Willoughby63
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Kane Williamson is gone for 4 and Raval for 5 yet I still feel New Zealand will break the 400 mark
England tour of New Zealand 2019
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Yorkshireman
Club Captain
That decision is an absolute facking pisstake. Useless bloody umpires.
Ed Smith
Gaffer
Do all teams cry arse on about the ball constantly trying to get a new one as much as we do?
beechcroft
Panel of Selectors
I like Rory Burns, but he has to be the luckiest batsman in test cricket. I could be wrong, but I think he's been dropped in almost every innings he's played.
wasteyouryouth
Verified
Was thinking exactly the same this morning.
Yorkshireman
Club Captain
He’s got a knack of getting so lucky that it’s almost a talent. Anyway made up for Root and Burns, we really needed some of our players to make a big score. Pleased for em.
Ed Smith
Gaffer
Would be nice if we could have just one game where everyone contributed with the bat mind.
Buzzing for Root and Burns. Hope Pope stays in with him tonight
Buzzing for Root and Burns. Hope Pope stays in with him tonight
beechcroft
Panel of Selectors
Yeah, it would be great to see at least one of the new kids do well.
I read that this is the first time that England have played a Test match with three players aged 21 or less. Only once in the last 50 years have they had three players aged 22 or less.
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
If I may say, it's desperately frustrating to see Zak Crawley in the side. It's just exceedingly premature and a frenetic innings of only one does little to suggest that he's ready temperamentally or technically to be in a Test side.
It's also very concerning that in the space of one Test we've gone from a side that seems to be pretty much common sense (aside from the selection of Sam Curran, which I honestly still don't really get) to a team where only five players (1, 4, 5, 9 and 11) have Test hundreds, where the keeper is a part-timer and the only spinners in the team are part-timers.
But it's really good to see Burns continuing to make himself at home in Test cricket, dropped catches be damned.
Just to think how many Tests James Taylor would have played by now if it'd not been for circumstances beyond anyone's control
It's also very concerning that in the space of one Test we've gone from a side that seems to be pretty much common sense (aside from the selection of Sam Curran, which I honestly still don't really get) to a team where only five players (1, 4, 5, 9 and 11) have Test hundreds, where the keeper is a part-timer and the only spinners in the team are part-timers.
But it's really good to see Burns continuing to make himself at home in Test cricket, dropped catches be damned.
Just to think how many Tests James Taylor would have played by now if it'd not been for circumstances beyond anyone's control
Ed Smith
Gaffer
Aye the team for this game doesn't really make much sense. Although I have to disagree on Curran. I feel he merits his place atm and offers something different. But to throw in Crawley at 6 stinks of panic, and not taking a back up keeper on tour is borderline criminal. I get why Bairstow was dropped, but surely Foakes merits a place in the tour group, if only for situations we find ourselves in now.
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Dutch
Guest
Oh James Taylor indeed! What a great shame that is for him and cricket generally!
beechcroft
Panel of Selectors
He was fortunate that his parallel career in the music business continued to do well.
blockerdave
ICC Chairman
I may be proven wrong in time but Ollie Pope looks bang average.
Yorkshireman
Club Captain
Keaton Jennings to be recalled for the Sri Lanka tests apparently. FFS 
. Tbf he’s good against spin and got good scores out their last time...
. Tbf he’s good against spin and got good scores out their last time...
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Dutch
Guest
He doesnt look on top of it does he?
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