Black Caps v England Test series

Snowy

@cyclops said in Black Caps v England Test series:

As a black caps fan I've done my share of rain dances, but a light dance is a new one.

Have considered this over Craps matches before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

Actually quite pleased now that the cricket people didn't realise that daylight saving is an hour, not 30 mins.

Bones

So what's left to face, worst case? Things to watch out for? Surely it's not that beyond comprehension...

Hooroo

Right! Piece of piss!! 191 off 39 overs.

Get amongst it lads!

Snowy

@bones said in Black Caps v England Test series:

So what's left to face, worst case? Things to watch out for? Surely it's not that beyond comprehension...

Worst case is 2 very experienced new ball bowlers with 900 wickets between them with a shiny ball under cloud cover creating swing in poor light against a fragile Craps tail.

We can dare to hope.

Bones

@snowy since when is the craps tail fragile? Have we got our top order batsmen there now?

Snowy

@bones Fair call. They often show more fight than the top order.
We could probably reverse the order and be no worse off.

Chris B.

@virgil said in Black Caps v England Test series:

Reports Southee isn’t well either..

I'd be disappointed if several of the top order weren't also feeling unwell. Now that Joe Parker is unemployed he could be given the job of boxing a few ears!

Chris B.

Clear blue sky overhead at present - might have to bat at least 30 overs here!

Donsteppa

Sodhi has lasted more deliveries than Williamson, Taylor, and Nicholls combined.

No Quarter

Great to see the lower ordering putting up a fight again - if we pull this out of the fire it'll be some effort considering the top order failings this test. Hard to see them surviving the new ball though.

Chris B.

@donsteppa I've survived as many deliveries as Kane!!!

Chris B.

So by my calculation Broad has bowled just 11 overs today, but Anderson has bowled 17. He's surely not going to be bowling a long fiery spell!

Cyclops

Cricinfo just linked to Danny Morrisons last test. I'd forgotten about that one. What a rear guard it was, almost 3 hours at the crease. I can only imagine how gut wrenching it must have been as an England fan (actually, I've experienced 10th wicket stands humiliate the BCs so I'm speaking from experience actually!)

canefan

This is incredibly cruel of the BCs to hang on for hours only to rip put our collective hearts and fail at the end

canefan

Colin you farking nonce

Chris B.

For fuck's sake, Colin! What the hell was the point of that?!!!

KiwiMurph

Haha what an awful dismissal by CDG.

Still - he did well when he was in there unlike a few others.

Donsteppa

@canefan said in Black Caps v England Test series:

Colin you farking nonce

For the talk of 'should have chased', very few of the dismissals seem to have been from a forward defensive shot gone wrong...

No Quarter

CdG goes. The end is nigh.

Damo

Oh dear. At least CDG hung around for a while but that mode of dismissal is not a good look.

The Silver Fern

Black Caps v England Test series