14-06-2022, 18:51
That is comfortably the best England Test since Headingley 2019. Runs you'd be better off weighing than counting, enough for the bowlers to keep things interesting, and what a final session to cap it all off! Not sure what the Kiwis were thinking in the last hour, mind; Bairstow's got short boundaries to either side and can't defend an inswinging ball on the stumps to save his life, so you dish up 80mph short stuff just begging to be deposited in the stands? It's like they'd never seen him bat before. Proper lost-the-plot stuff.
What a contrast to the match last year when Williamson dangled a 270ish target that Root refused to go for, as well. Cricket played for entertainment, not moral victories or statistical niceties.
What a contrast to the match last year when Williamson dangled a 270ish target that Root refused to go for, as well. Cricket played for entertainment, not moral victories or statistical niceties.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley