Someone needs to explain to the England top order that this isn't Test cricket any more.

Going to end up giving Buttler - the one lad who can take a game away in a flash - about 10 balls. Should have been in ahead of Ravi-Bop

Close. He got 16 balls.

Managed to smash 47 off them mind. Imagine what he could have done if he'd come in at 5 or 6.

Told you he could turn a game...
Some of the shots were incredible. The one where he set himself for the flick over fine-leg, the bowler followed him and he flicked it over short third man instead... what the actual bejaysus?
Kudos too to young Rooty for his first ODI wicket, trapping Kane Williamson lbw with a cock-botherer.

I'd forgotten about the pair of t20s we've got against NZ. 25th and 27th of this month, apparently.
Pietersen is back for the second of them. Morgan to captain, Barry Gallons called up.

So the Saffer is back, the Irishman is captain and the Zimbabwean gets called up.

Having an empire once upon a time is really starting to pay off for us now, isn't it?

How does Dirtbag keep getting selected???

The great philosophical question of the age.