WICKET! Latham b Anderson 4 (New Zealand 4-1)
OH MY ABSOLUTELY FULL DAYS AND ALL! The ball is kicked out of play, but the ball went wide. It may be the worst permission I’ve ever seen, and Anderson now has 650 test ports! He is just a ridiculous human being, we have the privilege of living in his time and we will never see anything or anyone like him again. A giant.
1st Final: New Zealand 4-0 (Latham 4, Young 0) Obviously, it’s impossible to see this match situation and not feel bad thinking about Adelaide, so let it go and process our trauma together. Latham presents the full face to send four to the ground, is a good shot. Um, of course, yes, I know this, why it’s something known in advance.
The teams are back. Fasten your seatbelt, comrades.
“Following Jos’s situation,” says Yen Wilson, “he has played 57 games against Jonny’s 84, but he only has two runs below average and almost all of his entries were at number 7 and playing with the tail and he is better. batsman playing above the order without a doubt “.
Bairstow was unlucky, I thought: he stayed on the team too long when it obviously wasn’t working, so when he was finally abandoned, he really should have come back with his flaws fixed. He also has the talent to do it on a test level, but his problems are, to me, more about technique, while Buttler’s are more about focus.
Boult leads New Zealand, his 33.3-8-106-5 figures are even better than they seem. But the action he has taken this morning will have introduced the thrill to the English steps, so his batsmen have a lot of work to do.
Amderson st Blundell b Bracewell 9 (England 539 all out, New Zealand led by 14)
Anderson sinks, tries what is almost a setback, fails and goes out bail. I can’t wait for this next mini-sesh, because the game is in play.
129th on: England 539-9 (Leach 0, Anderson 9) Anderson has a great harvest at Bracewell, who gets a decent rebound and therefore loses everything.
REVIEW! NO OUT!
Yes, Leach did very well in putting a nasty delivery on his boot.
128th on: England 539-9 (Leach 0, Anderson 9) Anderson needs five more runs to overtake Boult as the most prolific No. 11 in the game: can he eliminate them all at once? Well, not at the moment: Leach is on strike and calmly plays five points before a toothpick makes a call. Not out says the referee, so let’s go upstairs. I think he was the first bat.
Tim de Lisle, who will tell you through tons of Leach and Anderson later, gets in touch with the following statistic:
Boult and Anderson – 8 for 167 Rest of Sabers – 6 for 674
(England 5 for 318, NZ 1 for 356!)
Most reverse sweepers against spinners from England’s test batsmen:
Joe Root – 92Ben Stokes – 77Jos Buttler – 73James Anderson – 61
– Ben Jones (@benjonescricket) June 13, 2022
127th Above: England 539-9 (Leach 0, Anderson 9) Bracewell slows it down for Anderson to speed it up, pulling a long leg down the track and sweeping for a four from a rebound. So Bracewell goes wider … and goes upside down for four more! They will be drunk, and this has been a tremendous first hour of play.
126th on: England 531-9 (Leach 0, Anderson 1) Boult is in it now, the ball moves well for him; I dare say Anderson takes notes for when he puts on his bowling boots sometime after tea. He is totally baffled by one who leaves him, then grabs a very thin leg and enjoys a word with yerman on the way to the other end.
“I may be in the minority,” says Gary Naylor, “but I really like England’s approach here. The stated goal is to win the test, so staying in the top 10 could be more important than doing more races in an hour “.
I agree. If I’m Stokes, I want a bit of an advantage to increase the pressure, but from there it’s much more likely that England will be defeated by time than by New Zealand.
WICKET! Potts b Boult 3 (England 530-9)
Five for Boult, his tenth in Tests! What a bowler he is. This is a fantastic and wasted delivery on Potts really, a yorker inswinger that makes him move to his leg as his pegs are raised. He has had better mornings.
New Zealander Trent Boult celebrates with his teammates after taking the port of Englishman Matthew Potts. Photo: Andrew Boyers / Action Images / Reuters
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125th: England 528-8 (Potts 1, Leach 0) Of course, this port brings Jack Leach to the port, so New Zealand should be careful what they want, and we approach a fallen Potts who sold to his partner a donkey. He escapes the mark, in test cricket, with a long push, which makes me wonder how many batsmen have finished before they have scored.
