How tense is this?!!!Oh jimmy jimmy! ...awesome 4 ....2 to win
Just a bitHow tense is this?!!!
Nooooooo! Congrats NZ, think only 4th time in history a side has won after following on. Root and Foakes will be kicking themselves getting out to loose shots. Classic finish. Right off to bed.
A great game, but yes a mistake to enforce the follow on especially on the basis that Stokes couldn't bowl and the other fast bowlers were shattered.And the first time that the losers weren't Australia.......
I said it about twelve hours ago - what Stokes and McCullum have done for English cricket is extraordinary, but this was an unforced error.
Given the age and fitness of our pace attack, it was just a bad decision to enforce the follow-on. Gave NZ a chance to win the game, and draw the series, that we never should have offered them. Entertaining? Sure. But the greatest Test sides are ruthless as well. When you've got your boot on the throat of a good cricket team, you don't let them get up again.
Undoubtedly this England team are entertaining.Maybe it was a mistake to enforce the follow on but it made for a hell of a game, and that`s what a big chunk of spectator sport is about, entertainment.
Its not like we have swapped winning for being entertaining though is it? Lost 2 in 12 tests winning the others, where as before the change of leadership and approach we were losing tests regularly. We lost by the narrowest margin to draw an away series, no real disaster, especially compared to what was happening before.Undoubtedly this England team are entertaining.
But I thought teams were out to win. Not sure that any Australian team would ever choose entertainment against winning ( even though they are normally entertaining)
In the Ashes, Australia will love an entertaining series...which they win