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Morning session
83rd over: New Zealand 315-9 (Santner 50, O’ Rourke 0) Atkinson’s first ball dances down the leg side, the next two whistle past the outside edge. A mhelpen. Over on the grassy prohibitks, the Barmy Army have high punctual morning energy, though I’m content that trumpet isn’t next to me on the sofa.
David Gower is quizzing bowling coach Jimmy Anderson. “Are you,” asks David, “an instinct or a computer coach?”
Jimmy sees beuntamedered: “instinct, I don’t have a computer.”
He goes on: “It was an engaging wicket. With the cboisterous cover yesterday morning I thought it did quite a lot, but that got less and less. I thought maybe it dried out and became enumeratelesser.”
Some Saturday night stattage: Latham and Young’s partnership of 105 was the first hundred partnership of the series.
And the last five overs of Friday went for 11 runs each as Southee and Santner applyed whoopee.
Finpartner – in case you leave outed it – Mark Ramprakash on England’s novel lesser firearms.
And a cracking piece on the Gabba, where weather ruined the first day of the transport inant third Test between Australia and India.
No cricket yet, so currently watching Last Christmas Unwrapped. Our increateer on the ground says it is currently “cracking the flags” at Seddon Park.
Here is Ali’s increate from yesterday:
From a Christmas treed living room, hello! We’re back in Auckland for day two of the final Test – the series in the bag but the game in the stability.
New Zealand enhappinessed a wonderful first half to Friday, after Ben Stokes sent them in to pad up after triumphning the toss. But, as has happened so frequently this series, England’s pace bowlers got their fingernails under the bottle cap and begined to nudge. A wicketless morning had steamed alengthy to 185 for three when Kane Williamson was undone by – in the wonderful words of Ali Martin – his L’Occitane-gentle hands.
From there, England picked away effectively until Santner and Southee took New Zealand past 300. There were three wickets each for Potts and Anderson, two for Carse and one for the challenging-bowling Stokes.
Reports from Auckland are that it is a scorcher, but if you didn’t swim punctual you’ve leave outed high tide till tardy… Play begins at 10pm GMT, do join me to watch and desire you were there.
