Righto, time for me to knock this OBO on the head. Raf’s report from a soggy Cardiff will be along very shortly. Thanks for you company and onward to the T20s. Goodnight!
Here’s Charlie Dean:
Batting first would always be a bit trick on day like today. You’re trying to manage situations then adjusting so tempo is always hard, and we were not on the right end of the result
Alice and Freya batted remarkably well, when you have shortened overs you want to take it on and accelerate, and we lost key wickets as we were starting to do that.
Wickets were how were going to get back into the game, we wanted to keep Lauren bell a bit for the death but she bowled remarkably well up top. She is an exceptional talent, a shame we could not get over the line.
I have really enjoyed it (the captaincy) and the girls have supported me really well.”
The Captain’s speak – first up is Amelia Kerr:
Any time you win a game and it’s against a quality England side, it’s pleasing to be on the right side today.”
The three (Green, Halliday and Gaze) have been outstanding, at 40-3 and on a tricky wicket for them to absorb pressure, they looked pretty comfortable, the run-rate was under control. The way they played was brilliant to watch.”
These 50-over games are really important for us to hopefully qualify for the next 50-over World Cup. It’s nice to get the win today, the loss was close one but nice to be in a really good position as a side where I feel we’re competing with some of the best in the world.”
On Suzie Bates’ 184th and final ODI:
The cricket gods looked after us today with winning the toss and getting the win. For someone like Suzie, an absolute legend of the game, all she’s achieved, all the runs she’s scored, the stats speak for themselves.
I always say we’re the lucky ones to see the impact she has on the group and changing room. Every White Ferns player looked up to Suzie. She’s gonna be a huge loss when she steps away from the game fully. What an incredible person to have for me to share a changing room with for 10 years.”
The player of the series is New Zealand’s Maddy Green:
We were just trying to be positive and put pressure back on England, they bowled well up top and the wicket was doing a bit as was the ball through the air.
It was nice to bat with Brooke, she did a beautiful job for us.
To get the win is really cool for the girls, the team feels like we are in a really nice place and we want to take that on into the T20 series.”
The Player of the match is New Zealand’s Brooke Halliday:
The biggest thing was trying to build a partnership with Maddy Green. She’s someone I’ve batted with a lot both domestically and internationally so we said watch the ball and go from there. I think the perk of being left-handed is Maddy is right-handed at the other end so the bowler did have to adjust.
When we got to the 20 mark, we were comfortably ahead, the way Izzy Gaze went out there and released pressure and made sure we were well in front was really good.”
New Zealand win by 17 runs on DLS - ODI series finishes 1-1
The England players head out to sign some autographs for the plucky youngsters who have braved the conditions all day. That’s a nice touch. The large covers are being hauled across the outfield, they should call this now with rain still falling… and there it is – official confirmation that New Zealand win this rain reduced match.
Thanks Simon, Jim here back for the wash up. Forgive the pun. I think we are done here, Michael Atherton describes the scene in Cardiff as ‘bleak’. A tied series seems a fair result, both sides were off their best but will be all the better for the run out in English/Welsh conditions. Attention now turns to the three T20s starting in Derby on Wednesday. Three more T20s follow against India and then it is time for the Big One – a T20 World Cup on home soil.
All that’s to come, along with the official calling of this match in New Zealand’s favour. I’ll stick around for that and the post match presentations.
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Rain stops play
24.4 overs: New Zealand 141-4 (Halliday 42, Gaze 22) Now Lauren Bell does return. Halliday drives nicely through the covers, and Freya Kemp gets round, dives to cut it off … and deflects it away to the boundary. And four balls into the over the umpires do take them off – and that surely is that.
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24th over: New Zealand 135-4 (Halliday 36, Gaze 22) Sophie Ecclestone comes back. New Zealand need precisely 49, and have 54 balls to get them in (if they keep playing that long). New Zealand’s balcony is full now, of people in bobble hats or sheltering under towels – obviously nobody thought to bring a blanket.
23rd over: New Zealand 132-4 (Halliday 34, Gaze 21) Jacqueline Williams, one of the umpires, runs off before the over starts and Rose Dovey replaces her. Perhaps she needs a better waterproof. Dean continues. There seems little reason to keep saving Lauren Bell for later, with New Zealand well ahead of DLS par, apparently en route to victory, England needing a cluster of wickets and Bell by a margin the most threatening bowler. Perhaps, given that it is now apparently raining reasonably strongly, England would prefer not to risk potential slips, skids and injuries.
22nd over: New Zealand 125-4 (Halliday 33, Gaze 15) Gibson’s over starts with a wide, contains another wide, and another might have been heading the same way before Halliday just nudged it past Amy Jones with the toe of her bat and sent it running away for four. The rain is increasing and so is New Zealand’s total. The DLS par score is currently 112, so they’re well ahead.
21st over: New Zealand 117-4 (Halliday 28, Gaze 14) Filer continues, four singles are scored, and it’s umbrellas up in the stands now. The main camera from the Cathedral Road End is very misty – it looks like either a fog’s rolled in, or it’s been smeared with a dirty dishcloth. As there’s no evidence of fog from any other camera it’s presumably option one.
20th over: New Zealand 113-4 (Halliday 26, Gaze 12) Gaze nicely diverts to third for four, and having come in with the game nervously balanced is keeping her side comfortably on the right side of the equation. With the completion of this over we now officially have a game of cricket on our hands!
19th over: New Zealand 108-4 (Halliday 25, Gaze 8) Lauren Filer is back, a fourth over for England’s most expensive bowler. She sends one wide and short to Gaze, who crashes a cut past point for four. Next ball is drive to mid-off, where Bell misjudges its path, letting it come off her hand and run away for a couple. Eight off the over.
18th over: New Zealand 100-4 (Halliday 24, Gaze 1) New Zealand tick into triple figures, and are now just ahead of where they need to be on DLS. Two more overs are required for this to constitute a game.
WICKET! Green b Gibson 37 off 43 (New Zealand 97-4)
Maddy Green is bowled through the gate, and that is a big wicket in the context of this game, which is balanced on a DLS knife-edge!
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17th over: New Zealand 94-3 (Green 37, Halliday 21) A strangled lbw shout off the second ball, which I thought was very decent but the players didn’t really engage with and the commentators instantly dismissed. Turns out I was right, though, and had England reviewed Halliday would have been on her way. England could do with a couple of quick wickets to shake the feeling that New Zealand are in pretty good control of this run chase.
Meanwhile, with rain potentially imminent, the game will pause while the players take drinks.
16th over: New Zealand 90-3 (Green 35, Halliday 19) Dani Gibson comes into the attack. There is, I’m told, a bit of rain about and according to my rain radar there’s more to come, and they’re unlikely to be playing cricket in 45 minutes. Four more overs are required for this to constitute a game.
15th over: New Zealand 84-3 (Green 32, Halliday 17) Charlie Dean is by a margin the team’s most economical bowler, and England will be grateful that she’s still keeping a lid on it – just four off this over, and 12 off the three she’s bowled so far.
14th over: New Zealand 82-3 (Green 32, Halliday 15) Hello! Well then. Halliday sweeps Ecclestone for four and reverse-sweeps also for four. Add a misfield and a bit of smart running and New Zealand are ramping it up nicely. Thirteen off the over.
13th over: New Zealand 69-3 (Green 29, Halliday 5) Shot! Maddy Green is keeping New Zealand on the tracks singlehandedly at the moment. She drives a full ball from Dean through the covers for four.
I’m going to have a short break, Simon Burnton is here to oversee a clump of wickets/flurry of boundaries/delete as appropriate.
12th over: New Zealand 62-3 (Green 24, Halliday 4) A clever shot from Maddy Green who loosens the shackles a little with a paddle for four off Ecclestone. Four more! Green steps out and lofts Ecclestone over the top of mid on for another boundary. A single down the ground brings Halliday on strike. Ecclestone dots out the rest of the over.
11th over: New Zealand 53-3 (Green 15, Halliday 4) Dean starts with three dots, landing it on a pocket square. Green gets a single down to long on but that’s the only run off the over. The pressure cooker begins to hiss…
10th over: New Zealand 52-3 (Green 14, Halliday 4) New Zealand are behind where they need to be on the DLS by about ten runs. Sophie Ecclestone puts the squeeze on and Charlie Dean is going to join her from the opposite end. This is not going to be easy for New Zealand.
9th over: New Zealand 49-3 (Green 12, Halliday 3) Ouch! Lauren Bell is hit on the hand as Green rifles a drive back at her. She looks in some pain as it hit her where she already had some strapping. The physio is called for and she’s up and smiling again. Phew. Shot! Maddy Green times a pull shot and it cracks off the bat and away for four.
8th over: New Zealand 43-3 (Green 7, Halliday 3) Halliday clips for a couple but it’s a miserly first over from Ecclestone and that’s all New Zealand can muster off it.
7th over: New Zealand 41-3 (Green 7, Halliday 1) Brooke Halliday joins Green with plenty of work to do, she’s off the mark with a clip off the toes. Lauren Bell has her dander up and is hunting for wickets. That’s the powerplay done, we’re going to see some Sophie Ecclestone for the first time this series.
WICKET! Georgia Plimmer lbw b Bell 7 (New Zealand 40-3)
Another one! Lauren Bell has three LBWs and New Zealand are in all sorts in the Cardiff mizzle.
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6th over: New Zealand 40-2 (Plimmer 7, Green 7) There’s drizzle falling again in Cardiff and the wind is gusting. It seems to be putting Lauren Filer off as she sends down a very scruffy over… Green pulls a short ball for four, a leg side wide evades Amy Jones and runs away for four. Another wide and a couple more to Green and it’s an expensive 12 runs off the over.
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5th over: New Zealand 28-2 (Plimmer 7, Green 1) Maddy Green is the new batter, she looked in good touch up in Durham and her side need runs from her again now. She gets off the mark with an airy poke that flies past gully. Edgy stuff from the visitors in Cardiff.
WICKET! Melie Kerr lbw b Bell 1 (New Zealand 27-2)
Stone dead! Lauren Bell has Melie Kerr bang in front and Kerr chooses not to review! That’s the big wicket for England, Bell has two and New Zealand are under pressure now.
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4th over: New Zealand 27-1 (Plimmer 7, A Kerr 1) Filer drifts too straight and is clipped off the pads fine for four by Plimmer.
3rd over: New Zealand 21-1 (Plimmer 2, A Kerr 0) Amelia Kerr arrives in the middle, replacing her mentor and childhood hero.
WICKET! Suzie Bates lbw b Bell 12 (New Zealand 21-1)
Drop! Bell draws Suzie Bates into the drive with a lovely outswinger, it goes to Heather Knight at first slip and she spills the chance! Oh no, Bell can’t hid her disappointment.
That’s out though! The very next ball Bell pins Bates lbw and Bates walks off! A lovely moment as the crowd rise, England and New Zealand’s players pause to applaud her all the way off the field as she brings a two decade long international career to an end.
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2nd over: New Zealand 12-0 (Bates 10, Plimmer 1) New Zealand need to win to tie the series, Suzie Bates would love to finish with a win and she looks to have the bit between her teeth. She stands tall and pulls Lauren Filer through wide mid on for an imperious four!
1st over: New Zealand 6-0 (Bates 6, Plimmer 0) Bates edges a full ball and picks up four to get the White Ferns under way. Close! Bell gets her outswinger going, draws the drive and nearly takes the edge. Top bowling. Bates gets a couple with a dab down past third.
Here come the New Zealand batters, Suzie Bates walks out in her 184th and last ODI. Can she take a chunk out of this total for her side? Georgie Plimmer is at the other end. Lauren Bell will start with the ball for England. Play!
England make 181-7 (New Zealand set 184 to win on DLS)
Sophie Ecclestone arrives with free reign to have a swing. She clips through midwicket for a couple and takes one down the ground. Dean gets a single, Ecclestone bunts the final ball of the innings through cover for four!
Decent finish by England, the re-adjusted target is just three runs more though. New Zealand will be out for the chase shortly.
WICKET! Amy Jones c Sharp b J Kerr 27 (England 172-7)
Amy Jones falls in the last over, attempted slog sweep but falls foul of the long square boundaries at Cardiff. Izzy Sharp with a safe pair of hands in the deep.
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32nd over: England 172-6 (Jones 27, Dean 15) Mair returns and Jones greets her with another sublime drive through the covers for four. Charlie Dean then gets a full toss from Mair and she paddles it fine for four more! Twelve off the over for England.
31st over: England 160-6 (Jones 21, Dean 9) Three singles and a couple from England as they rotate strike well off Amelia Kerr. Shot! Amy Jones drives in-to-out over extra cover. Lovely timing and placement. That’s the area Charlotte Edwards wants her players to be able to access more of. Amy Jones showing how to do it in style.
30th over: England 149-6 (Jones 12, Dean 7) Amy Jones misses a sweep off Bates but the ball beats Gaze behind the stumps and runs away for four. Four more singles make it eight off the over. Three overs to go, England need some boundaries.
29th over: England 141-6 (Jones 10, Dean 5) More like it from Amy Jones, she powers a drive through the off side off Patel. England need all the runs they can muster, that cluster of wickets really knocked them off their stride.
28th over: England 134-6 (Jones 4, Dean 4) Missed run out! Suzie Bates fluffs the throw from the deep, had she taken it cleanly then Amy Jones was well short of her ground. Bates is fuming with herself, last ODI or not.
27th over: England 127-6 (Jones 2, Dean 0) Skipper Charlie Dean arrives in the middle to join Amy Jones. Patel rattles through a wicket maiden.
WICKET! Dani Gibson b Patel 2 (England 127-6)
Gibson goes cheaply! Backs away to leg and misses the carve through the off, Patel rattling the stumps. England losing all their momentum in Cardiff.
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26th over: England 127-5 (Jones 2, Gibson 1) England now have two new batters at the crease and seven overs to get as many as possible.
WICKET! Alice Capsey c Sharp b Mair 45 (England 125-6)
Two quick wickets! The partnership is broken and then demolished. Capsey tries to slap Sharp through the off side but gets it too high on the bat. That feels like a big wicket for England’s hopes of a challenging target, Capsey was well set.
25th over: England 123-4 (Capsey 44, Gibson 0) Dani Gibson joins Capsey. She defends her fist ball from Amelia Kerr watchfully.
WICKET! Freya Kemp c Mair b AC Kerr 20 (England 123-4)
Caught at long on! Kemp tries to take Kerr down the ground for a big one but doesn’t get the connection.
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24th over: England 117-3 (Capsey 39, Kemp 20) Capsey in particular has been busy since the resumption. She uses her crease well to create room to carve Patel away for a couple. A glide past point brings up the 50 partnership between this pair. Seven runs in all off the over.
23rd over: England 110-3 (Capsey 33, Kemp 19) Amelia Kerr tightens things up for her side, just a couple of runs off her latest. There are ten overs left in the innings now, England have seven wickets left and probably need to look at opening their shoulders.
22nd over: England 108-3 (Capsey 32, Kemp 18) Capsey punches for four off the back foot. Four singles make it eight off the over and the hundred is up for England too – the home side have been the more dynamic of the two since the resumption.
21st over: England 99-3 (Capsey 25, Kemp 16) Another productive over for England, seven runs pocketed off Amelia Kerr’s third over. We’re going to have more spin with Nensi Patel thrown the ball for the next over.
20th over: England 92-3 (Capsey 23, Kemp 12) Rosemary Mair replace Illing. Freya Kemp gets on the front foot and drives down the ground for a couple before taking a single to mid on. Capsey take a single to point and Kemp gets two more into the deep. England are busy and hustling between the wickets.
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19th over: England 86-3 (Capsey 22, Kemp 7) England’s total will be recalculated by DLS, it’ll be interesting to see how they approach the next 15 or so overs they have left in their innings. Kemp and Capsey rotate the strike nicely off Amelia Kerr’s looping leggies, five singles off the over.
18th over: England 81-3 (Capsey 20, Kemp 4) It’s Bree Illing with the ball in hand for the White Ferns, she struggles with her line initially, firing two wides down the leg side. Capsey and Kemp both take singles into the off side. Cricket has broken out in Cardiff!
Right then, take two. The players take to the field, its going to be a 33 over game. Freya Kemp and Alice Capsey are in the middle for England. Play!
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Play to restart at 3.45pm
Good news, we’ll have a reduced overs game of 32 overs per side starting at 3.55pm. All eyes to the skies now to hope it remains clear in Cardiff.
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Still raining in Cardiff, apparently they can still get a game on if they are out there by 5.30pm. So the wait goes on.
May as well get stuck into some FA Cup Final action with Rob Smyth while we wait for the rain to relent:
It looks to be brightening up a little in Cardiff so there is hope they could get back out there this afternoon. I’ll post any updates as we get them.
