England start their journey in Test cricket underneath new captain Ben Stokes and new head coach Brendon McCullum in opposition to New Zealand on Thursday as the 2 groups meet within the first Test at Lord’s in London. The Three Lions wish to come out of a significant stoop in cricket’s longest format, which ultimately led to a change of guard as very long time captain Joe Root stepped down submit losses to Australia and West Indies.
The three-match sequence in opposition to ICC World Test Championship holders New Zealand goes to be a litmus take a look at for the Three Lions.
They additionally face India in a rescheduled Test in July, which is able to determine the destiny of the sequence that India is main 2-1.
Ahead of the primary day’s play at Lord’s a scorecard take a look at run has led to hilarious reactions from cricket followers and even journalists on twitter.
An picture began circulating of the digital scorecard at Lord’s which confirmed England’s rating as 7/1, throughout a take a look at run.
Here are a number of the reactions from followers on twitter.
Lord’s scoreboard operators have a pre-match run by way of and never displaying a lot religion in England’s high order pic.twitter.com/0FHBpdXD35
— Nick Hoult (@NHoultCricket) June 1, 2022
Realistic although. Nice cowl drive from Crawley, tried it once more subsequent ball and nicked off is what I’m guessing occurred.
— pauljohnfawell (@fawell68) June 1, 2022
Can’t see both of them being there with 7 on the board tbh.
— Jon (@Jonphillips7777) June 1, 2022
Scoreboard take a look at run is not doing a lot for England’s confidence pic.twitter.com/qE8LkugGLu
— Rory Dollard (@thervd) June 1, 2022
Lords scoreboard predicting the inevitable proper now. pic.twitter.com/aPfs5fAi9I
— bjgorton2001 (@bjgorton2001) June 1, 2022
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England squad for the New Zealand Test sequence: Ben Stokes (C), Joe Root, James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Stuart Broad, Harry Brook, Zak Crawley, Ben Foakes, Jack Leach, Alex Lees, Craig Overton, Ollie Pope, Matthew Potts
New Zealand Squad: Kane Williamson (c), Tom Blundell (wk), Trent Boult, Devon Conway, Colin de Grandhomme, Cam Fletcher (wk), Matt Henry, Kyle Jamieson, Tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Henry Nicholls, Ajaz Patel, Tim Southee, Neil Wagner, Will Young, *Michael Bracewell (first Test solely)
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