1st Test NZ v England

[Dravid]

hah, pathetic england...

[Laaloo]

abe ye patel saaala apni judwa raha hai saale wkt lena phir seee

[Dravid]

and thats that nzl wins LMFAOO

[Laaloo]

Oram to Panesar, out Caught by McCullum!! Oram had one ball at Monty and he's done it! Comes round the wicket and hits a good length, in the channel, Panesar pokes forward and McCullum holds on to the dying edge! Panesar c McCullum b Oram 8(35) [4s-2] yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Rampant New Zealand crush England 54.6 Oram to Panesar, OUT, that's it! Oram has finished it off, Panesar prodding away defensively, gets the thin edge and McCullum takes the catch MS Panesar c McCullum b Oram 8 (36b 2x4 0x6) SR: 22.22 YESSSSSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

[Cricketics]

Well Done Kiwiz.. U Have Made Me Proud Finish Them 3-0

[retterimp]

"MIGHTY" ENGLAND EMPIRE CRUSHED AGAIN :yay: AND MAY THEY BE CRUSHED AGAIN AND AGAIN :yay:

[Feed]

New Zealand thrash woeful England New Zealand consign England to one of their most ignominious defeats in recent history, winning the first Test by 189 runs. More... First Test, Hamilton: New Zealand 470 & 177-9d beat England 348 & 110 by 189 runs By Oliver Brett Mills got the ball rolling when Alastair Cook edged behind New Zealand's unheralded seam attack consigned England to one of their most ignominious defeats in recent history, winning the first Test by 189 runs. The Kiwis declared on 177-9 to leave England needing 300 from 81 overs but Kyle Mills stunned the tourists with four wickets in his first six overs. With the score 36-4 at lunch, England tried to salvage a draw but Chris Martin (3-33) had other ideas. England totalled a pathetic 110 on a flat track, with Ian Bell 54 not out. After starting his England coaching career with four Test wins on the bounce, Peter Moores has now presided over a winless streak of seven matches, including losses to India, Sri Lanka and now New Zealand - a team England were expected to beat in this series. But only two Tests remain, the first of those starting on Thursday, for Michael Vaughan's men to salvage something from a tour that is turning into something of a nightmare. Ryan Sidebottom's terrific display with the ball on day four, which included a joyously celebrated hat-trick, had left the tourists harbouring realistic hopes of victory overnight. Sidebottom dismissed Daniel Vettori to finish with 10-149 - a tremendous effort in benign conditions - as New Zealand batted for just seven overs, before calling a halt. But his effort was supported by so few other English players as a succession of batsmen perished as much to poor batting as good seam bowling from Mills and Martin. As England began their chase, Alastair Cook hit three boundaries, but did not look in control and he departed to a defensive outside edge, with the total on 19, in the fourth over. Mills was getting just enough seam movement and though England should have been good enough to deal with it, the bowler reaped the rewards of a disciplined, probing spell. Vaughan played around one that nipped back a touch and was leg-before, Andrew Strauss edged to the wicket-keeper and Kevin Pietersen played no shot to one that flicked his pad just outside off-stump. The contest had become a battle of grim survival on England's part. With Bell and Paul Collingwood digging in either side of lunch, hope remained for the tourists. Michael Vaughan was the second of Mills's four victims But Collingwood eventually played back to a Vettori delivery he should have been forward to, and chopped on to his stumps. Though Bell was playing nicely, with two neat drives for four just after lunch off Jeetan Patel, New Zealand now began the second wave of dismissals. Martin took care of Tim Ambrose and Sidebottom, who faced just seven balls between them, and Matthew Hoggard blocked 21 balls before edging a drive to Brendon McCullum. Then Steve Harmison, in possibly his last appearance on tour, edged Patel to slip. Bell and Monty Panesar - who hit a lovely straight drive off Vettori for four - showed just how good conditions were as they added 33 for the final wicket in 12 overs, the most profitable partnership of the innings. Bell reached his half-century with the second of two driven sixes off Patel. But it was merely delaying the inevitable, and New Zealand could finally kick off their celebrations when Panesar edged Jacob Oram behind to give McCullum a fifth catch before tea had been taken. Unsurprisingly, the Black Caps made no changes to their 13-man squad for the second Test in Wellington.

[King]

That was an awesome game of cricket although the first 3 days were not as exciting. NZ batting in the first inning was exciting but England batted like they had no chance of winning this test match. They score at 2 per over for about day and a half. It was pathetic of England and it drove away paying public from attending the test match. It was good NZ had a collapse last night. It made today all the more interesting and the much vaunted England batting collapsed like a pack of cards. NZ bowling was top class and it showed what playing positive cricket can do to a team. England were terrible and batted as if they were Zimbabwe trying to save the test match right from the start. Botham even said watch the paint dry was more exciting than watching England bat. Even on the last day England hardly looked interested in any runs. They are still to get over their ODI series loss and they look out of sorts in NZ conditions. It was great to see NZ play two spinners. It was truly a team effort and every contributed their bit like they always do. I had thought the current NZ team is no match for England prior their visit but am glad it wasn't Sri Lanka or South Africa visiting NZ this year.

[Kartikey]

I saw the 1st 4 wickets going down, excellent bowling by Mills. And unless KP becomes his old self, Eng will find it really hard to fight back. And Steve Harmison, well the less said the better...................

[Dhondy]

Placid pitch, match heading nowhere. NZ picked two spinners, England one, with the two left armers having won wide acclaim for their art. Stage set for a spinfest then? Think again. One seamer brought the match alive with his swing, two thers cut the Poms to ribbons with their seam movement and bounce, extracted out of an apparently comatose pitch. And none of them even breached 85 kph, the threshold considered as decent pace by most. That's the genius of seam bowling for you. As I never tire of saying, it takes the pitch out of the equation. India has not one, but three bowlers who regularly approach or breach 90 mph. Hope the lessons of Hamilton are not lost on Indian selectors.

[ImranR]

Can't believe England collapsed like that AGAIN.

[Sachinism]

england are a joke they keep going round, talking about how good they are they surprise everyone by having a decent series in SL and then they get murdered in NZ

[kumble_rocks]

England humiliation has been complete . Well done Kiwis ! Shame bond is not being missed...

[Laaloo]

add to the fact that they lost the odi series too now they're really in the bottom shelf

[Zakhmi]

Lloyd: England need a kick up their arse "England have been very disappointing, and a lot is to do with the mental make-up of the players. It's time that the management shook the players up and brought in some change. For New Zealand, it was a clinical performance and the captain Daniel Vettori will be proud of his boys" - David Lloyd Click here to listen

[f.b.m]

Yeah, but... Ashes 2005, Ashes 2005 Ashes 2005 Actually, this inning was a 28 run improvement on their performance in SL.

[Ram]

Undoubtedly, one of THE most listless performance I have ever seen from an English team. All of their top 6 batsman have averages over 40 in test cricket and yet, they couldnt match the performance of a batting order that didnt have half as much pedigree as it had. Pietersen has been a MASSIVE disappointment in the last one year. For someone who is as talented as him, he has hardly done anything of worth in the last 12 months. If England wants to have ANY chance of coming back into the series, it needs Pietersen to fire in the middle order. Its no co-incidence that the fortunes of the England cricket team rise and fall with him. And My God, dont England miss Flintoff or what. England is still a good team, they just need some of their key players to come back to form, or from injury.