I was there, and I agree with Aggers, an awful performance.
Sara and I went to the “Cake Tin” to watch the game in relatively hopeful moods, given that they had done well on the Twenty-2o stuff, if that means anything, and were playing a Black Caps team in apparent trouble with “rebuilding”. It would appear that is all rubbish and we have been jinxed again, or laid the jinx. What a terrible game to watch. I thought I has been punshed enough in this life when I went to Australia last year and witnessed some awful test matches. I have obviously sinned more than I realised (ps. it is Lent so explains the tone).
I was so bored, no action from English batsmen other than suicidal running. Apparently it was the pitch that beat them-it being too slow. However, one would think they may have realised that before the innings was over, and responded accordingly, as perhaps the Kiwis did-successfully.
We were not in a position to dull the pain with beer as we are off the “pop”-another Lenten association. Anyway, we were informed by other English folks in the ground that it did not work anyway.
Lets hope things improve by the time the Tests come around, otherwise “Rat” will be doing lots of psychotherapy with the”boys”. Possibly me also!
agreed…totally pathetic. Lets hope we can beat Italy in 6 Nations after even worse capitulation last week !! Colly helpfully said after game that if they had scored nearer 200 they might have won !!…….Dohh !
update….no better in rugby beither…rudderless !!
further update….completely useless