Cricket

England playing their first match in New Zealand :
New Zealand Eleven - 172-4 (20 overs)
England - 42-1 (3.1 overs) already 16 extras including 11 wides.
 
A nice boost for England with a win at the start of the tour.
New Zealand Eleven - 172-4 (20 overs)
England - 178-4 (18.1 overs), Bairstow 78 off 45 balls, Curran 28 off 15 balls.
 
England 188-5, New Zealand 11, 56-2, 8.1 overs. Matt Parkinson, in his first England match, with a wicket in his first over. Mahmood with the other wicket.
 
Shakib all Hasan banned for corruption


Imagine not just the hugely lucrative franchise cricket but all those sponsorship deals plus his reputation and worldwide respect, all that money too, and now he's gone and flushed the whole lot down the toilet.

Career over as he's not an inexperienced green rookie like the Pakistani quick bowler who rightly was given a second chance after his ban. He's a superstar who has caught Big Fat Sam disease and tried to make even more on the side.

Tbf to Sam although he broke the spirit of the contract the FA gave him, by the letter of his contract he arguably didnt do anything that wrong, whereas this is just blatant.
 
England 188-5, New Zealand 11, 56-2, 8.1 overs. Matt Parkinson, in his first England match, with a wicket in his first over. Mahmood with the other wicket.

England have left virtually all their top players at home, development squad with Morgan and a sprinkling of new names and the likes of Bairstow Billinge and.... oh no James Vince ...(proved such a disaster in the 50 overs world cup when in for Jason Roy) but a lot of future hopefuls really.
 
Lancashire's Mahmood and Parkinson in the England team for the first T20 match against New Zealand on Friday.


Darren Gough is to work with the seam bowling attack for the two tests in New Zealand.
 

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