Re my previous post... it seems I spoke too soon. Who would have thought, having bowled England all out for 232 and 213, New Zealand would go on to lose the Test by 170 runs on the third day...? That was quite a - shall we say spectacular - collapse from the Kiwis. I don't think I've ever seen a more tortuous second innings. By the sixth wicket down I was just pleading for the Poms to put New Zealand out of their misery, having had everything to gain just to be bowled all out for a scrawny 68.
From an Australian perspective, the lessons are clear: fear Stuart Broad and James Anderson, master the moving ball, and don't cock it up. One silver lining, though, is that England failed to make big scores against the New Zealand seamers. We'll have to wait for the next Test at Headingley to see how the England batsmen perform again against the New Zealand bowlers, but the vulnerability the England batsmen showed in this Test should hearten the Australian bowlers.
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