For any club cricketers out there creaking into another Saturday fixture… let Nigel Martyn* be your inspiration.
*Yep, that one.
Unfortunately we will now lose overs to the rain having had an hour delay to the start of play. Cardiff isn’t alone in languishing under leaden skies, there’s plenty of rain around the shires but Tanya also has some play to supply updates on. Not jealous at all.
Rain stops play
They’ve gone off, covers on. Now we wait.
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17th over: England 77-3 (Capsey 19, Kemp 3) Amelia Kerr brings herself on for a twirl in the gloom. Her second ball is a drag down and Capsey doesn’t miss out, pulling away behind square for four. Capsey then cuts for three, Freya Kemp looks to be hobbling a bit, running in damp conditions is never nice. Time for drinks… I’m not sure we’ll be back for much longer after them mind.
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16th over: England 68-3 (Capsey 11, Kemp 2) Knight couldn’t get through to what feels like an inevitable rain delay any moment. Freya Kemp arrives in the swirling rain and gets off the mark with two off her toes. Umpires twitchy but keeping them out there, New Zealand rattling through their deliveries to maximise these conditions.
WICKET! Heather Knight c Gaze b Illing 28 (England 66-3)
That’s a big moment! With rain falling and in increasingly murky conditions Heather Knight gets a thin edge behind and walks!
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15th over: England 66-2 (Knight 28, Capsey 11) It is very gloomy out there now, not nice conditions for batting. Rosemary Mair may as well be licking her lips.
14th over: England 61-2 (Knight 27, Capsey 8) Jess Kerr beats Knight on the outside edge but the old pro lines up the next ball properly and drives down the ground classily for four. Rain falling but the umpires are staying out there for now.
13th over: England 56-2 (Knight 23, Capsey 7) Mair serves up a full bunger to Capsey and she slaps it away through midwicket for four.
12th over: England 50-2 (Knight 22, Capsey 2) Jess Kerr switches ends and the keeper is up to the stumps. Pressure on and some spots of rain falling. Capsey gets forward and picks up a couple through cover to get off the mark. We might be in for some rain unfortunately…
11th over: England 47-2 (Knight 21, Capsey 0) Both openers back in the hutch, here’s Alice Capsey at number four.
WICKET! Jodi Grewcock c Gaze b Mair 10 (England 47-2)
There is another wicket! Grewcock aims a drive to Mair but a thin edge is held just above the turf by Gaze behind the stumps. Grewcock lingers for a moment before hauling herself from the middle.
10th over: England 45-1 (Grewcock , Knight 20) England have done well to only lose one wicket in the first ten overs, Knight has looked the most comfortable at the crease, she opens the face to guide Illing away for four more past point.
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9th over: England 39-1 (Grewcock 9, Knight 14) Shot! Mair gives width with her last delivery and Grewcock gets her first boundary with a flash through point.
8th over: England 33-1 (Grewcock 5, Knight 13) Both teams are scrapping away, plenty in the pitch but a fast outfield sees value for shots. A first change coming for New Zealand, Rosemary Mair is replacing Jess Kerr.
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7th over: England 30-1 (Grewcock 4, Knight 12) Heather Knight looks in fine touch, Kerr strays onto the pads and is worked away with aplomb to the midwicket fence.
6th over: England 25-1 (Grewcock 3, Knight 8) Another probing over from Illing sees Grewcock nick off but wide of the slips and safe.
5th over: England 21-1 (Grewcock 2, Knight 8) Five dots from Kerr but the sixth is a juicy half volley that Knight strokes away for four. You can’t bowl there to Heather.
4th over: England 17-1 (Grewcock 2, Knight 4) Shot! Knight pounces on some width from Illing and square drives for four in the Cardiff gloom.
3rd over: England 11-1 (Grewcock 2, Knight 0) Jodi Grewcock struggles to lay a bat on Jess Kerr’s outswingers, playing and missing at a couple before nicking one that just lands short of Gaze behind the stumps. Grewcock then drives compactly for a couple down the ground. Hang about, the TV replay shows that Grewcock actually got a feather on the very first ball of the over that was caught by Gaze behind the stumps. Neither bowler nor keeper appealed but there is a clear spike. Curious and Curiouser.
