19/6 against a county team. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/new-zealand-in-england-2022-1276891/first-class-counties-xi-vs-new-zealanders-tour-match-1311520/full-scorecard

Blundell with match scores of 8 & 0.

... Doesn't matter whether Wags plays or not when the top order bat with little intelligence and even less fortitude...

[sparky]

Ouch. 12-4.

[Kruse]

@sparky said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:

Ouch. 12-4.

Oh - fuck off.
I was considering signing up for a Spark Sport 7-day free trial tomorrow, to give the grandfather some cricket to watch "on-demand" tomorrow.
Fucked if I'm going to show him this... it'd be guaranteed heart attack; worse than turning up covid-ridden.
Edit: and, in case I'm to blame, off to bed with me. Fucking 12/4 bullshit.

[Donsteppa]

@KiwiMurph said in Black Caps tour of England 2022:

I'm glad we stuck with Stead.....

At this rate NZC might give us Bob Carter with all his learnings from coaching the White Ferns...

[Bones]

Maybe not even the rain forecast for the whole jubilee weekend will save us...

[Paekakboyz]

How much were those tickets again!

Hope there is some spice left when we get a bowl.