Nass and Mel rather disparaging of the umpires and powers that be, as the players leave 11 balls in due to rain, after lunching throughout the sunshine.
Devan goes at the first ball after the resumption with hard hands. He won't be there long if he keeps this up
Rachin succumbs to Robinson with another ball going on to hit off stump. A tough assignment is getting tougher. This pitch is a minefield
Mitch given LBW, review confirms it. He was unlucky, I thought in real time that it was going down leg but the umpire gave him out. If he hadn't he would have been safe. I think you can stick a fork in us
Left Lords 2 hours ago. Crap day, crap pitch.
Paid NZ34.00 for a burger at Lords, wx cold like a miserable Wgtn southerly day.
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
We like to bag poor pitches on the subcontinent. But this Lord's pitch is not test quality
Agreed, but if the rain saves NZ they don't deserve it. After all England played on exactly the same pitch.
199 further runs look a million miles away.
Twin failures from Latham, Ravindra and Mitchell are hugely disappointing. We can't always rely on KW miracles.
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Twin failures from Latham, Ravindra and Mitchell are hugely disappointing. We can't always rely on KW miracles.
KW was 0 and 18. That's hardly a non-failure.
@nzzp said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Twin failures from Latham, Ravindra and Mitchell are hugely disappointing. We can't always rely on KW miracles.
KW was 0 and 18. That's hardly a non-failure.
For sure. What I'm trying to say is that will happen every now and again. If it does someone else should stand up.
Although the Indians on FB are taking great delight in pointing out KW fails overseas and talking up Kohli as being better ( conveniently forgetting his average record in the last few years of his test career )
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Alright Nigel
Glad you're here. Can you give us a weather report please ?
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Alright Nigel
Glad you're here. Can you give us a weather report please ?
It's a miracle. I can see the sky.
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Alright Nigel
Glad you're here. Can you give us a weather report please ?
It's a miracle. I can see the sky.
Hallelujah !!!!!
I mean......fuck !!!
....that's not the only miracle we'll need today.
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Alright Nigel
Glad you're here. Can you give us a weather report please ?
It's a miracle. I can see the sky.
Hallelujah !!!!!
I mean......fuck !!!
....that's not the only miracle we'll need today.
Too much to ask some of our specialist batters to grow a spine?
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Alright Nigel
Glad you're here. Can you give us a weather report please ?
It's a miracle. I can see the sky.
Hallelujah !!!!!
I mean......fuck !!!
....that's not the only miracle we'll need today.
Too much to ask some of our specialist batters to grow a spine?
Well they've all fucken sucked so far this test.
Help us Obi Wan Conway. You're our only hope !
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Alright Nigel
Glad you're here. Can you give us a weather report please ?
It's a miracle. I can see the sky.
Hallelujah !!!!!
I mean......fuck !!!
....that's not the only miracle we'll need today.
Too much to ask some of our specialist batters to grow a spine?
Well they've all fucken sucked so far this test.
Help us Obi Wan Conway. You're our only hope !
He looks so out of sync. Nasser broke it down by comparing his Lords double ton innings to now. His prep and footwork are all at sea
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Alright Nigel
Glad you're here. Can you give us a weather report please ?
It's a miracle. I can see the sky.
Hallelujah !!!!!
I mean......fuck !!!
....that's not the only miracle we'll need today.
Too much to ask some of our specialist batters to grow a spine?
Well they've all fucken sucked so far this test.
Help us Obi Wan Conway. You're our only hope !
He looks so out of sync. Nasser broke it down by comparing his Lords double ton innings to now. His prep and footwork are all at sea
Nassar Hussein played close to 100 tests for England as a specialist batsman and averaged 37. He doesn't know shit.
( ok, he is is actually an outstanding pundit to be fair )
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@canefan said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@MN5 said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
@Bones said in Black Caps Test Tour to England & Ireland:
Alright Nigel
Glad you're here. Can you give us a weather report please ?
It's a miracle. I can see the sky.
Hallelujah !!!!!
I mean......fuck !!!
....that's not the only miracle we'll need today.
Too much to ask some of our specialist batters to grow a spine?
Well they've all fucken sucked so far this test.
Help us Obi Wan Conway. You're our only hope !
He looks so out of sync. Nasser broke it down by comparing his Lords double ton innings to now. His prep and footwork are all at sea
Nassar Hussein played close to 100 tests for England as a specialist batsman and averaged 37. He doesn't know shit.
( ok, he is is actually an outstanding pundit to be fair )
It was a good piece. Devan doesn't get his front foot set early enough, so instead of then stepping into the ball he's still trying to get balanced. Nasser said that's why he can't "locate" the ball. It reminded me of the last time he was out of form in a NZ test series. Just lacking confidence, getting hit or trying not to get hit. Hard hands.