2nd over: England 9-1 (Grewcock 0, Knight 0) Heather Knight arrives early into the piece. Illing is searching for the pronounced movement and slings down a couple of wides. Knight is solid in defence to a couple of balls on the stumps and thats the over, New Zealand on top in tricky conditions for batting.
WICKET! Emma Lamb c Gaze b Illing 7 (England 7-1)
Bree Illing starts from the other end and her first ball is over pitched and driven away nicely by Lamb for four. Gone! Lamb nibbles at a ball that holds its line and a thin edge is taken behind the stumps by Izzy Gaze. Decent ball from Illing and England lose an early one.
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1st over: England 3-0 (Lamb 3, Grewcock 0) Big swing early up, Kerr gets one to hoop into Lamb’s pad but she’s outside the line. More of the same follows, the ball drifting in from waaaay outside the off stump initially. After four dots Lamb opens England’s account with a drive through cover for three.
Here come the players! Leaden skies in Cardiff but crucially no rain falling at the moment. Emma Lamb and Jodi Grewcock will open the batting, their powder blue kit looking luminous in the lunchtime murk. We haven’t lost any overs as yet but will start to from now on if there ary further delays.
Right, Jess Kerr has the ball in hand. Let’s play!
Charlie Dean admits that England weren’t at their best in Durham and that it is tricky to balance the side with a T20 World Cup looming. “It was important to show that grit (In Durham). To get over the line was really important.”
Lauren Filer and Jodi Grewcock come in for Maia Bouchier and Tilly Corteen-Coleman.
New Zealand win the toss and choose to bowl first
There are some ominous looking grey clouds in the background but for now it is fine and we should get some play in. Charlie Dean admits she would have bowled first in these conditions too.
New Zealand are unchanged, today will be Suzie Bates’ 184th and last ODI. What a player she has been for the White Ferns. “Probably New Zealand’s best ever, and the best team-mate you could ask for.” says Amelia Kerr. “My greatest mentor since coming into the White Ferns.”
Teams:
England: Emma Lamb, Jodi Grewcock, Heather Knight, Alice Capsey, Freya Kemp, Amy Jones (wk), Dani Gibson, Charlie Dean (c), Sophie Ecclestone, Lauren Filer, Lauren Bell
New Zealand: Suzie Bates, Georgia Plimmer, Melie Kerr (c), Maddy Green, Brooke Halliday, Izzy Gaze (wk), Izzy Sharp, Jess Kerr, Nensi Patel, Rosemary Mair, Bree Illing
Ali has been casting his eye over the men’s Test set up with a few weeks to go until the first Test of the summer against New Zealand at Lord’s:
Toss at 11:40 and scheduled start for 12pm
Good news! If the rain stays away we’ll be underway in a little over half an hour with no overs lost. Big IF but we’ll take it.
The inspection has taken place out in the middle and it currently isn’t raining. We haven’t had any official confirmation of a toss and potential start time yet though…
It is brightening up in Cardiff, the covers are off and the stumps are being put in place. Promising signs ahead of the inspection in five minutes.
Time to get acquainted with one Douwe Egberts. While we wait for news, why not have a read of this week’s Spin:
Tanya is on the County Blog tools, not everywhere is as wet as Cardiff thankfully.
There’s an inspection due at 11:15am. We have an hour before we start to lose overs, Ian Ward and Tash Farrant have got their cagoule and winter coat on respectively. They seem to be hopeful we’ll get some play at some point.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to the third ODI between England and New Zealand from Cardiff. After squeaking over the line by one wicket in Durham last weekend, despite a ropey display in the field (once again), England would have been hoping for the same result but with a more polished and clinical performance in Northampton in the week.
Sadly, the inclement English spring weather put the kibosh on any play in the second ODI and today’s match in Cardiff looks to be a hostage to the Welsh weather gods too.
Sunshine and showers this morning lead to a more murky outlook on the weather radar but I’ll be here to bring you any and all updates as they happen. We were due to have a toss any moment now but the covers are firmly in place in and the coin flipping has officially been delayed.
Hmmm, it could be one of those days folks. Fingers crossed we get some play in and can get a game on ‘mongst the showers.
As ever, you can get in touch at the link on the left flank of this page. Thoughts and theories most welcome, especially if the rain continues to fall…
