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What a turn around to the game, 1st Half of Day 2 New Zealand out played England with both ball and then with bat scoring runs at quick pace and at one stage it seemed like game is going out of England hands but things changed quickly after lunch with Ryan Sidebottom ripping through the New Zealand batsman who is very well supported by Broad and Anderson.

Resuming 2nd Innings I thought England will play carefully but Michael Vaughan proved me wrong(again) with reckless and unnecessary shot. Nevertheless England still has a upperhand, already leading by 176 runs with another 8 wickets in hand. If England can accumulate another 150 runs it will be interesting chase for New Zealand on Day 4.

Day 1 was totally dominated by Sri Lanka and put them in a great position. SL will be looking forward to extend 1st inning score by another 150 runs to be in commanding position of the 1st test of 2 match test series. West Indies need to pick wickets soon before game slip from their hands. It will be interesting to see how pitch plays on Day 2 and also how West Indies goin to bat on this track which suited batsman on day 1.

We hope we will have free live cricket streaming links to watch this online.

From 4/3 to 240/7 may not be a dream recovery but England has got decent score to play with and defend themselves from losing the match. KP who looked bit shaky at the start of innings went on to score his 11th century to pull the England out of deep sh*t, the openers had put in with little partnerships from Collingwood and Stuart Broad. The new kid Southee for New Zealand is very impressive picking three top wickets on Day 1 of International debut.

New Zealand has still got good opportunity to win their first match on this ground and also the series if they can excel on Day 2 with ball first and then with Bat.

Just checked the Schedule and its not aired on CBN/ATN(As per ATN site which is normally up to date.) which reduces the chances of getting this feed live unless we get stream from Ten Sports, India or SkySports UK. As usual lets hope some good soul will stream this one for us.

Don’t know how much important this series for Sri Lanka but its definitely important for West Indies to get back on track. Good thing for WI is Sarwan is back and some new faces with Gayle as Captain which might help them to restore their pride.

Well the links were posted few minutes before the match and England are 14/3 while updating the post losing Vaughan, Strauss and Cook in quick succession leaving Bell and KP at the crease. Runs from KP’s willow is due from long(really long) time and if he can help in England recover today I would consider he has done his job for this series. Kiwis got to an excellent start and in a very good position not to lose match from here.

And with this match Stephen Flemming(one of the underrated player in cricketing history and a great captain) will be signing off from International Cricket.

All three results are possible at this stage of the game and whichever team wins will win the three match test series.

Picking 4 wickets on Day 5 should not be a difficult task for England to win this important 2nd match to level the test series. After dominating the test match on all 4 days, the result should not surprise any and the way England has comeback into the series after losing 1st Test very badly is worth praising. Still some concerns around batting but bowling has been excellent through out the match.

Wait match is not yet over, but yeah New Zealand needs a miracle to save match from here.

Actually not a bad job by English men yesterday but it could have been even better. Nevertheless chasing 400 in 4th innings is not a easy task but anything is possible in cricket.

Most probably will be monitor the links through out the match today and should be stable enough today

Great opportunity for England to level the series here after bowling out New Zealand for a score less than 200. If England can bat through out the day and post a score of 400+ to defend then will have a good chance of winning and leveling the series. But it all depends on how they bat today and how pitch will do on 4th and 5th day.

Lets hope we will have stable links like yesterday through out the match.

After put to bat by Vettori England was off to a very careful start and managed pretty well till lunch without losing a wicket. Soon after the lunch England lost wickets in heap and thanks to Ambrose (New Wicket Keeper) and Collingwood who played extremely well without losing any further wickets to take England just over 290 runs at the End of the day 1. Actually things went fine for both the teams but England should be feeling much better than NZ at the end of day 1 after good partnership between Ambrose and Collingwood.

By the time I’m updating this one Ambrose just departed after scoring brilliant century. It would be interesting to see how the lower order bats around Collingwood.

After much well deserved criticism England would hope to get their act together and perform well( Draw/Win) in this important match to stay alive in the series while New Zealand will look to repeat their last match performance.

Lets hope we get some stable links to watch this match and importantly hope we get to watch good cricket unlike the 1st Match.