Englishmen Abroad grit it out

Day 5 England thanks to Matt Prior (110*) batted the day out losing only 5 of their 6 remaining wickets. Some dogged dot ball batting from Stuart Broad and Joe Root helped eat up the overs and the time - Broad made 6 from 77 balls in 137 minutes. 

With all the professionalism supposedly surrounding the England team, why again did they enter a series under-cooked - arrogance, complacency, laziness, you choose but they certainly under-estimated their opposition and perhaps sold a few more tickets for this summer against the same foe at home in the process.

Day 4 NZ 241/6 England 90/4

Day 3 England all out for 204, NZ 35/3

Day 2 saw centurion Peter Fulton get bogged down by more spirited bowling and Steve Finn finish with 6/125 - NZ 443 all out, England 50/2

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 Day 1 of the third test, put in NZ, 250/1

Sandra

Day 5

Reports are that the morning in Wellington arose wet and wet it stayed - MATCH DRAWN

Day 4

Sandra took away 2 sessions of the fourth day leaving NZ 162/2, with her rain.

Day 3

With Cyclone Sandra expected to wipe-out much of day 5, at least, breaking a drought for Wellington, England enforced a follow-on after some controlled bowling from Stuart Broad, 6/51 dismissed NZ for 254 in their first innings. With James Anderson restricted by a strapped ankle putting the England attack one man down, the hosts plodded to 77/1, second time around.

England lost the toss in the second test in Wellington but made New Zealand pay, closing day 1 267/2, thanks in main to a 210 2nd wicket stand between Nick Compton(100) and Jon Trott (121*). A much improved effort on last week.

Day 2

England were bowled out for 465, KP 73 and Prior 82.

At stumps NZ 66/3, 2 wickets for Stuart Broad.

Barbados

Notts will take 17 players on their warm weather pilgrimage to Barbados, 13 being previous visitors last year plus Sam Wood, Sam Kelsall, Ajmal Shahzad and Adam Tillcock. No George Bacon this year.

Nottinghamshire squad: Chris Read (captain), Alex Hales, Michael Lumb, James Taylor, Riki Wessels, Steven Mullaney. Paul Franks, Graeme White, Ben Phillips, Ajmal Shahzad, Andrew Carter, Luke Fletcher, Harry Gurney, Jake Ball, Sam Kelsall, Sam Wood and Adam Tillcock