the former. i saw the bit about root and cook being 31 plus 157 days old during commentary on cricinfo and looked up the 10k scorers on cricinfo.
Another fine bottle job from Yorkshire against that lot from over t'ill. Good game for the neutral but if you've watched Yorkshire long enough you knew exactly where it was going. Their only strategy for a while now seems to be trying to out score teams on flat pitches at home. Sometimes they get on a roll and win pretty much all of them, but other times it doesn't come off, like this year, and their away record in T20 is abysmal. Well they now have about 6 away games on the trot so it's another Finals Day watching the rest battle it out for glory, and I'd be amazed if those red rose ****ers weren't there this time
Exactly, it will be interesting to see how this goes, not sure about Pope at 3, where is Malan, as I thought he might be a better bet?
I'm not sure about Pope anywhere tbh. I thought he showed real promise a year or so ago but he's never really kicked on.
Mindful of what Richie Benaud used to say, 'if you win the toss and it's obvious you should bat, then bat. If it's not that obvious, take your time, have a good think...then bat.
Thought it was a bit ott to distract Broady by burning his pub down. NZ are going to win this test regardless.
You can't help feeling the first test was NZ just getting used to the conditions, now they are showing their true class.
