Back in the days when cricket grounds provided shade for patrons instead of just for ponces who’s sole motivation is the opportunity to tell people what to do and sheilas who never played men’s cricket, scoring 300 on the first day of a New Zealand test match was considered indecent haste.
Having noted the dropped catches on day two I suggest that should still be the case.
Careless shot selection by a large number of NZ Batsmen ensured from lunch yesterday The Poms had use of the a wicket at it’s best – I expect that to continue this morning. We bowled okay initially but there seemed a lot of leg side stuff later in the day and too many no balls..