Cricket World Cup - Match 9 - New Zealand vs England - 20 Feb 02:00 p.m. NZT

[Wolfie33]

Black Caps vs England
A big game for our boys tomorrow at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

This a Day/Night game, the weather is looking good, & we have won 4 out of the last 6 games at the Cake Tin 

So, bring it on!! Kick off is 2pm

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[Rex]

new zealand
thnx

[Phil]

NZ

[Martin4Jay]

Tie

[Hank13]

NZ for me  i hope

[Wolfie33]

Black Caps, Black Caps, Black Caps !!!!!!

[gabba]

Hmmm. Can I wait and see? Guess not!

NZ - but just and only because of their home advantage

[JennyLeez]

New Zealand please

[Smudge]

New Zealand please thank you

[Mark]

I be the odd one out and go for England.

[Wolfie33]

RESULT

Well now, what can you say, huh?? Except maybe . . . . (holler) Black Caps, Black Caps, Black Caps etc etc

So, England won the toss, & thought . . . right oh boyoo, we gonna bat.
Yep, good idea, put a decent score up & hope for a bit of dew early evening . . . . great plan!!

However, our bowlers had a somewhat different idea about how things would go.   
Tim Southee snared both openers by the 7th over & Boult grabbed another in the 14th, score 57 for 3 down.

We then had a few more overs by Vettori, Milne, Boult & Anderson.
Vettori took Morgans wicket courtesy of a diving catch from Milne. 26 overs gone & the Poms were 104 for 4.
What followed was absolutely sublime.
Until now, Tim Southee had bowled 5 overs for 2 wickets and 23 runs.
His next 4 overs yielded 5 wickets for 10 runs. An absolutely brilliant period of swing bowling & almost unplayable!!
He finished with 7 wickets for 33 runs from 9 overs   
So, the Poms at 119 for 9 down . . . .  then Milne quickly mopped up the tail , & all out for 123 in the 34th.

If you haven't heard, our man Brendon knocked off most of the runs in reply, with 77 runs off 39 balls.
He broke his own record for the fastest 50 in a World Cup match.   

So we've put the Poms to the sword, and rather easily too!!

Match    1st Match, Pool A: New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Christchurch, Feb 14, 2015 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
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18         Valerie
15         Rex,  mark,  Smudge
12         Martin4Jay,  Hank13,  Phil
  3         gabba
(but I need to check all that in the morning when eye focus should be a spot sharper!!)

and Welcome gabba!!