Over-by-over report: Will England build on their first-Test success when they face the Black Caps at Trent Bridge?
“that in the space of nine Tests England have twice seen the opposition captain ruled out of a match less than 12 hours before the start due to a Covid-related issue: first Pat Cummins in Adelaide and now Kane Williamson in Nottingham.” I seem to remember that in Adelaide it didn’t make a whole lot of difference.right on cue. “Great memories as a kid watching John at the MCG and shouting Howzat after every ball. All day. Which for an 8 year old was utter bliss.
England stick with the original XI from Lord’s, so Jack Leach is back after his bang on the head and Matt Parkinson reverts to carrying the drinks. 1 Latham , 2 Young, 3 Conway, 4 Nicholls, 5 Mitchell, 6 Blundell , 7 Bracewell, 8 Jamieson, 9 Southee, 10 Henry, 11 Boult.1 Lees, 2 Crawley, 3 Pope, 4 Root, 5 Bairstow, 6 Stokes , 7 Foakes , 8 Potts, 9 Leach, 10 Broad, 11 Anderson.with admirable candour. But he doesn’t sound too gutted, observing that the pitch is dry as well as having a green tinge.
It feels as if it might have been way back before the pandemic, but it was actually in February last year, in India. And England went on to lose the series 3-1. That was the moment when things began to go badly wrong for Joe Root and Chris Silverwood. Now, thanks to Root’s first-ever fourth-innings Test hundred, things have gone instantly right for Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum.
Can England keep it up? There is, as ever, no way of telling. The first Test was a rollercoaster, or rather a ride on the ghost train, with a ghastly apparition – the spectacular batting collapse – always liable to loom out of nowhere. The only things that were really different under the new regime were the fielding and the mood music, although the decision to give Matty Potts a debut paid off handsomely.
New Zealand, meanwhile, have troubles of their own. They’ve lost a Test to England, for the first time in seven years, and now they’ve lost their captain too, as Kane Williamson has Covid. This may not be as much of a blow as you might think, since this quiet genius has been bang out of form.
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