What are ****ing joke, we were bloody horrible, that was even worse then being bowled out for 114 last week. It all started off with us giving England runs in the morning, what the heck was Vettori doing. His field settings were hopeless, two guys out on the boundary at the beginning of the day with two tailenders batting. He doesn't even bowl O'Brien that much, I think he bowled about 4-5 over?s. Why did Vettori bowl him self yesterday and Martin, who I might add has been bowling very badly over there, he just isn't a wicket taker.
Now lets talk about the batting, the ball Anderson produced to get rid of Redmond was good but why was he trying to hit it to mid-wicket, play straight man you are a opener, not a nine. Then for some reason with the ball swinging all over the place McCullum comes out at three and goes out the same way as Redmond, this time though he was trying to hit very leg sideish. I love watching McCullum bat, but he isn't a Number three in test cricket. Taylor knuckled down and batted alright, he only made 21 but at least he wasn't playing a stupid shot when he went out. I have no Idea why Flynn played, everyone could tell from the three balls he faced that he was thinking of that bouncer in the 2nd test. Jamie How batted well, but again failed too go on, poking at another ball to get him self out. How looks like a great test batsmen, but he just always seem to get himself out. Oram looked all at sea again, he really has to work on poking out at the ball too, I wonder what all of NZ coaches are doing these days because they don't seem to be helping our batsmen.
All and all England will comfortably win this game, I really can't see New Zealand getting the required 60 odd runs to get past the follow on, when they bat again they would be lucky to even pass 200. What we need is a decent opening bowler, I'm so sick of Martin and Mills, they do an alright job but they are not TEST OPENERSI hope Southee is able to pick up pace as he gets older, He reminds me of Dale Steyn with his action, so lets hope NZ fans that he is able to reach his pace one day, or maybe New Zealand should just bring Shane Bond back
I would also like to comment on England, Anderson bowled well today but like most of you are saying he doesn't do it enough. The conditions today really suited his bowling and he used it well. I also agree with what most of you are saying about Stuart Broad to, his bowling his pretty ineffective, and he doesn't look very dangerous. Maybe he should play county cricket for a few seasons to get his speed up and maybe get some more variations, but this in turn may hurt is batting.
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