Broad gets wicket #2. England are bowling well at the moment.

40-2 after 11 overs.

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Ern

Spot on - Jimmy got him.
NZ - 40-3.

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Ern

Yep, almost exactly as I expected.

Deceived by a slower ball from Anderson he was half through the shot and only managed to toe end it to deep square leg where Mascarenhas took the catch on the boundary. Aggression and playing the big shots is and will be Ryders downfall. He just can't reign it and construct and innings, he has to go for those big shots.

This is a different situation to the previous two ODIs, Ryder doesn't have licence to play as aggressively as he's been playing and particularly when you consider the fall of Hows wicket the over before. His responsbility was to start building an innings and stick around and let others play around him - but he just can't do it.

How sliced a drive to backward square point off Broad where Collingwood took a decent catch diving forward. How never really got going to be honest and he looks too 'conventional' for limited overs cricket.

Styris gone, set up by Broad bowling good line and length and then drops a short one in which Styris leaps on and pulls to Mascarenhas at mid wicket.

Taylor got away with a dodgy shot a ball or so before and he won't be aorund long if he carries on like that.

Whee! Now it's NZ's turn to capitulate... can we please just get one good, even game out of this series!

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How so? Including this innings, he's now played 19 matches, averaged 38 and hit six fifties. You talk about consistency- those figures to me are the very model of consistency.

Thus far you have that - Outcome depends on the England batting methinks.

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I'm just saying it as I see it Aurelius, I know very little about most Kiwi players and this is the first time I've seen many of them. How just looks too conventional to me, he hits in conventional areas almost like he's playing a Test Match rather than a ODI and his figures speak for themselves do they not 10 off 20 balls?

To be fair England are bowling very well and they're being pinned down by some accurate bowling, but thats exactly the time when you have to try something different, not just let the bowlers bowl at you and defend everything which is virtually what How was doing.

Collingwood gets Fulton - hey England should always bowl second to their stength - god here come Oram, make or break.

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Just as I thought - J How strike rate 67, that's even lower than Alastair Cook!

Fulton gone, played across a straight one from Paul Collingwood - he never really got going either.