England V New Zealand 2013

Close Day 4 - New Zealand 2nd Innings - 158-6 require another 310 to win

It's strange how enforcing the follow on has become unfashionable.

As it stands England still require a further 2 wickets to win this Test Match,but the weather is preventing them from getting on the field of play.
The England captain & coach will be left with egg on their faces if New Zealand escape with a draw.

9 down now,Swann has taken 10 wickets in the match.

england were lucky to get the 10th has it started to rain about 15minutes afterwards.

Now for the Mickey Mouse stuff.3 ODI's then we face New Zealand again in the Champions Trophy group stages,followed by 2 T20's.

(28-05-2013 18:16 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  Now for the Mickey Mouse stuff.3 ODI's then we face New Zealand again in the Champions Trophy group stages,followed by 2 T20's.

Compton out for the ashes and a cudboard cut out of ian botham in lol its not likely too do much worse, but in all seriousness the lad is in horrendous nick so unless he goes back and gets and avalanche of runs In County cricket I am backing root to open in the ashes or bat at 5 and bring the ever positive trott upto open

# it's all in Tbears guide to winning the ashes

1st ODI New Zealand put England into bat,& after a solid start of 45-0.Both openers are out & it's 50-2

Trott and Root have a 50 partnership and score is currently 109-2,i enjoy listening to the commentary on radio and there are some classic moments relived on the iplayer in an episode called voices of summer(including brian johnston cracking up at someone not being able to get his leg over!) well worth a listen to cricket fans typical Root just out! Morgan batting now. 117-3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01snrcx In their 50 overs England made 227-9.

England posted 227-9 without any batsmen scoring higher than Trotts 37.Southee taking 3-37

Anderson has just broken the 3rd wicket partnership of 119 between Taylor 54 & Guptill 60 not out.
A good recovery after being 1-2. Anderson has taken 3-21