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and Vettori out for a duck. Didn't expect that. 3 wickets or 187 runs to win.

Billy Corgan is at the game!!

David Lloyd says Siamese Dream was a smashing album. lol
Roger Daltrey is there too.

Sidebottom and Broad are bowling really well. Impressive stuff. I hadn't realised Broad was so tall. He's 6'6 and still growing, so he might end up 6'8.
Used to love watching Joel Garner and Curtley Ambrose bowl. They were huge guys.

Mills out LBW. 270-8

311-9

Monty takes the final wicket Sidebottom shows his team mates how to catch the ball.. McCullum out on 85. Series is now 1-1.

Hair is back
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/7303232.stm

NZ collapsing like an English batting order here. Gone from 100-1 to 138-7
Sidebottom with 6 wickets.

Strauss makes a century!!!!!!!!!

And now Bell.

1 wicket to go at lunch.
Sky are showing the england fan from the other test falling while carrying his pint. I dont think i'll ever tire of seeing that. Hope its on youtube.

Here it is ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyc22i1hVbk
youtube says its a kiwi. It was amazing that it was actual live footage as it happened. They were focussing on the crowd pointing out all the crazy barmy army fancy dress and they picked up the drunk guy and then he fellover. The whole commentary were pissing themselves.

This was brilliant too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhP8d9U3RXI&NR=1

A win by 121 runs. Southee 77 not out after smashing sixes all round the ground in only 39 balls

Shoaib Akhtar given five-year ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/other_international/pakistan/7323360.stm

IPL has just kicked off, is this end of cricket as we know it?

Holy shit 158 off 73 balls from McCullum!

The first day of the first test and summer is....... where?

Any chance of this lasting til Monday does we reckon? The weather offers one hope that it might but by all accounts aren't England expected to give NZ a pasting?

They'll be extending each day's play should today be a wash-out. But yeah, a fairly good chance of play on Monday I reckon.

Then there's a fairly good chance I will be not at work on Monday I reckon. Still do cheapio final day tickets at Lord's right?

NZ 2/1

This ain't goonna last til monday.

Anderson will be swinging it about like no one's business.

NZ 104-5

pwn

Anderson will be shit for the next 2 matches then. The boys got talent if only he had consistency.

Captains innings from Vaughan, a century.
England 317-8. montys in to parter the skipper.

montys out 2nd ball

England 235-3 Strauss out for 106. 59 needed to win.
Will England collapse?

KP run out

Pietersen gone

Go the Bluck Cups.

An incredible and unlikely win for England!

Finally a gutsy performance from England when the chips are down. Well done Monty and Strauss!

Aus avoiding an upset

Great work from Clark.

bah bluddy Clark.

I know its only NZ but I enjoyed this.

Gotta feel if Collingwood and Pietersen find form, maybe dump Bell (bit of a Hick/Ramprakash type to me), MAYBE if Flintoff comes back batting well and firing in four over spells, THEN MAYBE, y'know...oh and I hear Simon Jones is recovering ok w/Worcestershire

Damn, i was hoping the Windies would win:\

Nah Bell aint going anywhere. Colly might get dumped if hes awful against SA.
Flintoff bat well? That would be a first. I suppose there's more chance of that however than Anderson being consistent.

Jimmy's on fire. 2 wickets with the new ball. I just wish he could bowl like this all the time.

Good innings from Broad as well. Boycs reckons he'll get a century before his career is over.

Oh I think he'll get more than 1. I think he will be a better allrounder than Freddie.

I would be more worried about his bowling than his batting

He needs to develop a metronomic action a la McGrath. He has the height, but not the pace at the moment.

Joel garner was in his late 20s before he got the pace. They're probably around the same size and Broad will get get stronger.

If England do go with a 4 man attack against Australia or South Africa we might have Freddie at 7 and Broad at 8.

Joel garner was in his late 20s before he got the pace

He was pretty good all along!

The BBC text commentary guy has annoyingly taken to calling Broad Malfoy. The beeb should have stuck with the factual stuff and not tried to copy the Guardian IMO.

Jimmy Jimmy
62-3

Good stuff.

4 down now. Jimmy nearly got Flynn LBW and he did next ball.