England v New Zealand | 2nd Test | Headingley | 26/5/13 | Day 3

[malakian]

What happened to Kiwi?

 

[James]

lol, Kiwi's gonna have a jolt when he wakes up in Wellington and checks the score.

 

[Ruri]

Trott..... 18.18 SR. Come on.

 

[Ruri]

Tedious batting this. No reason whatsoever to dawdle. Even if we lose the next 9 wickets for 100 runs by lunch tomorrow, that's worth more than 150 before tea next day.

 

[James]

Cook's got 73% of the innings runs. Shows how awesome he is and how some of our other players are...not.

 

[Ruri]

Condemnable partnership this. With rain forecasted for day 5, get a move on it.

 

[Ruri]

Finally a four as I rail against them.

 

[James]

This top order is too slow. Sack Compton, get Root in there and bring Pietersen back.

 

[Ruri]

So much respect shown to a part time spinner.

 

[James]

19 runs off the last 10 overs. Facepalming to the max.

 

[Ruri]

BAH! Missed runout. We could have had some runs with Trott out.

 

[James]

Shame Trott didn't get run out. He ought to face a serious rollocking for this one.

 

[Ruri]

19 runs off the last 10 overs. Facepalming to the max.

30 in 17 overs. Terrible partnership this is.

 

[Shaheerthe2nd]

What is Trott doing?

With rain forecast for tomorrow, he should be looking to press home the advantage.

 

[James]

Michael Vaughan - 'Jonathan Trott's making Nick Compton's 7 look explosive at the moment' )

 

[James]

It's the selfish Saffa gene talking again

 

[Ruri]

Finally another 4 by Cook.

 

[James]

286-1 is effectively the lead. This is a criminalistic innings from Trott.

 

[MattyB]

Trott and Compton together have scored 16 from just 110 deliveries, you won't witness this level of attacking fluency anywhere else in the world...

 

[leatherface58]

2013: A Saffer's Odyssey

 

[KPfan]

Double figures for Trott!

 

[Ruri]

WOOO. 11 runs for Trott. Rocking that 15.94 SR.


Against a beaten NZ side overbowling a part time spinner for a lack of option. Forget Compo, sack Trott.