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

England's day by far. Root and Stokes thoroughly demoralised the NZ bowlers and McCullum has bowled henry and Boult to dust here. NZ gonna struggle to draw this test.
 
Lol. Buttler gone on the last ball of the day. Moeen is 49*. Tomorrow will be another great day of cricket.
 
Lack of concentration by Buttler, yet it's weirdly still England's day. Well played.
 
Juansar_07 said:
Root misses out on a Century.98 :facepalm:

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Great work with the .gifs, man. Can't thank you enough.
 
Awesome day 1.

Credit to Moeen for sticking out there, [MENTION=46929]shaz619[/MENTION].
 
Never in any doubt! England were generous and gave the little Hobbits some free wickets just to make things fair!

Heavy defeat incoming for NZ!
 
Could this be England's Karachi 2006 ? 30-4 and then an excellent recovery.

Pitch has got easier to bat on since the morning. Its been a good pitch with a green tinge for the seamers to exploit early on under the overcast conditions, then its been better for the batsmen, plus apparently the pitch is quite dry underneath so the spinners could come into it later on.
 
Robert said:
I wouldn't play him in tests because IMO Stokes is the better test-match all-rounder. They should try to develop the leggie and get Mushtaq back to coach him.

This is a good time to bat - the nicest weather of the day and the Kiwi bowlers tired. 275-6 is riches indeed after 32-4. I though NZ would be batting before tea.
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Agree with you, in the long run this is best for Mo although he played pretty well today in the end after looking awful early on well he does in most of his innings until he gets his eye in.

Why did Mushtaq leave, he formed a formidable team with swann and was producing results for England; the pay in England is better to as are the working conditions compared to Pakistan. I would never have left if I was him. Getting Mushtaq to mentor Rashid is a fantastic idea, England need to think about their overseas tours to but anyway the wickets in England this year will favour spin quiet a bit.
 
Anchorman said:
That ball to Stokes was a beauty.
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It wasn't anything special, stokes made it look really good. It came right at him, You just play those instinctively but stokes seemed to have premeditated a leave
 
shaz619 said:
It wasn't anything special, stokes made it look really good. It came right at him, You just play those instinctively but stokes seemed to have premeditated a leave
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..but the flight..the dip. Reminded me of peak Swann. Man, I miss watching him bowl.
 
Anchorman said:
..but the flight..the dip. Reminded me of peak Swann. Man, I miss watching him bowl.
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I guess he was beaten by flight but he just moved out the way :)) stokes screwed stokes, it was a great ball though but he could have dealt with it. Screw Off Spinners; bare witness the golden age of leg spinners bah gawd! Rashid, Amelia Kerr, Yasir Shah and Sir Tahir. I've been starved of leg spinners so I won't miss offies so much, Swann was great to watch though he hardly had a bad series besides the one in Australia/UAE/india well he never bowled terribly but not to his ability
 
Jarrod Kimber with an accurate summary.

The one thing you expect of a New Zealand team of old was to reign it back in, to settle it down, to bore with medium pace, to restrict with accurate spin. Instead everyone bar Boult went along at four an over, and none ever looked like they were trying to stop runs. And rarely did they look likely to take wickets.

The bowlers did bowl maidens. There were dot balls. But neither were strung together, at no stage did they look life suffocating England. They wanted to bowl them out. They didn't, and went at four an over because of it. McCullum used any opportunity to bring the field up, to bring another slip in, to stop easy scoring. Mark Craig does a lot of things right as a spinner but accuracy and consistency are not really among them. Yet McCullum had all of his men up for one over. That over went for 12.

There were plenty of times Corey Anderson could have been brought on to bowl defensively and slow the scoring. But he wasn't brought on until the last few moments of the old ball. And even then, he bowled around the wicket short balls at Moeen Ali, with a leg gully in. Hardly drying it up.

It was another day of McCullum gambles. He gambled on the toss. Gambled on his bowlers. Gambled on his field. They stormed the fort at his command, but didn't take enough prisoners and ended up in a bloodier battle than they were equipped for.
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CricketAnalyst said:
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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An excellent hour of swing bowling, then a brilliantly audacious batting counterattack, with bowlers wearing themselves out and unable to come back.

England's day.
 
If you put someone in to bat and they score 350 then you have failed. You put someone in and bowl them out cheaply or you have failed.
 
Test Cricket at its best! wish I was there they got their moneys worth on a beautiful day; I've never been to Lords.
 
Junaids said:
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.
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How do I collect my prize?

I predicted 380-6 when it was 113-4!

Seriously, Brendon McCullum has become too big to be brought down a peg or two.

He gambles too much, and many of his punts are risks which always fail in Tests, like wearing out his strike bowlers before lunch on Day One.

Ideally he would have a strong coach who would point out his stupidity to him.

At 30-4 he just needed to bowl Craig and Anderson at one end and to rotate the three quicks in 5 over spells at the other end.
 
McCullum isn't enough of a student of Test cricket to know what to do at 30-4.

You are not going to blast England out for 55.

Think of what Clive Lloyd would have done with his four great quicks at 30-4.

