Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final

[TeWaio]

Dry morning here in Southampton. I'm off home. At least we got to watch the football in the pub, oh wait that was shit as well 😑

[canefan]

@tewaio said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

Dry morning here in Southampton. I'm off home. At least we got to watch the football in the pub, oh wait that was shit as well 😑

Forecast is dry until early afternoon

[Siam]

No sneaky early start to make up time?

Gotta savour every ball me thinks

You might not be able to win a test match in 3 days but you sure as fuck can lose one in 30 minutes!

(well certainly 60🙂)

[Crucial]

Toss time.
We have won. Bowling.

[LABCAT]

Bowling first!!!

[Crucial]

CDG

[Crucial]

Bring it on!

[Damo]

Good start. Bowlers have to perform though. Days 5 and 6 look real dodgy so we need to run through them asap.

[Damo]

Right call with CDG over Patel. Going with 4 seamers would have been ballsy, probably the right move to pick an allrounder. CDG better score some runs though.

[SynicBast]

@damo said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

Right call with CDG over Patel. Going with 4 seamers would have been ballsy, probably the right move to pick an allrounder. CDG better score some runs though.

If the weather had not develpped as it had, I would have still gone with Patel, but...losing the first day to steady rain means the pitch shouldn't turn anywhere near as much as it would normally (BTW - the Rosebowl pitch may be the most spinner-friendly pitch in England, but that's not actually that much - remember most FC cricket now is played in May not this late in June so the vast majority of pitches are underprepared seamers that assist the Bowlers - sort of like the old way we prepared pitches in NZ before we went to the Paramahoe soil as the default pitch makeup

[Chris B.]

Well, we've had better preparation than India and have won the toss, so we can't have too many excuses - apart from the weather.

Happy with the team - on paper it's a strong batting line-up and we've got guys who can hold a bat in the tail.

We don't have a spinner - sobeit!

[Crucial]

My money is on first wicket being bowled Southee caught Taylor.

[SynicBast]

@crucial said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

My money is on first wicket being bowled Southee caught Taylor.

Gawd I hope so

[sparky]

NZ team

Latham
Conway
Williamson
Taylor
Nicholls
Watling
CDG
Southee
Jamieson
Wagner
Boult

Go make history!

[booboo]

Bring it on Timmah

[Paekakboyz]

Anyone else waiting for the live stream to start on Spark? They have the rights I hope!!

[Donsteppa]

First up loosener pie from Timmy to get Sharma off the mark.

[Donsteppa]

@paekakboyz said in Cricket 2021: NZ in England and WTC Final:

Anyone else waiting for the live stream to start on Spark? They have the rights I hope!!

On Sky! Channel 52

[ACT Crusader]

Too straight first up from Southee.

[booboo]

Movement from Timmah