Match Thread-England v New Zealand, Group F, Durban

[Nocturnal]

England v New Zealand, Group F, Durban

England team
DL Maddy, VS Solanki, KP Pietersen, captainPD Collingwood, OA Shah, A Flintoff, LJ Wright, AD Mascarenhas, CP Schofield, SCJ Broad, JM Anderson

New Zealand team
BB McCullum, L Vincent, PG Fulton, RL Taylor, SB Styris, JDP Oram, CD McMillan, captainDL Vettori, SE Bond, MR Gillespie, CS Martin

[Nocturnal]

England won the toss and elected to field first

[Nocturnal]

Brendon McCullum out

[Sohel]

25-2 after 3.3 ... great start from England in this must-win match ...

[Sohel]

Taylor GONE after that booming 6 ... NZL in trouble ...

[Nocturnal]

NZ-25/3 after 3.5 Ov, bad start :(

[Sohel]

Colly bowling well ... NZL is deeper $H** now ... 40-4 after 9

[Sohel]

DMas to Styris ... HUGE 6 literally out of the park ... dang ! ... 46-4 ... and another one out of the park ... 52-4 ... new ball again please ... and another one, but stays inside this time ... 58-4 ... then a dot ball ... hot dang !!!

[Nocturnal]

Styris- good shot :) ......ok another one...two out of the park :) ...

here goes the 3rd one :) ...that's it for this over.

[Sohel]

60-4 after 10 ... NZL clawing back into the match in sty(ris)le ... cheese

[Sohel]

Styris bites the dust ... 91-5 after 13 ... La Gordita, firmly seated behind the NZL dugout, goes over the scales for "God save our precious queen" ... Kiri Te Kanawa breaks into a lamenting aria ... tears are jerked as she's removed from the stadium ...

[Sohel]

140-7 ... Mac 1 took NZL's hope back to the dugout with him before that ...

[cricket_pagol]

two quick wickets of McMillan and Oram destroys the possibility of a high score by NZ

[Sohel]

Bond GONE ... 145-8

[Nocturnal]

152-8 - 19 ov

[Sohel]

164-9 after 20 ... good recovery by NZL ... but is it ... enough ??? ... :umm:

[Nocturnal]

NZ- 164/9 after 20 ov. Decent score.

[Baundule]

Enough for NZ to win it.

[Sohel]

DV does not DV8 from the plan to contain England to easy singles ... the pressure keeps building up and Colly succumbs to Mac 1's superlative efforts ... great captaincy ... 87-3

[Sohel]

DV beats KP ... then DV gets FF ... 104-5 ... England manage to generate excitement yet again ... BRAVO !

[cricket_dorshok]

Eng is losing their plot!!

[Sohel]

Lucky Luke in to gunsling his team to victory ??? ... a 4 and then a ^ !!! 118-5 ... momentum shifts a little ... Kiri livid ...

[nzfan]

I hope the black caps win but it seems like Eng at the moment
i hate losing to england , i think they are mediocre considering the background at first class level the players get

[Sohel]

... i think they are mediocre considering the background at first class level the players get

Bang on target ...

[Sohel]

Shah going ape ... NZL need an Ayatollah ... 137-5 ... 28 TWF 19

[Sohel]

Oram drops Shah ... tough chance

[Sohel]

Vik and Maddy's freak inclusion did it for England if they manage to win ... not sure that they will

[Sohel]

Taylor drops the match ... La Gordita starts singing that aweful imperial anthem ... Kiri passes out wherever she was taken to by stadium security ... Liz II giggling away ... good win for England ... cheerio !

[nzfan]

I think that catch just lost it for us:(

[Sohel]

Ayatollah strikes with that run-out of Shah ... NZL mute La Gordita all of a sudden ... did she sing too soon ??? ... Kiri is revived ...

[BanCricFan]

C'mon England! C'mon England!

[Sohel]

Hahaha ... DMas blows it ... England IS England ... love their complexities

[cricket_dorshok]

England need 20 runs in 12 balls

[BanCricFan]

Dmitri in...

C'mon son!

[cricket_dorshok]

and Mascarenhas gone

[BanCricFan]

Are we choking yet again?

[Sohel]

Scoffie Kapali takes a single ... Luke BOS ... skied and caught ... WTG England !!!

[Sohel]

La Gordita kicked out of the park for singing too soon, pase lo que pase ... Kiri clears her throat ...

[cricket_dorshok]

haha, England er tire ese tori dubtese!

[Sohel]

MG to Scoffie Kapali ... 16 TWF 6 ... ball 1 ... wide ... again ball 1 ... 1 ... 14 TWF 5 ...

[nzfan]

Come on Gillespie do me proud

[Sohel]

Luke Kapali takes a single ... 13 TWF 4 ...

[Miraz]

Bye bye England, the Twenty20 specialists of the tournament.

[Sohel]

11 TWF 3 ... MG to Kapali ... 2 ... weak throw ... 9 TWF 2 ... Kiri ready ... LIZ II can't breathe ... another single from Kapali ... 8 from 1 ... cheerio !!!

[Nocturnal]

and NZ win by 5 runs. good game. :)

[nzfan]

Yay blackcaps into semi finals

[BanCricFan]

Come on Gillespie do me proud

Congrats!!!

[Sohel]

haha, England er tire ese tori dubtese!

Kiri Te Kanawa breaks into that perfect soprano ... but wait wait ... que es esta cancion? ... creo que es en Bangla : -

Ar kautokal bhashbo halay, dukher shari gaiya
Halar jaunom gyalo ghate ghate, torikhan dubaiyare halar
Torikhan dubaiya ...

WTG DV and NZL !!! ... on to the semis ... :D

[BanCricFan]

England almost had it in the bag! Choked again in an world cup encounter.

[Sohel]

Move over ESE, there's a new CHOKER in town ???

[Baundule]

Eng and India should now confirm their plane ticket.

[Sohel]

Eng and India should now confirm their plane ticket.

Yep, the good old BAT back to sweet England ...

[Puck]

it's all those lapdancer's fault..

[Sohel]

it's all those lapdancer's fault..

Must've been some lapdance ...