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England Cricket Tour of New Zealand, 2017/18 (with no cricket in 2017)

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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    The biggest outrage in that game was the MOTM decision. Morkel?! Elgar plays one of the better Test innings of recent years and you give it to Morkel? Sentiment getting in the way there
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,849
    Should have been the cameraman
  • Leuth said:

    The biggest outrage in that game was the MOTM decision. Morkel?! Elgar plays one of the better Test innings of recent years and you give it to Morkel? Sentiment getting in the way there

    Close call but Morkel took 9-110 in the game, that’s greatbowling.

    Elgar is unlucky though as he carried his bat against a top bowling attack.

    Main thing is that they nailed the cheating convicts.

  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651

    What seams so bad to me in this instance is that it was not the action of an individual.
    It would appear the whole team agreed to it.
    I would like to believe that someone would have said something to stop it happening but apparently not.

    Has there ever been a more appropriate spelling mistake on Charlton Life?
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,625
    Back to England's match v NZ (that is the title of the thread, right ?).........

    Just lost Malan. 142-4. Another batsman just hanging is bat out looking for the edge.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Shocking passage of play from Bairstow. He hits a rank long hop from the underutilized leggie Astle straight to mid-on and is dropped and so next over from Astle he hits another one to mid-wicket where Williamson holds on. We are supposed to be trying to save the game aren't we?
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    England 291/6
    78 behind
    Stokes 62 not out
    Woakes 37 not out
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    Approx 35 overs left
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  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    29 overs remaining
    292/6
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    BBC saying 29 left but don’t think they’ve had dinner
    So surely minimum 2 hours play or minimum 29 overs
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    edited March 2018
    Stokes in last overs play before dinner pony shot lifting one to backward point chasing a short one outside off stump last over before dinner ...aaaaaaah
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    300-7
    Stokes out for 66
    Woakes 38 not out
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    Sky saying 30 /31 overs left
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167

    Sky saying 30 /31 overs left

    Far too many for us.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    It doesn't matter whether it's 29, 30 or 31 overs left. I just think we've left it too late to force a win in this match.

    So frustrating.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    What is going on in the background here? Looks like disgruntled Gooner in captain's cap being led out by two jacketed security guys.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    We lost three wickets off the final ball of three different sessions.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167

    We lost three wickets off the final ball of three different sessions.

    And we'll lose one at the end of this session too!
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  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Woakes out.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    edited March 2018
    How is it that Wagner is allowed to bowl 4 or 5 bouncers an over? Is it because he only bowls at 70mph?
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    All over and for the 4th session running England lose a wicket off the last ball....
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    England's Test side totally outplayed yet again.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Riviera said:

    How is it that Wagner is allowed to bowl 4 or 5 bouncers an over? Is it because he only bowls at 70mph?

    I was thinking that but I assume that some, especially the ones that are in the waist to chest area, are just regarded as short of a length balls as opposed to bouncers.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Obviously we lost this with our pitiful first innings performance. But the fact that so many players got in during the 2nd innings and failed to convert says as much.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Usual drivel from Swann on TMS "I think England have done well to take the game as far as they did..." It effin rained for two days!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    How refreshing to play a side who want to play good tough cricket but within the boundaries of the game. And to hear a captain so modest about his own contribution not just with the bat but the decision to bowl first.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167

    How refreshing to play a side who want to play good tough cricket but within the boundaries of the game. And to hear a captain so modest about his own contribution not just with the bat but the decision to bowl first.

    That's why they've only beaten us 10 times in 88 years.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Riviera said:

    How refreshing to play a side who want to play good tough cricket but within the boundaries of the game. And to hear a captain so modest about his own contribution not just with the bat but the decision to bowl first.

    That's why they've only beaten us 10 times in 88 years.
    Only as good as your last Test.