My sister and I were watching county cricket in the late ’80s, “says John Harrison,” when the crowd started singing “there’s only one Eddie Hemmings.” We tried to get together (badly) and our mother’s disgust was such that she corrected us in a hilarious way singing in the sharpest, most choral, and little terrace way you can imagine. To this day when he sings, his voice is called Eddie Hemmings.
Excellent: I’m always amazed at how bad sports singing is. You look like chunks of meat, as my father’s barmitzvah teacher liked to say to boys who didn’t meet his chirping standards.
WICKET! Foakes Ends (Latham / Bracewell) 56 (England 527-8)
The first non-captured of the match! Potts gets in the middle and calls Foakes through; for his part, Foakes wants Potts to leave the mark and strike. But there’s never a run there, so when Latham climbs the non-attacker, Bracewell has plenty of time to bail out. After a terrible start to the morning, New Zealand has made it.
English batsman Ben Foakes is eliminated by Michael Bracewell. Photo: Stu Forster / Getty Images
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124th: England 527-7 (Foakes 56, Potts 0) Foakes nearly commands Boult his five, losing a fiber edge, but a maiden survives. Its stubble is an engineered feat, perfectly built and maintained.
123rd on: England 527-7 (Foakes 56, Potts 0) Potts tries to leave the mark but can’t.
“Hi Daniel, I love the show,” begins his great friend, John Plunkett. “All the ports have been captured so far, is that some kind of record? Or if not, could we go to one?
The record is 35 …
WICKET! Broad c Mitchell b Bracewell 9 (England 527-7)
Wide cuts and even though the ball has passed to Mitchell, he jumps with one hand to grab a beauty. Surprisingly, Broad walks.
123rd on: England 527-6 (Foakes 56, Broad 9) Yes, Bracewell on the attack: I dare say Broad is there precisely for this eventuality, and we might see some action in the next moment. Shonuff, after Foakes strokes a single next to it, Broad gets on his knees to caress the corner for four. The audacity!
122nd Above: England 522-6 (Foakes 55, Broad 5) Boult, on a pepper hunt, sends one to Broad’s pads, which the master slides to the thinnest leg for four. Don’t overturn it, son! I think we could see some twists below.
“Now I’ve had two dreams in which I’ve been playing slips, the first of which was next to Andrew Flintoff,” says Katie Allen. “Both times I grabbed my hand to grab … and threw everything off my nightstand.”
Well, obviously it was Freddie’s ball.
121st more: England 518-6 (Foakes 55, Broad 1) Foakes pulls a single to the point, then Broad escapes with a push out. These are the only last minute departures.
“Maybe Root playing these Buttler-like shots is part of the new mindset that McCullum and Stokes got, maybe with Foakes as the best goalkeeper, Jos could go back to the test team if Bairstow doesn’t comply. “Wicketkeeping stress is a potential big middle-class test player in this new mindset.”
I resigned from Buttler, I must say, but in the midst of all the debate over his merits, people tended to forget that he almost never entered the board with anything or even half decent. If that changes, I agree that I might try again, but I’m also laughing at myself for saying that.
120th Over: England 516-6 (Foakes 54, Broad 0) Stuart Broad baptizes? Yes it is, sent ahead of Matty Potts, presumably to throw up his hands and anything else he can find; there was talk of sending him early to Lord’s on the penultimate evening, the reason that a few luxurious strokes would be almost enough. finished things. Play three points.
“‘ If you can become a daycare, ’” says Tony White. “You mean, like, saltines and their ilk, eh ?!
One of the many great friends of the show.
WICKET! Joe Root v Southee b Boult 176 (England 516-6)
The root gives it away. I’m just kidding, but he seems discouraged walking away (people like him are built differently than the rest of us), having guided a slower ball straight to cover. Not a hard catch, but Southee’s merit for taking it after the morning she’s had.
Joe Root is fired. Photo: Tom Jenkins / The Guardian
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119th envelope: England 516-5 (Root 176, Foakes 54) Foakes pulls out two through relief, then four through the back block to increase the hundred members; this is a very good baptism, and another four lifts its 50 when Southee sends a short width of it which is sent across the deck to the fence. Wow, what’s going on here ?! Foakes is timing him as the father of God here, and a York attempt allows him to push four more; that’s 14 above, the deficit now 37. Something might be going on here.
“My prized autograph was from that great cricketer, Eddie Hemmings,” says James Debens. “I’ve lost it now, many home changes later, but the memories of picking it up in Canterbury are kind and sweet. I was about 14. When I was a teenager, I …