1st Test: England v New Zealand @ Lords Jun 2-6, 2022

[TheParraboy]

3 test series here commences Thursday (I did say 3)

Kick off 8pm

Kiwis got slaughtered by 7 wkts in a warm up match agasint FC counties XI

 

[Twizzle]

I think the new pommie coach may have an insight into the Kiwi's game

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Kiwi coach, kiwi captain. This could be the nicest series in history.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Starts tonight.

One of the great top orders for England with Lees, Crawley and Pope 21, 28 and 28 respectively.

Some guy called Potsy is their new pace bowler and will bat at 8 making it the longest tail in history. He joins 67 year old Anderson and 64 year old Broad. The great Jack Leach rounds out a stellar attack.

Kiwis by an innings and 4.050 runs.

 

[TheParraboy]

Nice guys won the toss and elected to bat

England:
1 Alex Lees, 2 Zak Crawley, 3 Ollie Pope, 4 Joe Root, 5 Jonny Bairstow, 6 Ben Stokes (capt), 7 Ben Foakes (wk), 8 Matthew Potts, 9 Jack Leach, 10 Stuart Broad, 11 James Anderson.

New Zealand:
1 Tom Latham, 2 Will Young, 3 Kane Williamson (capt), 4 Devon Conway, 5 Daryl Mitchell, 6 Tom Blundell (wk), 7 Colin de Grandhomme, 8 Kyle Jamieson, 9 Tim Southee, 10 Ajaz Patel, 11 Trent Boult.

 

[edabomb]

Latham might make it to 100 tests with one hundred vs the big three and SA. It's in play. Hopeless against quality fast bowling.

 

[TheParraboy]

Kiwis 3/8
8 overs

 

[AlwaysGreen]

4/12.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

5/27, Old man Anderson with 2, Potsy with 2.

 

[Bazal]

NZ are being very gentlemanly in letting England win at home in front of all their mates

 

[Bazal]

Well left son...

The best part was he pulled the bat away late...like, after he saw the ball come back?

 

[AlwaysGreen]

6/37, Potsy doing a Scottsy Boland

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Bald unco Jack Leach out of the test with concussion

 

[TheParraboy]

Nice Warne tribute after 23 overs

 

[mozza91]

Do New Zealand think they’re playing against us or something?

 

[Incorrect]

Nice Warne tribute after 23 overs

Nice of NZ to bat long enough to get to the 23rd over....

 

[JJ]

Terrible batting, guess no preparation is an excuse of sorts

even at the end of the day, though, surely we can’t be that awful again?

 

[Eelectrica]

If this coaching thing works out for Levers McCullum, we could have Levers Marsh as coach one day.

 

[Bazal]

If this coaching thing works out for Levers McCullum, we could have Levers Marsh as coach one day.

I dunno man. McCollins has cricketing pedigree. He invented Twenty20 cricket after all

Marsh only invented bison

 

[Bazal]

Gotta say, from what I watched last night it didn't seem like it should be a 17 wicket day. But here we are.

I mean it obviously wasn't easy with the stick but it looked like two very skinny batting lineups more than a demonic deck