He would bring back Joel Garner and Michael Holding at one end to strangle the run rate while giving Roberts and Marshall short, fiery spells at the other end. Even on a flat deck.

So they would adjust their length - and the field - so that the score would be:

75-5 at lunch
145-7 at tea.

Fools attack too much in Tests. McCullum is one of them.
 
Junaids said:
McCullum isn't enough of a student of Test cricket to know what to do at 30-4.

You are not going to blast England out for 55.

Think of what Clive Lloyd would have done with his four great quicks at 30-4.

He would bring back Joel Garner and Michael Holding at one end to strangle the run rate while giving Roberts and Marshall short, fiery spells at the other end. Even on a flat deck.

So they would adjust their length - and the field - so that the score would be:

75-5 at lunch
145-7 at tea.

Fools attack too much in Tests. McCullum is one of them.
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Perhaps, but his methods have brought much success so far.
 
Junaids said:
McCullum isn't enough of a student of Test cricket to know what to do at 30-4.

You are not going to blast England out for 55.

Think of what Clive Lloyd would have done with his four great quicks at 30-4.

He would bring back Joel Garner and Michael Holding at one end to strangle the run rate while giving Roberts and Marshall short, fiery spells at the other end. Even on a flat deck.

So they would adjust their length - and the field - so that the score would be:

75-5 at lunch
145-7 at tea.

Fools attack too much in Tests. McCullum is one of them.
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Yea, Baz over attacked but he learns quickly. He'll adjust in the next few days.
 
Really think root could be the difference in the ashes, just don't think we have anybody who can handle late swing the way he can so if the matches aren't high scoring his knocks could push england over the top.
 
Random Aussie said:
Perhaps, but his methods have brought much success so far.
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McCullum's captaincy success has come in the short form and in home Tests against rubbish Indian and Sri Lankan bowling attacks.

Michael Clarke can be a very daring captain. But he bowls his quick strike bowlers in short spells to keep them fresh, and when it is time to strangle the run rate he changes out of attacking mode.

I don't think that McCullum is even an average Test captain. Yesterday he had two bowlers fresh from IPL who haven't bowled long spells for many weeks.

And by over bowling them and retaining insanely attacking fields he gifted England an extra 130 runs that he should not have conceded.

And inserting England was foolish too. The equation in Tests is always "Can we score more in the fourth innings than they can in the first?"

This is a dry track. Nobody will score 350 on the fifth day. So now NZ's only hope is to score 500 in the first innings.
 
shaz619 said:
Test Cricket at its best! wish I was there they got their moneys worth on a beautiful day; I've never been to Lords.
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I used to be a Middlesex CCC member. If you put a jacket and tie on they let you into the Pavilion. It was magical to walk on the steps that Grace, Hobbs, Sobers, Gavaskar, Imran and all the greats trod on. if you go right to the top the view is amazing.
 
Robert said:
Total overcast in London this morning. Kiwis, meet James Anderson.
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It's absolutely fascinating.

I suspect that Anderson and Root are the only English players who would get into this NZ team normally, but New Zealand played yesterday like a team drunk on T20 which has failed to adapt to Test cricket in time. Attritional cricket was totally beyond them: they had only one pace - all out attack - and it cost them dearly.

Williamson and McCullum are totally under-done for Test cricket while Latham and Taylor are out of form.

If NZ were properly prepared, I would only expect Anderson to be "too good" for Martin Guptill and Corey Anderson at Test level. It's a slow, dry pitch on which 450 should be a par first innings score.

But they are not prepared at all - T20 is bad preparation for Tests. This could be ugly.
 
Junaids said:
It's absolutely fascinating.

But they are not prepared at all - T20 is bad preparation for Tests. This could be ugly.
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It's warming up now with high hazy cloud and there could be some rising moist air off the deck. Wish Woakes was playing instead of Broad.

McCullum is portrayed on PP as a combination of Mike Brearley and Rocky Marciano, but he isn't.
 
Robert said:
McCullum is portrayed on PP as a combination of Mike Brearley and Rocky Marciano, but he isn't.
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Precisely.

The press even gave this clown a standing ovation at the World Cup Final after he single-handedly lost it in the first over of the match.

I'll tell you who Brendon McCullum actually resembles as a "master tactician".

He is cricket's equivalent of Kevin Keegan.

We love the batsh*t crazy attack-at-all-costs tactics. It's great entertainment.

But his teams don't know how to defend when they have to. So along comes an Alex Ferguson or a Michael Clarke and he makes it quite easy for them to defeat his own team.

There is no element of surprise, no tactical nous and no ability to change mode and strangle the scoring rate while his strike bowlers rest.


Exciting? Yes.

Compulsive viewing? Yes.

Suicidal? Yes.
 
Robert said:
It's warming up now with high hazy cloud and there could be some rising moist air off the deck. Wish Woakes was playing instead of Broad.

McCullum is portrayed on PP as a combination of Mike Brearley and Rocky Marciano, but he isn't.
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I am not aware of any elements to his captaincy besides aggression and courage. Not being sarcastic, but I have not heard of him being tactically a gun.

