Three knockabout warm-up matches posing as a proper ODI series. How excited are we?!
Time to look back over each of New Zealand’s players, critical pen in hand.
This week everyone was angry about England’s win over New Zealand. And the inevitable rubbishness of the upcoming ODI series. But they were surprisingly happy about the week’s main topic: Alex Tudor’s magnum opus 99* back in 1999.
Beware of the jolly fat guy.
England won! And everyone is either really angry about how they did it or really angry that they did it because they wanted to be really angry about how they did it and now they can’t. Or something. Now we’re confused.
England against the weather and Alastair Cook against the world.
New Zealand being blown away in a session, Nick Compton not making any runs and Nick Compton being extremely handsome: some things never change.
They’ll be dancing on the floor of the Leadmill tonight.
The Ides of March have come.
Two match series need something special to really capture the imagination. Luckily this series has the arrival of the greatest beard in the history of everything.