91st over: New Zealand 329-4 (Mitchell 85, Blundell 73) Anderson is busy, busy. Mitchell raises three through the covers before Anderson has an lbw attraction that falls down.
An email arrives from Finbar Anslow “I’m recovering from a knee change, so please cancel me as a possible concussion substance. A few questions, I have a theory that people who haven’t actually played a lot of cricket, like me, when they dream of the game, tend to dream of playing brilliantly, so logically people with experience would be inclined to dream of a nightmarish performance. Is that justified? “
90th over: New Zealand 326-4 (Mitchell 82, Blundell 73) The wind blew and Broad’s hair fluttered up like a watercress growing from the shell of a boiled egg. Blundell bends wide and skillfully cuts the slips for four. A few cute inswingers don’t win a prize.
89th over: New Zealand 320-4 (Mitchell 82, Blundell 67) Anderson continues where he left off yesterday – although, according to the radio, he and Broad swapped ends. Touch the swing and it’s a maiden.
88th over: New Zealand 320-4 (Mitchell 82, Blundel 67) Stuart Broad is, a white Rambo-style headband on his forehead, fingers of oil slipping his hands into his pockets as the wind blows through them. Just a single from him.
OBO’s first bell of the day:
@tjaldred Good morning Tanya. My biggest fear today (there are many others) would be that Root will be so annoyed by Mitchell’s release that he will try too hard to fix the bat and get away cheaply. If that happens, we have a good chance of continuing.
– Brendan Large (@brendanlarge) June 11, 2022
The anthems explode and Jimmy Anderson repeatedly throws a beach ball on the ground.
England missed four catches yesterday – can they be fixed today? We can watch these drops in their entirety, although Graham Swan says it’s very difficult to get caught in the gaps of Trent Bridge when the sun goes down.
I found this statistic from last year – now the Lord’s looks like a deviation.
As of early 2019, the English slip cordon is statistically the worst in the world in terms of catches. More than 1 out of 4 is dropped. #ENGvIND
– CricViz Analyst (@cricvizanalyst) August 6, 2021
And a few residual jokes about cricket and philosophy:
Tom Morgan: “What do the philosophers XI do when the ball grows old? They turn to Spinoza.
and Phil Keegan: “I don’t have any jokes about philosophy, but I do have some jokes about phonology if anyone is interested, which is probably just fellow English teacher maniacs. Anyway: “How to contact a French expert in phonetics? Phone – ihm. In fact, I’m not sure this works in print. You have to say “phoneme” with an exaggerated French accent on the second syllable. I’ll get a coat. “
Just to iron out some of yesterday’s emails while Ian Ward (not so well ironed) talks to Chris Wax about leaving.
Call to Mike Brierley of Columb Ford “The most obvious intellectual in the cricket fraternity that comes to mind is Michael Brierley. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from St. John’s Cambridge and uses his shrewd mind to capitulate England in the late 1970s and bring battery helmets. He became a leading psychoanalyst
“He came to play at the Old Boys in 1986, when I was a student and saw myself as a very nice person. I managed to catch him offspin, which is my only claim to fame in cricket. “
Elegant gesture from New Zealand:
In Sky, Chris Wax and Simon Dole talk about bowling. Woakes wears the most immaculately ironed clothes I’ve ever seen – congratulations to Sky’s wardrobe department.
Preamble
Good morning! England is starting to need a quick door today and split the partnership between Daryl Mitchell and Tom Blundell. Does it sound familiar to you? Under Lord Mitchell he reached his hundred, Blundle did not, but the rest of New Zealand’s middle order fell apart like broken biscuits. Can Broad, Potts, Anderson and Stokes – with Leach – do it again?
The game starts after 40 minutes.
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