I agree. Broad has taken those wickets. His 5 for was actually piss poor He's delivered dangerous balls but lots and lots of wide east to smash balls. Anderson was really really poor he took a couple of wickets but then never looked dangerous . A lot of poor deliveries, bad field etc etc. Neither front line players impresses at all. Stokes and wood tried their best. Moeen was God awful. The fielding was trash most of the time with ball going between slips or through hands. A few were hard yes but a lot was just waste. This has the hall marks of a white wash coming unfortunately.
I just can't understand our bowling to the tail enders. Constantly trying to bounce them out, they are tailenders because they aren't very good at hitting the ball, bowl at the stumps FFS. 1st innings we got 1 bowled and 1 lbw... rest all caught. NZ - 2 bowled and 1 LBW. 2nd innings Eng - 1 LBW NZ 2nd innings - 3 bowled & 2 LBW. 5 bowled & 3 lbw against 2 bowled and 1 LBW. Bowl at the stumps and you have more chance of getting a wicket when the ball is swinging.
I agree. Southee simply forced everyone to play. So why worry about a few 4s. Southee bowled tight and the ball straighten and came off edges. New Zealand could leave most of our bowling... zero pressure then offered easy single runs too due to field. I agree line and length and let the ball movement kill them. It's easy duck and leave but when you have to block or feel for the ball that's where they **** up. There was incredibly variable bounce too... bowl at the stumps and that comes in big style too.
Yup, in theory, if you bowl at the stumps you can get bowled, lbw and caught. Bowl bouncers you can only get caught. Prefer those odds.
Just had an email from my mate who's the CEO at the MCC. I'd asked him for tickets for the Friday and Saturday of the Lord's Ashes Test. Totally ****ing sold out He'll give me a guided tour later in the Summer, but it's not quite the same.
unlucky.... I think a tour of an empty place aint cutting it... Tell him by Monday nobody will want one and he can got swivel on that ticket then.
didn't notice this. the other thing is you can knock someone's block off. bouncers have their place. to unsettle a batsman and not have him just coming on front foot havign easy time. its a 1 in 6 ball type of thing...
Yeah as the odd surprise but not as the standard ball which is what it became when England were bowling to tail Enders.
Forgot this was on.... Been out at our team day. Looks like root and butler enjoyed themselves... Some tasty bowling figures. Nice new team as well, plenty of new exciting players like Roy, Hales, Rashid, Billings
Well, what a stunning performance. England have raised the curtain on their new era of one-day cricket in some style. They have absolutely thrashed one of the world's best teams in this format. They were fantastic with the bat in racking up their biggest ever total of 408-9, with Joe Root stroking a quickfire century and Jos Buttler bludgeoning an ever swifter ton. Adil Rashid and Eoin Morgan played superb supporting roles as New Zealand's much-vaunted bowlers were humbled. That took the pressure of their bowling performance, but this was still a display not to be sniffed at. Steven Finn and Adil Rashid, two players whose international credentials have frequently been questioned, were brilliant, claiming four wickets apiece to defuse a potentially explosive batting line-up. As for New Zealand, well they were desperately disappointing. They desperately missed Tim Southee and Daniel Vettori, and will have to improve quickly before the second ODI on Friday. BBC summary.
