Talk me through this.
Pink Ball cricket is supposed to be wonky to bat against during the “twilight zone”?
And yet NZ have doubled our score near as dammit for the loss of 2 wickets during this period…
And we batted (sorry swiped) while the Sun was shining.
All the pre-series Press Statements from Root and Co make the Saints media team in the MoPe era look accurate and informative.
Jet lag…they’re jet lagged. Playing and missing in a different time zone.
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I turned on the TV at 06:00 this morning and saw that NZ were 92-2, thought we were doing well.
Didn’t realise until MUCH later that we’d actually batted first.
5th team to be bowled out in the first session…
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Yay! It’ pissing down. Granty has retired to his hotel with NZ 177 ahead & 4 wickets down
3 more days of this will be perfect
If the weather keeps up we may come out of this with a draw
Even a moral victory as we were able to sneak favourable British weather into New Zealand without them realising until it was too late.
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Maybe we should delete the”Deb” from the thread title
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327 behind
Cook doesn’t move his feet
6-1
Go back to bed…
NZ set up a trap. Bowl short at Stonemen.
He top edges a shaky pull for 6 to bring up his 50.
Next ball pulls it straight to long leg.
FFS what happened to batting TIME?
Why the hell is a Test Batsman playing that sort of risky shot in a situation where you have to occupy the crease. Just fvcking duck/dodge/weave you idiot
115-2
Just hope 5 NZ bowlers get caught ball tampering.
Root going well but I bet he gets a bouncer on the fingers a couple of balls before the end of the innings and gets out next ball.
That would just be our luck .
Stokes put in some effort but…
It was inevitable after the Kiwis fixed the weather.
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Same as Root last night - could have retired hurt after being rapped on the knuckles. Plays on, gets out next ball.
Some not very intelligent batting all round tbh
JUST GO BACK TO BED.
FFS
Barstow & Wood have a total of 100 runs between them.
About the same as everyone else