He is certainly the boldest captain going around, and although it was a bad decision in hindsight, for a cricket lover it was brilliant to see a touring captain just go straight for the other team's throat from the start of play. One more wicket and it could have been genius.
 
Brendan McCullum's style of attacking cricket was shown in the first over of the world cup final.

When a lot of the people in the Australian setup get carried away with drinking our own over aggressive intent bathwater and we sometimes approach what McCullum does.

Fortunately reality normally sets in but on occasions we see things like Maxwell batting at number 3
 
Robert said:
It's warming up now with high hazy cloud and there could be some rising moist air off the deck. Wish Woakes was playing instead of Broad.

McCullum is portrayed on PP as a combination of Mike Brearley and Rocky Marciano, but he isn't.
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There's another problem for New Zealand here.

Trent Boult and the heavyweight Corey Anderson have been creating substantial rough on a dry wicket.

Even Moeen Ali might look dangerous pitching into that on Day Five.

And still, I'm flabbergasted by McCullum's overbowling of his strike bowlers.

Boult and Henry each bowled 24 overs in a day. That is just insane. Totally self-defeating.
 
BMac only knows one way and that is to go all out in whatever he does. Yeah he’s no tactical genius and when things don’t go right he may end up looking a bit foolish. But at least he tries to make things happen unlike most other captains out there who just choose to sit back and wait hoping for the best.
 
Convict said:
Brendan McCullum's style of attacking cricket was shown in the first over of the world cup final.

When a lot of the people in the Australian setup get carried away with drinking our own over aggressive intent bathwater and we sometimes approach what McCullum does.

Fortunately reality normally sets in but on occasions we see things like Maxwell batting at number 3
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Sure but his aggressive captaincy why they got to the final. They were only there because he launched into the Saffer new ball attack.
 
Junaids said:
There's another problem for New Zealand here.

Trent Boult and the heavyweight Corey Anderson have been creating substantial rough on a dry wicket.

Even Moeen Ali might look dangerous pitching into that on Day Five.

And still, I'm flabbergasted by McCullum's overbowling of his strike bowlers.

Boult and Henry each bowled 24 overs in a day. That is just insane. Totally self-defeating.
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True, 24 overs is too much. Especially when you have a number of all rounders. 20 max for quicks.
 
Random Aussie said:
Sure but his aggressive captaincy why they got to the final. They were only there because he launched into the Saffer new ball attack.
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Yeah. I agree.

It's good for cricket and it's entertaining but sometimes it doesn't pay off.

It's more likely to win games than Cook's throw everyone to the boundaries when Australia have 200 runs to chase over two days.
 
Excellent fight back from england after being 30-4 with the kiwis batting at times been prone to collapse if england get to 400 in 1st inns they could be in a very strong position.
 
Junaids said:
There's another problem for New Zealand here.

Trent Boult and the heavyweight Corey Anderson have been creating substantial rough on a dry wicket.

Even Moeen Ali might look dangerous pitching into that on Day Five.

And still, I'm flabbergasted by McCullum's overbowling of his strike bowlers.

Boult and Henry each bowled 24 overs in a day. That is just insane. Totally self-defeating.
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I was shocked as well at how BMac pretty much bowled his 3 seamers into the ground on day 1, i understand being aggresive but it seems as though he didnt have much faith in craig, Anderson as other options to hold up an end, he needs to learn to use his bowlers and rotate them better.
 
Convict said:
When a lot of the people in the Australian setup get carried away with drinking our own over aggressive intent bathwater and we sometimes approach what McCullum does.
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Fine, when you have the likes of McGrath, Warne, Harris and an in-form Johnson! - but the Kiwis don't have test bowlers of that calibre, no matter what they claim.
 
And when he brought Anderson on, he had him bowl bouncers from round the wicket. McCullum doesn't seem to do defence!
 
Don't think I'd ever say this but I feel sorry for Barbie. The bouncer has become his personal nightmare.
 
Moeen Ali gone after playing a nice innings. Now he needs to put in a good shift with the ball and shut up his critics.
 
NZ must drop Southee for the next Test provided he doesn't perform! So far he aint looking good! And bring in Wheeler or Wagner!
 
389.

Great recovery from the England boys. Proud of them today!
 
Robert said:
389.

Great recovery from the England boys. Proud of them today!
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It was a good fightback, but the KP problem has really only got worse.

The two openers scored 16 and 7.

And numbers three and four scored 1 and 1.

England were helped by the fact that they fought back bravely and above all by the fact that the Lords crowd IS the Home Counties establishment who run English cricket. Of course they are not revolting - they are just enjoying drinking the champers.

But the problems haven't gone away - they were just concealed by McCullum's awful captaincy letting England take charge of the match.
 
Junaids said:
It was a good fightback, but the KP problem has really only got worse.

The two openers scored 16 and 7.

And numbers three and four scored 1 and 1.
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KP is never coming back. Forget him.

Otherwise we have one noob (too early to judge him), one Zimbok who averages 50-odd, and the two senior batters who are in indifferent form.

I'm more worried about the lack of a credible spin option.
 
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