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1st Test, Lord's : England beat New Zealand by 124 runs

Quite a baptism of fire for Farbrace (who, for those too young to remember, was Middlesex Seconds keeper, and only got a FC game when Downton was on England duty).
 
Only jimmy can stop kiwis no...broad is hopeless ishant sharma type don't know much about wood moen bhai is mediocre to say the least
Aus should back themselves to white wash Eng in England this time
I expect poms to lose all 7 test this summer ...only jimmy and root can stop this from happening...
 
BigBoy123 said:
Only jimmy can stop kiwis no...broad is hopeless ishant sharma type don't know much about wood moen bhai is mediocre to say the least
Aus should back themselves to white wash Eng in England this time
I expect poms to lose all 7 test this summer ...only jimmy and root can stop this from happening...
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Aus test team is not that great to be honest. They have good quicks but their batting is almost as fragile as the English batting if not worse.
 
Boult following JK but he needs to cut down his swing and seam to become JK ...he needs to bowl gun barrel straight
 
England is slowly finding out that hitting the ball every now and again gets you runs.
 
Good counter attack here by england after been in a massive hole, they still are but are showing some fight.
 
Robert said:
That would be India surrendering to ATG spinner Moeen last summer.
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No one's claiming that was a good example of cricket, least of all me. I'm just against this idoitic notion that every random achievement becomes brilliant because it's a Test match.
 
Enough is enough, Poms gonna give it back to hobbits, What a counter attack by poms. Long live test cricket.
 
48 runs in last 44 balls in this partnership, good positive cricket here!
 
Robert said:
Quite a baptism of fire for Farbrace (who, for those too young to remember, was Middlesex Seconds keeper, and only got a FC game when Downton was on England duty).
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Trust me Robert, some of us are watching very attentively.

England's Middlesex supremo sacked the Lancashire coach while overlooking to dismiss his Middlesex assistant coach, who obviously is in no way to blame for losing at home to Sri Lanka, drawing with the West Indies and stuffing up the World Cup.

He then approached his former Middlesex opening partner Justin Langer to take on the coaching vacancy instead of the obvious candidate, Yorkshire's Jason Gillespie.

The old boys' network was half the reason I left - even though I was one of the beneficiaries.

Contrast it with Brendan McCullum, whose upbringing in what the English would consider working class cricket culture in Dunedin is a million miles away from Martin Crowe's privileged childhood in Cornwall Park in Auckland.

Giles Clarke wouldn't let a McCullum captain his team, because "the Cook family are the sort of people" he wants in charge.
 
58 runs in last 10 overs on opening day of test on tough pitch and after being 4 down for nothing, T20 has really ruined test cricket.
 
McCullum really does over-bowl his strike bowlers in every form of the game.

He'd get more out of his quicks if he rotated these three at one end after the first dozen overs and used Anderson and Craig as stock bowlers at the other end.
 
My name is Henry, Matt Henry! Way to go. My favorite NZ fast bowler strikes twice on his debut at Lord's.
 
Junaids said:
McCullum really does over-bowl his strike bowlers in every form of the game.

He'd get more out of his quicks if he rotated these three at one end after the first dozen overs and used Anderson and Craig as stock bowlers at the other end.
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He has over bowled Boult many times in the last few months especially in the WC.
 
Space Cat said:
Was getting all exciting about NZ being on top then i heard Shane Warnes voice enter the commentary box.
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Imagine being an Australian. Listening to Warne, Healy, Brayshaw and Slater and Nicholas every summer.
 
Has this pitch is been replaced by english management during drink brake or just the case of change in approach of english batsman, but such a contrasting outcomes?
 
Stokes is showing why he and not Moeen should be the #6. His counterattack has caused the the Kiwis to abandon their full length and they are trying to blast him out instead.

This is why test cricket is best!
 
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Robert said:
Stokes is showing why he and not Moeen should be the #6. His counterattack has caused the the Kiwis to abandoned their full length and they are trying to blast him out instead.

This is why test cricket is best!
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Stokes faced a lot of issues against short ball last summer. New Zealand might be trying to replicate the tactic..
 
Are people in here really telling McCullum how he should use his bowlers?

Hes been pretty successful with his methods i would say.
 
Good counter attack from England. Joe Root looking in great nick with back to back fours.
 
Joe Root and Lord's.. as good a love story as anything. The guy loves it here
 
Craig takes his wickets at 42 in First class cricket. How come Vettori isn't playing?
 
Helluva menu at Lords. Rather slow session this morning, should've got a few more overs in.

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113-4 at lunch.

Fine Kiwi swing bowling after winning the toss in helpful conditions, with a splendid counterattack from the skipper-in-waiting and the all-rounder. Over a hundred runs in the first session of a test is going some.

This is real cricket, test cricket, a physical, mental and emotional examination. Who's up for it? Who wants it most? Game on.
 
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Root is yet another excellent English batsman who will be ruined by the rigors of captaincy. Hopefully he bucks the trend now.
 
leatherface58 said:
Root is yet another excellent English batsman who will be ruined by the rigors of captaincy. Hopefully he bucks the trend now.
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Somehow feel he's up for it. His attitude is amazing. Will be more successful than Steve Smith.
 
leatherface58 said:
Root is yet another excellent English batsman who will be ruined by the rigors of captaincy. Hopefully he bucks the trend now.
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Probably true. They all seem to lose form and become mentally exhausted, over the last twenty years anyway. Root is the #5 so that might help him with form - unlike Vaughan, Strauss and Cook he won't have to face the new ball.
 
