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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 11262
    Excellent start to the summer's cricket. Some great performances, some good performances, and a couple of rusty 'uns that will hopefully get some metaphorical WD40.

    Not sure about this Bayliss bloke as coach. I mean, since when did inventing the wind-up radio qualify you as a cricket coach? :)
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  • TeetonetalTeetonetal Frets: 7801
    Well done England, some fine individual performances and a fine team performance.. encouraging. If they keep sticking to it like this, then the Kevin question becomes irrelevant.. keep him out by being too good to get dropped.


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  • NeilNeil Frets: 3594
    Very exciting yesterday.

    Stokesy was wonderful.

    Glad to see Cook doing well at last with the dependable Root but what has happened to Bell lately?
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  • jpttaylorjpttaylor Frets: 458
    Fantastic day of cricket yesterday. Great to see Cook, Root and Stokes all playing with confidence and freedom.

    It's interesting for Strauss to choose Trevor Bayliss as the new head coach when Gillespie was probably the favourite and a more immediately obvious choice. Hopefully this shows the ECB have a clear vision of where to go across all formats rather than just because of Bayliss' ODI success. Maybe it also shows how highly they rate Paul Farbrace as an asset to the test sides, even if it is only as a number two.
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  • HeartfeltdawnHeartfeltdawn Frets: 22096
    jpttaylor said:
    It's interesting for Strauss to choose Trevor Bayliss as the new head coach when Gillespie was probably the favourite and a more immediately obvious choice. Hopefully this shows the ECB have a clear vision of where to go across all formats rather than just because of Bayliss' ODI success. Maybe it also shows how highly they rate Paul Farbrace as an asset to the test sides, even if it is only as a number two.
    The team performance showed how they rate Paul Farbrace. The England balcony at Lords looked very at ease even when they were under the cosh at times. I'm well happy about Bayliss coming over. 




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  • GassageGassage Frets: 30826
    At the T20 @ Lords tomorrow.


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  • lloydlloyd Frets: 5773
    edited May 2015
    Jesus, terrible (non) shot from Taylor, nice ball from Broad LBW NZ 68/3

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  • HeartfeltdawnHeartfeltdawn Frets: 22096
    B-Mac's is worse. That's as brainless as anything that's come out of the West Indian Book of Fuckwit Dismissals over the last two years. 



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  • lloydlloyd Frets: 5773
    Solid start today by the openers

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  • jpttaylorjpttaylor Frets: 458
    edited May 2015
    Agreed. Boult and Southee have been bowling well today. There's something in this pitch for the bowlers, hence patience from Lyth and Cook.

    Great for Lyth to get a half century under his belt and a fine record for Cook to break as well.
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  • lloydlloyd Frets: 5773
    Patience from Cook is shown on any type pitch!

    He's going to be holding that record for a while I think, plenty more to come from him too.

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  • HeartfeltdawnHeartfeltdawn Frets: 22096
    jpttaylor said:
    Agreed. Boult and Southee have been bowling well today. There's something in this pitch for the bowles, hence patience from Lyth and Cook.

    Great for Lyth to get a half century under his belt and a fine record for Cook to break as well.
    Irritating the number of people on Twitter saying England are going too slowly and asking why they're not scoring like NZ did. They don't need to do so. Make a platform, wear the opposition down, cash in whilst the weather is good (forecast is poor for Sunday). The Twittidiots don't seem to realise that you've got two sides playing different games. NZ need to win. England can bat for three days as far as I'm concerned. Cook's renaissance continues and Lyth has been bedded in well and now know he will be playing in his first Ashes series. 





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  • jpttaylorjpttaylor Frets: 458
    Given how easily our openers have given away their wickets in the past few series (I dare say years) I don't have a problem with Cook and Lyth playing it safe at all. England have been struggling to find an opening partnership for ages and they need time to work with each other. Early days yet but they seem to be on the same wavelength for the most part.

    Keeping the runs ticking over and not playing any silly shots, England are edging closer to being unable to lose this test. They probably won't play tomorrow and a series win overall will hopefully set them up well for the Ashes. This side could do with the confidence that comes with a result against good quality opposition.

    NZ will win a lot of the plaudits and it's nice to see a side playing bold, aggressive cricket, but it won't necessarily win them the series. They blew the first test trying to do it and they've been chasing England since. That balance between positive play and grinding out results is a tough balancing act.
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  • HeartfeltdawnHeartfeltdawn Frets: 22096
    jpttaylor said:

    NZ will win a lot of the plaudits and it's nice to see a side playing bold, aggressive cricket, but it won't necessarily win them the series. They blew the first test trying to do it and they've been chasing England since. That balance between positive play and grinding out results is a tough balancing act.
    This is why I scoff at the plaudits being dished out about New Zealand under Brendon McCullum. His Win-Loss-Draw record is no better than Cook's. As captain he's had series wins against West Indies, Sri Lanka, and India at home (all three sides are lousy tourists), a draw in the UAE against Pakistan, and a sole overseas series win against the West Indies. Nothing up to the level of Cook winning as captain in India and Australia. NZ haven't won against the top three (Australia, South Africa, England) in that time. They got stuffed in South Africa, lost the 2013 series in England, will not win this current series, and haven't played Australia for a while. 

    Bold aggressive cricket won't win you a series. It can win you a session and it can win you a Test but not a series. 

    Another great day of play. Like Lords, the weather had a major say. Easy for England early on then the new ball with cloud cover caused some problems. Bad forecast for Sunday so we could have two intriguing days Monday and Tuesday. 



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  • NZ bowled well without luck early on. 350 was 50 too many to concede but with butler, bell and Ali we should still get a lead which we will need.
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  • jpttaylorjpttaylor Frets: 458
    And from what was a really promising position, England have collapsed. So many cheap wickets gone with not nearly enough runs added to the score. NZ have bowled well, credit where it's due, but the middle order has disappeared by playing totally unnecessary shots. 

    Funnily enough I reckon those that were criticising the run rate with Lyth and Cook are oddly quiet at the moment.
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  • rocktronrocktron Frets: 806
    The unelected bureaucrats at the EU are to ban bouncers on Health & Safety grounds. LOL
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  • crunchmancrunchman Frets: 11413
    Have we got anyone who can bowl consistently at 90mph, or spin it and consistently land it on a length?
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 11262
    Holy shit, their tailenders are carting our bowlers all over the place. It's carnage.

    Looking at the pitch map on Sky they seem to have decided not to try and bowl full and straight for a couple of balls to see if it works. That's bad captaincy.

    The Aussies musy be quaking in their boots.
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  • lloydlloyd Frets: 5773
    NZ declare at 454-8. Big job for England to chase that down. Fingers crossed for rain or Cook to bat for 2 days....

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