England 1st innings – 337NZ 1st innings – 174England 2nd innings – 287/5NZ 2nd innings – 158/6 The game is nicely poised with us on six wickets down for bugger all runs, facing either defeat or salvation by poor weather. If it is the latter then England only have themselves to blame as they didn’t … Read more

England 1st innings – 337NZ 1st innings – 174England 2nd innings – 116/1 Day 3 – Just about the worst day’s play ever by a NZ cricket team. Having got the last few wickets cheaply, we started batting knowing that we had to improve on the performance at Lords. Fulton and Rutherford were solid and … Read more

England – 337/7 We bowled brilliantly yesterday or at least Southee and Boult did, just didn’t get the results. 337 is a lot of runs to concede in a day and we looked knackered at the end of it. Bracewell not so much as he was carted round the ground. The ball seamed and swung … Read more

There was no Day 1. No, we didn’t lose the test in a day!   Enforced changes have been made to the Black Caps lineup from the First Test, with Martin and Watling both bustified. In comes Guptil and he should shore up the batting a bit and Bracewell takes Martin’s place. Dan the Man … Read more

Eng 1st innings – 232NZ 1st innnings -207Eng 2nd innings – 213NZ 2nd innnings -68 !!NZ lose by 170 runs -WTF?!After a bit more Southee magic in the morning (including his first 10 for in a game), we had a target of 238 to win the game. Awesome. Difficult but gettable. Even if we got … Read more

Eng 1st innings – 232NZ 1st innnings -207 Eng 2nd innings – 180/6 It is perilously poised this test match. Could go either way and with the weather holding up (no rain) it looks for sure that there will be a result either today or tomorrow morning. At least McCullum and the rest of the … Read more

Not much to say really. We are dominating at the moment. As predicted we got them out for under 250, in fact 232 all out. Southee was fantastic in the second hour of the day keeping the ball up and enticing the drive. McCullum continued to set aggressive fields that encourage batsmen to look for runs. When … Read more

Brownlie takes an awesome catch off Boult bowling to Trott Seldom have we ever dominated a side more than what happened in day two of the first test. OK, so wickets didn’t fall but the poms only scored 160/4 in an entire day of cricket. Ridiculous. Boult charged in and was generally magnificent, well on the way … Read more

Day 1 dawns and it is blue sky above. Hallelujah. That really is a miracle given the absolutely atrocious conditions of the last week. I had the heating on yesterday just to stay alive. Lords looks good – here’s a pic tweeted from their account this morning: The poms have Bresnan and Swann back but … Read more