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  • arny23394
    arny23394 Posts: 1,437
    golfaddick said:
    Winning the toss has given NZ a big advantage. Wicket will deteriorate so batting last could be a problem. Also bowling first in almost 40° heat will not be fun. 


    I agree with the first bit, but it’s not going to get anywhere near 40 degrees in Nottingham. 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 24,452
    arny23394 said:
    golfaddick said:
    Winning the toss has given NZ a big advantage. Wicket will deteriorate so batting last could be a problem. Also bowling first in almost 40° heat will not be fun. 


    I agree with the first bit, but it’s not going to get anywhere near 40 degrees in Nottingham. 
    I agree. 
    Still a good toss to win though in this heat.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,013
    arny23394 said:
    golfaddick said:
    Winning the toss has given NZ a big advantage. Wicket will deteriorate so batting last could be a problem. Also bowling first in almost 40° heat will not be fun. 


    I agree with the first bit, but it’s not going to get anywhere near 40 degrees in Nottingham. 
    Remember the temperatures that are declared are in the shade. Out in the middle I would expect them to be higher than the 35 or 36 that might be said for Nottingham today.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    fenaddick said:
    Matt Henry and Glenn Phillips now ruled out for NZ as well as Jamieson
    And of course Williamson retired following the First Test
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 7,638
    This really is a nightmare toss to lose
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,084
    Pelling1993 said:
    This really is a nightmare toss to lose
    Especially if you haven't picked Rehan Ahmed
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 7,638
    Bashir has started reasonably well
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 24,084
    Leuth said:
    Pelling1993 said:
    This really is a nightmare toss to lose
    Especially if you haven't picked Rehan Ahmed
    Although given the conditions, that's as well as Bashir, not instead of 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,816
    golfaddick said:
    Winning the toss has given NZ a big advantage. Wicket will deteriorate so batting last could be a problem. Also bowling first in almost 40° heat will not be fun. 


    Bold to assume we are not following on
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,013
    I think we are only bowling Bashir so that we get the over rate up. ECB probably had enough of the point deductions for the Test Championship 

    Still wont get 30 overs in but likely to be 28.....so a lot better than normal. 

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    MrOneLung said:
    golfaddick said:
    Winning the toss has given NZ a big advantage. Wicket will deteriorate so batting last could be a problem. Also bowling first in almost 40° heat will not be fun. 


    Bold to assume we are not following on
    Better for NZ to have Santner bowling on the final (and third) day than the second day!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    We've been going through the motions here.

    What might Australia and NZ start doing in this situation? For a start, they would ensure that their bowlers are bowling a consistent line and length and no width. And then they might just get Carey or Blundell to stand up and exert a bit of pressure albeit by dropping the pace down to say 80mph in doing so. Smith has to be up to doing that though.  
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,013
    Run fest at the moment. Thing is, can England do the same when they get chance to bat (which looks like late tomorrow). 
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,429
    I'm probably wrong, but I just have a nagging feeling Stokes will resign as captain after this test/series.

    I hope I'm wrong as there really is nobody to replace him
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    In the same way as Matt Henry was educated in the art of bowling at Kent, Tom Latham learnt all there is to know about batting at the county.
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 7,638
    The BBC really sticking the knife in with the missed LBW. Real time that looked like he squeezed it against his pad and very difficult to spot that it was pad first.
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,734
    NZ 208~0

    Lytham 105*
    Conway 93*

    52 overs.
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 7,638
    Really looking forward to us being 230 all out on this!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    223-0 (56)

    Latham 110* (164)
    Conway 103* (175)
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 19,486
    Even the comms on TMS sound quite bored 

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  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 19,006
    We're in danger of dropping to 5th in the World Test rankings after this game. Maybe we can play the Seychelles in a Hundred game, so we can be World Number 1 at that.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,013
    I fail to believe that Bashir is the BEST spinner we have. If he is, then God help us !
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,013
    And you know that after they declare having made 600+  we will have 1 bad session & get reduced to 150/5 and the match will be done.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    Addick Addict said:
    We've been going through the motions here.

    What might Australia and NZ start doing in this situation? For a start, they would ensure that their bowlers are bowling a consistent line and length and no width. And then they might just get Carey or Blundell to stand up and exert a bit of pressure albeit by dropping the pace down to say 80mph in doing so. Smith has to be up to doing that though.  
    Two hours later and with the ball more than 60 overs old, we still haven't tried it

    257-0 
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 8,014
    Future of test cricket looks really bleak. 

    Admittedly, I don’t know a lot about players coming through in county cricket, but we’re currently a poor side.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,013
    We are useless. Just give them the match & everyone can go home.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,240
    edited 3:52PM
    Smith badly drops one. 

    Keeping on baking hot days like this separates the hardened full time keeper from the part timer.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 14,203
    Laddick01 said:
    Future of test cricket looks really bleak. 

    Admittedly, I don’t know a lot about players coming through in county cricket, but we’re currently a poor side.
    Thought you were gonna make a point about global warming. As we will have to get used to days like these more often. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,355
    golfaddick said:
    I fail to believe that Bashir is the BEST spinner we have. If he is, then God help us !
    The England management, in picking him for the duration of the two years leading up to the Ashes, were "pot committed" to selecting him for that tour. The realisation that he wasn't ready because he'd been playing next to zero cricket anywhere hit them and they were forced to leave him out of the actual team. He's centrally contracted, been their so called "number one" and having not bowled him for a year, they had to now play him in order to justify that contract and assertion.
  • Steven81
    Steven81 Posts: 1,462
    Tbh a big hammering might finally force them to get rid of those two arrogant plebs key and mccullum but very doubtful.

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