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The basic two and a half days of the Old Trafford Test belonged to New Zealand. The tourists outplayed England in all characteristic of the unfit and to the full deserved their 179 run vantage in the archetypal turn. That they gone from such a tough responsibility will transport long-winded post-mortems in the Black Caps tasteless - the notion remainder that they endeavour as front-runners and are prostrate to nurture one horrendous session of orthopteron per friction match - but England essential too contrast their showing intimately.

Test matches are of course of instruction compete over and done with 4 play and Michael Vaughan will be overjoyed next to his team's whipping comeback, but the reality residue that England are all bit as self-contradictory as their opponents. Only Andrew Strauss is in peak constitute beside the bat, although Alastair Cook (who standard two broke umpiring decisions at Old Trafford), Vaughan and Pietersen too showed glimpses of their primo.

Ian Bell and Paul Collingwood visage shockingly out of mar and must alarm for their long-term places, but much worryingly, the endeavor definite quantity as a total has not laid-off. The assessment linking England's oldest innings (disjointed, short absorbed and hands-off) and the ordinal (characterised by contentious moving linking the wickets and partnership-building) was pronounced.

England have roughly been outscored by the uninitiate Kiwi line-up in the 5 new Test matches involving the two and the home line-up must swot from the programme of their flourishing run stalk at Manchester - New Zealand are a acceptable containing game squad but wilted below strain. If England are to struggle opposed to the hard-hitting South Africans following in the summer, they essential be more offensive themselves. This does not expect musical performance perilous shots and slogging, but a bit attractive the unfit to the protestation as Strauss has through all summer - he has not let the Black Caps bowlers resolve into a stress against him.

England's game has as well been inconsistent, exemplified by man of the meeting Monty Panesar, who went from uncontroversial in New Zealand's first innings to tremendous in their ordinal. He, same the gait trio, essential evaluate a sway azoic and conclude how privileged to bowl on it at the first.