Over-by-over report: Join our writers for all the action on the third day of the first Test at Lord’s
On the England balcony, Brendon McCullum looks relaxed. He’ll learn. Lees waits for Southee, bat aloft, a good half a ruler length outside off stump.
“Ah, a classic “oh yes, oh no” moment for England,” writes Nick Williamson. “Hooray, we’ve managed to get them all out; oh dear, now we need to bat.2nd over: England 11-0 Crawley off the mark with a shovel off his hip and picks up three, then Lees ticks off a second boundary - chased by four galloping New Zealanders. He’s ticking along at unaccustomed speed.
“It’s disappointing to see New Zealand throw it away like this, but not surprising,” types a stern Edmund King. “For all the talk of how much the players were looking forward to this series, the spectacle of them drifting into the UK in twos and threes from their IPL franchises, underdone and clearly out of nick, speaks volumes. They’re missing Taylor more than we might have thought and there’s now a real, glaring fragility about the top order.
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