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England v New Zealand, Third Test, Day Five, featuring upset people and sunsets #ENGvNZ 🏏

https://newsletter.danliebke.com/p/england-v-new-zealand-third-test-50a

Why don’t England simply endorse a meritocracy and name as captain the Player of the Match from their previous Test? And if that’s Daryl Mitchell, so be it. #ENGvNZ 🏏

LOL. Of course Root’s run himself out. #ENGvNZ 🏏

Sort of hoping Root and Gay bat through the day to secure a draw. Just for the comedy of it all. #ENGvNZ 🏏

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England v New Zealand, Third Test, Day Four, featuring the cowardice of calculus, Ben Stokes' retirement and Ben Stokes' batting #ENGvNZ 🏏

https://newsletter.danliebke.com/p/england-v-new-zealand-third-test-0c8

Seems somewhat fitting for Stokes to retire in the middle of the Australian night so we all wake up with a sense of being overwhelmed by an unrelenting barrage that we never expected and to which we have no counter, just blinking in confusion and going ‘wait, what did he just do?’ #ENGvNZ 🏏

Can’t tell you how excited I am for the Brookball™ era. #ENGvNZ 🏏

Good of England to say goodbye to Stokes by celebrating his strategy of *checks notes* throwing wickets away with stupid batting for no reason #cricket #ENGvNZ

It is not just the Stokes news, and his own innings, it is England's whole approach here that gives this a feel of a last hurrah at the end of an era in test cricket.
#cricket #TestCricket #EnglandvNewZealand #ENGvNZ

Ben Stokes is my hero. Nothing more to add. #BenStokes #ENGvNZ #ecb

Australia now in complete control against India at the #WomensT20WorldCup
Ireland about to pull off a second successive win over India in their T20I series.
Craziness at Trent Bridge, where having promoted himself to open Stokes seems intent on going beyond even 'Bazball'.
#cricket #TestCricket #EnglandvNewZealand #ENGvNZ #WT20I #AustraliavIndia #AUSvIND #T20I #IrelandvIndia #IREVIND

Wait. Why is Stokes opening? He’s just in complete ‘ah, fuck it’ mode, is he? #ENGvNZ 🏏

“How will we know when to release the statement, Ben?”
“I’ll give you a signal.”
“Some kind of wave to the dressing room?”
“If I bowl an entire session unchanged.”

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Bit rude of Ben to retire while I’m half-sleepingly watching this T20 between India and Australia. #WWC2026 #ENGvNZ 🏏

Free tickets tomorrow if you want to see his last day of international #cricket #ENGvNZ

Great effort from these lads to try to wrap up this innings before the Australia-India women’s World Cup match starts. #WWC2026 #ENGvNZ 🏏

Big fan of Stuart Broad’s continued insistence on translating every potential mention of ‘Bazball’ to ‘Brendon McCullum’s time in charge of this England team’. #ENGvNZ 🏏

Oh, Ravindra. #ENGvNZ 🏏

I was assured this pitch had deteriorated into some kind of unsurvivable abandoned quarry. Why did you all lie to me? #ENGvNZ 🏏

This is just like the first day except that in addition to no wickets falling there’s also no runs being scored. Proper cricket. #ENGvNZ 🏏

Ball-tracking software needs to take into account Jofra’s celebrappeal. #ENGvNZ 🏏

Before today’s fourth day starts, here’s everything* you need to know about day three. #ENGvNZ 🏏

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:g56u6vue6vs2fqpgf7qtioyh/post/3mpckq2sjpc2v

England v New Zealand, Third Test, Day Three, featuring overnight overconfidence and anagrams #ENGvNZ 🏏

https://newsletter.danliebke.com/p/england-v-new-zealand-third-test-1d5

Your New Zealand concussion substitute name is your favourite discarded Bazball opener and a homonym of your favourite discarded Bazball wicketkeeper.

I’m Zak Foulkes

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Ben Stokes bowled by a delivery coming back into him? Huh. #ENGvNZ 🏏

England were supposed to follow New Zealand’s lead and have those two wickets fall at the end of yesterday’s play. Once again, though, a couple of their players were out late. #ENGvNZ 🏏

This is the exact kind of pitch on which I’d very much like to see Harry Brook do something completely mad. (By which I mean literally any kind of pitch.) #ENGvNZ 🏏

There are too many Bens in this Test match. Please remove two. #ENGvNZ 🏏