English cricket 2015 - NZ, The Ashes, Pak and SA
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Bit summer ahead in England, confident of Australia retaining the ashes. England vs New Zealand will be interesting. Cook and England better perform, or else the Pietersen shadow won't go away.
Some guy Adam Lyth expected to be handed debut. He will become England's 666th test player and sixth opening partner for Cook since Strauss' retirement in 2012. Mark Wood also expected to be handed debut, replacing Jordon.
Will the Poms have a new coach by the time the Ashes series starts? They should, but hopefully Strauss fecks it up.
Lyth deserves it based on the County Championship last year but he should've been given the opportunity in West Indies instead of Trott. Right now they should've gone with Hales. Leading run scorer this year with over 500 runs in four games, scoring at a decent tempo. Hales would have sparked some life into what otherwise is a slow scoring and dull top order.
Anybody able to help me stream the TMS coverage?
southee is a decent cricketer.
hola unblocked chrome add-in?
alternatively i can give you the highlights-
boycott: cook isn't as good a captain as me. he's weak compared to me. he's a namby pamby type.
boycott: my grandmother could have kept that out with a stick of rhubarb.
boycott: corridor of uncertainty.
boycott: bad defensive stroke.
I've tried youtube which delivered coverage last year, but that's not available this year it seems. Can't listen online, as i'm outside of the UK.
Good start. Love Boult. 
This is going well.
I am at office. First morning swing bowling in England is something to look forward to but tradition loving English always start matches on Thursday and I miss it most of the times.
Got a sky sports stream, although I enjoy test match special. Doubt many will be surprised by this start from England.
So stupid from captain Cook. Just leave it, no need to hit it. 
bell will get a score but we'll be out for under 250.
Nice jinx
Nice jinx
he did get a score in fairness and we'll be out for under 250. i'm still claiming it.
Good call.
Bell out for 1 clean bowled.
he did get a score in fairness and we'll be out for under 250. i'm still claiming it.
That he did. I too hope you get to 250 somehow. Jimmy needs something to bowl at.the worst part is this was completely expected. gillespie will have turned his phone off by now and checked himself into a hotel under a false name. we should just tear everything up and start again. completely useless.
if they let us bat 4 times we might trouble that accumulatively.
Stokes at 6. Apparently Moeen Ali was at nets
From cricinfo:
From cricinfo:
Good job Kevin's in the team...
Hopefully Dizzy is having second thoughts.
Bold prediction: This summer will break Cook/this might be the last summer he's a regular.
Stokes and Root have got themselves in the both need to make 70+
Great counter attacking play from Root and Stokes (at least that's how it appears based on commentary and strike rates).
I think we are probably going to retain the ashes tbh.
Probably, but I think it'll be close.
Was a predictably horrendous start for us. Root and Stokes have done excellently to counter-attack NZ. Push close to 300 and we're right in the game.
All Root needs to do at this point is bang up the Aussies in the summer and his legendary status will be confirmed. Such a calming influence, so good.
he'll be fast tracked to captaincy if cook doesn't perform this summer. he'll be captain and the main run scoring hope, he'll rise to the occasion for the first 12 months before being ground down by how useless the set up is around him whilst his average and level of performance slowly drops, test after test. sigh.
He's pretty much the target batsman in all three forms as well......which is actually a HUGE reason to if anything, use Pietersen for a bit, get some of that attention of Root. Seems like Root loves it though......but we'll see how he copes coming in like 40-4 in the Ashes rather than against NZ.
England have done very well after the Kiwis were all over them early on like Australia will be.
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Root is amazing.
He will become a legend.
He will become a legend.
Good fightback this.
But this Moeen Ali as sole spinner thing isn't going to last. Not a good strategy.
But this Moeen Ali as sole spinner thing isn't going to last. Not a good strategy.