Root is a little star what potential this young lad has top class

Agreed, and thoroughly deserved to get his England contract.

good series win for england
thats the 2020 odi's sewn up

think the tests will be very one sided 3 0 and all 3 by an innings

Can't disagree with that. We should stuff them in the tests.

that was abysmal today shocking

I was always one of the people who thought that it wouldn't be that easy in NZ
I backed England to win 1-0
We are, as always happens now, undercooked in test matches
Why do we play 50 over games as warm ups as opposed to the 3 or 4 day games
We leave ourselves short like we did in India 4 months ago and Australia in the past
We will just have to bat for two days to get the practice in and save the game
Ian

This is an England team that is more than capable of turning things around on a regular basis, much more resilient than previous test sides. Batting for 2 days to salvage a draw isn't beyond them.

the weather could help us out

I have no doubt that this team can bat out a draw
I just wish they could have been more prepared
What happened to the warm up games against the provinces
Money spinning ODI's get the nod all the time, a sad consequence of the times

Yes, I take your point mate, no good playing catch up all the time.

always same with England on tour always under-cooked and therefore always behind the 8 ball

hope Jimmy can get his 5for put in great effort yesterday

293 behind with pretty much 2 whole days to go - lets see what you're made of now lads. I'm staying positive - gulp!

Great fight back by Cook and Compton. Shame Cook went ten minutes before the close of play otherwise it would have been the perfect day. Be interesting to see how many Finn can make on this pitch after being in as night watchman.

glad to see england plugged there run machine back in COOK
great opening partnership
was hard waiting for compton to get to a ton took an age from 92 to 100
thought his father was going have heart failure

Today's batting performance will hopefully kick start the test series for England
but still glad to have backed 1-0 to England