Robert said:
Probably true. They all seem to lose form and become mentally exhausted, over the last twenty years anyway. Root is the #5 so that might help him with form - unlike Vaughan, Strauss and Cook he won't have to face the new ball.
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Do you think Root will continue to play at no.5? I see him as the next opener for England after Cook retires..
 
I was referring to the brilliant bowling in the beginning. And the counter attack by England has been excellent as well. The ball by Matt Henry was when i posted it and Ive not seen too many better balls in recent times. Maybe you should stick to IPL if this is mediocre to you?
 
Sandeep said:
Do you think Root will continue to play at no.5? I see him as the next opener for England after Cook retires..
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Chef's got five years in him yet, and Root the opener got found out a bit by the Aussies. He's got a test match 180 against them but a lot of low scores too. England have been looking for a steady partner for Chef since Strauss finished but Root has stayed, um, rooted at #5 for eleven tests now.

What is happening in the dressing rooms now..... has Mac calmed his bowlers down? Is Chef exhorting his men to continue their counterattack?
 
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CricketAnalyst said:
If this is the best, I'd hate to watch the worst.

Mediocre losers who can't hold a bat getting destroyed by a better team. What's there to see? Batters poking and prodding interminably and getting dismissed nonetheless. Sheer incompetence and nothing more.
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I was referring to the brilliant bowling in the beginning. And the counter attack by England has been excellent as well. The ball by Matt Henry was when i posted it and Ive not seen too many better balls in recent times. Maybe you should stick to IPL if this is mediocre to you?
 
Root, Stokes & Butler ...3 guys holding the England line up together again and again.
 
Eng scored over 4 RPO in the 1st session...good counterattack.
 
Robert said:
Chef's got five years in him yet, and Root the opener got found out a bit by the Aussies. He's got a test match 180 against them but a lot of low scores too. England have been looking for a steady partner for Chef since Strauss finished but Root has stayed, um, rooted at #5 for eleven tests now.

What is happening in the dressing rooms now..... has Mac calmed his bowlers down? Is Chef exhorting his men to continue their counterattack?
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Actually, I don't think that Cook will tour the UAE and South Africa this winter.

I think that he'll be relieved of the captaincy after the Ashes defeat and that he will then take a break from international cricket.
 
Space Cat said:
Are people in here really telling McCullum how he should use his bowlers?

Hes been pretty successful with his methods i would say.
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Yes. I am doing exactly that.

McCullum has not got a particulalry good record of using his bowlers. He overbowls them up front in both Tests and ODIs and their effectiveness diminishes quicker than you'd expect from the ball losing its shine.

And he got out of jail in the World Cup semi-final when it rained. If it hadn't rained De Villiers and Du Plessis would have put together a huge score against the back-up bowlers.
 
Junaids said:
Yes. I am doing exactly that.

McCullum has not got a particulalry good record of using his bowlers. He overbowls them up front in both Tests and ODIs and their effectiveness diminishes quicker than you'd expect from the ball losing its shine.
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What Root&Stokes can do here is clobber the spinner, to put pressure on McCullum to overbowl his three quicker men.
 
Robert said:
What Root&Stokes can do here is clobber the spinner, to put pressure on McCullum to overbowl his three quicker men.
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He already has.

Their lengths have got shorter and shorter the more tired that they have got.

Bowling 11 overs by 2pm in England is absurd. Ridiculous.

McCullum is captaining like he batted in the World Cup Final.

Gambling everything on bowling England out for 150 in 40 overs.

There are still 48 more overs until the second new ball, and Boult, Henry and Southee are out on their feet.

With Moeen and Buttler still to bat, England should be aiming to score another 240 in that time, so the second new ball would arrive at 380-6. Of course it won't happen simply because they haven't got enough wickets left.
 
honeybadger said:
Stokes will undo all his hard work when he comes to bowl.
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As of late he has a knack of breaking partnerships despite being a bit expensive. If he manages to maintain such performances it will be easier to get rid of Mo who is just not ready for an Ashes series. Mo may develop into a descent A/R one day in Tests but he should remain a limited overs specialist for now.
 
Robert said:
What Root&Stokes can do here is clobber the spinner, to put pressure on McCullum to overbowl his three quicker men.
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They can get Williamson on for two or three overs here and there. If Craig is conceding too many runs then I would try Williamson for a little bit before bringing on a fast bowler.
 
Junaids said:
With Moeen and Buttler still to bat, England should be aiming to score another 240 in that time, so the second new ball would arrive at 380-6. Of course it won't happen simply because they haven't got enough wickets left.
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Sure, and Buttler is in no form anyway. So the tail starts in two wickets.
 
Kiwis should have put more faith on Sodhi , he has potential , white is not International standard spinner.
 
The last time I've seen Stokes bat like this was back in Australia during 'that' tour
 
:)) Henry Blofeld getting very excited on commentary.

"This chap is batting like Don Bradman !"

Great stuff from Ben Stokes.
 
Wow, stokes has played some wonderful strokes in last 30 minutes or so, he deserves a hundred here! Hes looked very good, drives well and plays hook shot well, also showing a good tempremant. momentum definatley with england right now.
 
On the evidence so far I'd say it's a shame this is not a 3 test series. I expected it to be quite interesting and it's not disappointed so far. I like how positive BMac is with his field placings. And yes, Matt Henry WAG.
 
Reckless batting! We don't like this sort of batting in Yorkshire. We prefer boring risk free stuff.
 
I think kiwis should maybe given anderson a bowl for an over or two, they need to try something different. There 3 seamers are already been over bowled i think.
 
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