10th Match: England vs New Zealand at Jo'Burg

[Howsie]

Hopefully we can pick up one or two more wickets early on, we really should with how this pitch is behaving.

 

[King Pietersen]

Eugh. Denly gone. Davies would have scored a hundred tbh. England are back

 

[evertonfan]

Oh dear. This looks to be a win the toss win the match pitch just like our game against Sri Lanka.

Great to see some bowling pitches around though. They make ODI's more interesting and if you score runs on these wickets they're really deserved runs.

 

[The_gas]

Pitch looks pretty menacing. Wasn't this the pitch we beat sri lanka on? I take it we were put into bat?

 

[nz0003]

Show your class Bondy, pick up this Denly character.

Confirmed.

 

[Howsie]

Unlucky Joe Denly, couldn't do much with that ball. It's the start we needed though, would really like to get Collingwood early though. This pitch would probably suit his style of play.

Howsie added 2 Minutes and 19 Seconds later...

Oh dear. This looks to be a win the toss win the match pitch just like our game against Sri Lanka.

Great to see some bowling pitches around though. They make ODI's more interesting and if you score runs on these wickets they're really deserved runs.

Yea agree. Although some boards are already kicking up a stink about the pitches.

 

[King Pietersen]

Shah gone as well. Bopara's going to score a 60 ball hundred today tbh. I hate New Zealand.

 

[nz0003]

Goodbye Shah.

 

[evertonfan]

Now that's just a ludicrous shot. Get him out of the team already.

 

[The_gas]

Morgan to the rescue, but in all honesty, who cares we're already through. :banana2

 

[Howsie]

What was Shah thinking their, we'll take it though

Btw Bond has almost got his average down under 20 again.

 

[evertonfan]

Yea agree. Although some boards are already kicking up a stink about the pitches.

And that gets on my nerves. Just imagine how boring this tournament would be if all the pitches were tailor made for batsmen and scores of 300+ everytime? It's about time we saw a few contests that favoured bowling sides.

As for England, we really need to make 180 minimum just to have something to defend. We saw in the Sri Lanka game that the pitch does ease off.

evertonfan added 0 Minutes and 54 Seconds later...

Morgan to the rescue, but in all honesty, who cares we're already through. :banana2

I care!

I want to beat New Zealand. They're a bit of a bogey team for us.

 

[King Pietersen]

Bond's awesome. Real shame he's from New Zealand tbh. Would have made a far better Englishman.

 

[Howsie]

And that gets on my nerves. Just imagine how boring this tournament would be if all the pitches were tailor made for batsmen and scores of 300+ everytime? It's about time we saw a few contests that favoured bowling sides.

As for England, we really need to make 180 minimum just to have something to defend. We saw in the Sri Lanka game that the pitch does ease off.

Tbh I actually like seeing the odd low scoring game. We played you guys in England last year defending 180 odd iirc, best ODI game I've seen in a long time.

 

[evertonfan]

Bowling > Batting.

Shot Colly. What an absolute beast of a humanoid.