England tour of New Zealand 2023

[Keshan]

(02-17-2023, 11:28 AM)nuffa Wrote:  Seems like the NZ lower order has given a good fight.

This game is also going on a rapid pace. Starting to think that 4 day test are a good possibility looking at the test matches of recent times.

All the pace here is set by England though.

Sometime in the future though 4 day tests with maybe 100 overs per day would happen. But then ICC need to figure out the handling of bad light first.

Hope 5 days survive as long as possible though

[Keshan]

Blundell played a gem today. He's in some purple patch atm. What a replacement for Watling!

Blundell also came into the side with a reputation for scoring really quick runs but now has adjusted his game beautifully.

Also NightHawk has answered the call and left a message:

"NightHawk deployed at #4 in the dark. I do answer to MorningHawk in normal Test Match hours but AfternoonHawk doesn't sound right, so I'll respond to just Hawk until the light drops again"

[slcricfan1]

Brook is so great. Has looked so good across formats

[pj57]

Brook gets 18 runs off Wagner over and Wagner going at nearly 10 runs an over, 104 runs off 11 overs.

[pj57]

Brook must be thinking, test cricket is so easy, averaging 80 after 6 test innings.....3 hundreds and a fifty.

[slcricfan1]

Fear Wagner is done. At least he reached 250 wickets

[slcricfan1]

The kiwi crowd is rather sizeable.

I dont know what the play here is. Poms dont have enough runs and not that many wickets left.

[pj57]

England now have a very good lead of 380 with a wicket in hand. NZ will have to fight hard, an almost impossible task of having to bat out 2 days and bit more to save this test.

[pj57]

NZ already in trouble chasing 394 with Broad on fire claiming all 3 wickets to fall so far, all three clean bowled as well.

[slcricfan1]

Mitchell has such a lovely pull shot