Good stuff from England, NZ absolutely abysmal. Lack of preparation and they will be extremely disappointed with their effort.
Is this a one-off for Eoin Morgan or will he be with sky regularly? Something Sky cricket has done really well over the last 12/18 month is get rid of the old and bring in the young. Seems Broads Sky bound once he finishes too which is great. Anderson seems to be BBC bound
England need to step it up here. That's why I wouldn't have picked Pope. He's short of runs and it shows.
I meant his international failures. This was supposed to be a reset. I'd much rather have put Brooks in at three. Also Lee's way out of his depth. Yeah take shine off it but score runs otherwise you end up with Crawley type wickets born out of frustration.
On a hiding to nothing he is by being played where he doesn't bat for Surrey. Square pegs in round holes again. On the plus side most of our team have had some county championship games before this test. That's a positive against a nation coming here after either playing two months of slog Cricket or no Cricket at all.
Surely the batting no, shouldn't matter that much. He seems to be getting every opportunity to have a test career but isn't really taking it.