England vs New Zealand - Spoilers

[psmiffy]

Good start - McCullum 6 then Finn removes his stumps

Edit - maybe not so good - brings Williamson to crease

 

[psmiffy]

Kiwis 162 for 4
a mixture of pragmatism coupled with attempt to get it going (Santner bit of a failed experiment) in the face of some reasonable England bowling - be interesting to see how it pans out in the fifty overs

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

 

[yello]

What the f are England doing?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

What the f are England doing?

Panicking.

 

[yello]

Well, they're settling down now but the damage may have been done. They went out playing like they'd only got half the overs, trying to knock everything out of the ground. I like the enthusiasm but that was just daft.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

And just when I thought they were getting back into it another wicket falls.

 

[yello]

Hang on to your whatevers, we're going to the wire!

 

[rich p]

Wowzer Bairstow!

 

[psmiffy]

What the f are England doing?

Winning

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Pah! Over to spare....

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Yorkshire! Yorkshire! Yorkshire!

 

[yello]

Well played Bairstow. Well played England. Excellent match, excellent series. Can we have another please?

 

[nickyboy]

Wonderful innings from Bairstow to dig England out of a big hole. England's mentality is that they've got enough batting to go hard from the top of the batting order and at least a couple will score big. Well today only one scored big but it was enough....just

Wonder how they'll fit him into the side when Buttler comes back?

 

[psmiffy]

Wonder how they'll fit him into the side when Buttler comes back?

Buttler is good enough to play as a batsman in his own right - I did wonder how bad Buttler's injury was and whether they would drop Billings in this game