England 1st innings - 337
NZ 1st innings - 174
England 2nd innings - 116/1
Day 3 - Just about the worst day's play ever by a NZ cricket team. Having got the last few wickets cheaply, we started batting knowing that we had to improve on the performance at Lords.
Fulton and Rutherford were solid and attacked when required and we were 55/0 at one stage. Anderson whinged about the ball, it got changed and the game ended for us. The second ball was a different kettle of fish and we were ruined. It was 124/9 at one point and only some sophisticated slogging by Boult and Wagner got us to the eventual total of 174. Absolutely disastrous again. Some of the batting was truly laughable. Brownlie and Guptil's dismals were embarassing, getting bowled between bat and pad. No application to the cause at all.
The only thing that saved us was the decision by England not to put us in again, as the match could conceivably been over with all 20 wickets falling in one day. As it is England are batting and nurdling it around for a massive lead by the looks of things. Cook looks awesome.
These are not good days to be a Black Caps supporter.
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