England v New Zealand, 1st T20I, The Oval, 25 June, 2013

How has Dirtbag got another game in an England shirt? Most of us knew after his 1st match that he was toss.

Andy Flower thinks quite a lot of his technique.

Yeah, he's no Jimmy Taylor. Well, about two of him in height terms I guess...

At least good old Pukey pulled it back for a couple of overs. Leader of the attack!

Poor Luke had the plumbest lbw ever turned down a few overs ago when I was actually watching.

Good old Puke, he's a man for a crisis.

This is quite an England team.

The honest county journeymen (Rankin and Wright) look too good for it.

The survivors of the ICCCT (Tredwell, Buttler, Bopara - maybe even the generally livewire Morgan) look like they couldn't give a jaded farq.

Most of the others look like the flotsam and jetsam of the county scene - you would back them to lose to Scotland, never mind Ireland.

Or even the Isle of Lewis FFS.

PeterCS wrote:This is quite an England team.

The honest county journeymen (Rankin and Wright) look too good for it.

Cheer up.

I tells it as I sees it, Monkehh.

Good to see you telling it actually how it is though for a change.

Good death bowling from Dernbach.

I still don't get why anyone would refuse an attempt at a run off the last ball of a limited overs innings unless the ball is in the hands of the bowler or keeper.

A potentially powerpacked England batting line-up. Tonk all the way down to 9

Interestingly, if you don't play any bowlers, you go for 200+ in T20s.

Who knew?

Been a big old wipe so far. It's nice to see shots from people in red shirts in the powerplay overs.

Lumb out now, sort of unfortunate, if yorking yourself is unlucky. England are smashing it though - 54/1 off 3.5.

Old Pukey - he's a dynamo isn't he? A boy wonder. He'd be in my T20 side every game. I'd go as far as to say that he's our best T20 all-rounder.

Well, some decent tonking going on. 201 is a good score in T20s in anyone's language.

Ferkin Dickinfo is all over the shop. Is the current score Eng 2-132 off 13?

Should be tight.

Great captaincy by McCullum to have a slip in for Morgan - even more spectacular a catch by Taylor.

Useful catch.

skully wrote:Well, some decent tonking going on. 201 is a good score in T20s in anyone's language.

Ferkin Dickinfo is all over the shop. Is the current score Eng 2-132 off 13?

Should be tight.

136/3 after 14. We need 11s.

Morgan is done. Finished. Found out with no Plan B. It's kind of surprising until you remember that he's always looked sh*t.

We're miles behind now. Don't reckon we'll do this. Some really good bowling in the last 6 overs.

And theyve lost the bloody picture here.

Anderson arguing the toss about one of the biggest wides ever.

Bopsy on the tonk.