On Sky Sports 1 now, NZ 48-1 with Harmy making the early breakthrough. 
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England: Alastair Cook, Michael Vaughan (capt), Andrew Strauss, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Tim Ambrose (wk), Ryan Sidebottom, Steve Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Monty Panesar.Thanks very much for being ‘This Mornings’ Farmer’ -
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No updates between 11:32 and 8:51. That's a long lunch..
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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bloody Indians
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"looking through your posts since 2007 and what you have consistently written about my football team I have come to the conclusion that if you had 1 more brain cell you would be a plant .. your father was a hamster and your mother smells of elder berries, I fart in your general direction ..." Nicey
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First Test, Hamilton: New Zealand 282-6 v England (day one)
By Paresh Soni[BBC]
England fought hard to restrict New Zealand to 282-6 on day one of the first Test after a typically aggressive knock from Brendon McCullum.
The Kiwis were struggling on 191-5 despite Jamie How's 92 as Alastair Cook took three sharp catches.
But McCullum blasted two sixes in his 51 off 55 balls and added 86 with Ross Taylor, who made an unbeaten 54.
Ryan Sidebottom, who was the pick of the bowlers, had McCullum caught behind to finish with figures of 2-39.
That frenetic ending to the final session was out of tune with a largely attritional day's cricket which confirmed this will be a hard-fought series between two teams looking to re-establish themselves.
It began with openers How and Matthew Bell hardly setting the pulses racing after Daniel Vettori won the toss.
Once they had seen off the new ball and early swing movement, however, they did punish just about everything that was too full, particularly from Matthew Hoggard and the innocuous Steve Harmison.
Bell hurt namesake Ian's wrist with a powerful pull shot which thudded into him at short-leg but, fortunately for the England fielder, X-rays revealed nothing more than heavy bruising and he hopes to play a part later in the game.
He then departed in tame fashion, edging a Harmison half-volley to Cook at third slip, but Stephen Fleming settled into an elegant rhythm at the start of his farewell series.
The former skipper twice clipped Harmison off his legs and drove Hoggard through the covers and mid-off for early fours as the hosts reached lunch on 87-1.
Spinner Monty Panesar tossed the ball up either side of the interval and got the ball to skid off the surface without posing a genuine threat.
Indeed, much of the action was far from compelling before Cook enlivened proceedings with a stunning dive to remove Fleming for 41 and reward the accurate Sidebottom.
When Matthew Sinclair drove a return catch straight back to Collingwood, England were in the ascendancy.
But How, who had eschewed any risk-taking until then, started to flourish in the afternoon with Taylor for company.
Harmison, bowling at around 81/82mph, was treated with particular contempt as the scoring finally moved out of the realms of pedestrian and touched three an over briefly.
But How's composure lapsed as he entered the 90s and after a couple of lbw shouts from Panesar he edged a classic slow left-armer's delivery to slip.
Collingwood, who was slightly unsighted by debutant keeper Tim Ambrose, held on expertly and Cook was again in the action shortly after, soaring to his right to pluck out another stunner after Jacob Oram (10) drove airily at Hoggard.
But McCullum continued the terrific form he showed in the limited-overs games, cutting Hoggard with real authority and coming down the wicket to clip Harmison through mid-wicket in an early signal of his intent.
When the second new ball was taken he promptly pulled Sidebottom to the ropes, while Taylor drove Hoggard exquisitely through the covers and down the ground.
The wicket-keeper/batsman swept Panesar and slashed Hoggard over third man for sixes en route to reaching his half-century, while Taylor produced a more restrained cover-drive off the seamer to reach his fifty in the same over.
The mayhem ended when another McCullum swish caught the edge to give Ambrose his first dismissal.
And despite the late swing in fortunes, a misfiring Harmison and some untidy ground fielding, England will be happy enough after the opening exchanges of the three-match series."The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
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Good to see Cook take some catches as he has taken some stick for his fielding."The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
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Will this thread be as exciting as the Australia v India one though??!! LOL"Its not about the long ball or the short ball, its about the right ball." Bob PaisleyComment
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no chance.Originally posted by looprevil View Post
Theres absolutely nothing controversial about either side
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Come off it, Harvey, you're an obnoxious weed.Originally posted by Harveybirdman View Postno chance.
Theres absolutely nothing controversial about either side.
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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what are you talking about mate the kiwis are well know sheep shaggers.Originally posted by Harveybirdman View Postno chance.
Theres absolutely nothing controversial about either side
"I watched the Champions League quarter-finals and the way they crushed Arsenal. Only the greatest and the best can play such a match.
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When I saw the scorecard at lunch, I was staggered to see that Harmison had bowled nearly 10 overs and England hadn't conceded a single extra.Comment
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What's the opinion on Sidebottom? I'd have thought he was our weakest bowler, but his bowling figures were excellent yesterday. Hoggard took a bit of stick though.I'm playing all the right notes. Not necessarily in the right order. I'll give you that, sunshine.Comment
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Sidey, to me, seems cut from the same cloth as Hoggard. For me it’d be one or t’other in the team, not both.
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