England vs New Zealand: England wrap up thumping victory as pitch makes headlines in Lord's Test
6/7/202610 min
Mel Jones and Mark Butcher discuss England's 115 run victory over New Zealand in the first Test at Lord's on a much-criticised pitch that was arduous for batting.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 10:00
[dramatic music] Yeah, gone, gone. He gets his fairy tale ending. An epic way to go to a test match 100. The London Spirit are first-time winners. The most remarkable thing you'll probably ever see in cricket. 604 and final test wicket to Stuart Broad. It's India who won the T20 World Cup. England's captain, Ben Stokes, while he is there, England have hope.
Mel Jones· Host0:27
[dramatic music] Well, winter of discontent has been replaced by a big win by England by 143 runs here at Lords. It's The Daily Review, and, uh, we only need Butch today. Game over. [laughs] Crowd reasonably happy. They would have liked to have seen a li- little bit more action, but, uh, how do you surmise that last day's play?
Mark Butcher· Guest0:51
Well, I mean, let- let's start with today. Um, England wrapped it up. I think everybody expected they probably would. New Zealand only had five wickets left, needing 199, which is a heck of a lot of runs given, um, what we've seen the ball do on- on this surface and the quality of the bowlers. A little bit surprised that they didn't sort of try to throw a, you know, a- a counter-punch a bit earlier, maybe send Jamieson up the order to come in once Blundell was knocked over. And just try to put England on the back foot. Try anything.
Mel Jones· Host1:20
Yeah.
Mark Butcher· Guest1:20
Because the one thing you knew for certain was that there were gonna be lots and lots of deliveries that will get a batter out playing normally. Um, but they didn't do that. They went pretty much through the card, um,