Daryl Mitchell featured in the New Zealand XI at Lord’s only because of an injury to Henry Nicholls. Only Martin Donnelly, Bert Sutcliffe and Martin Crowe better Mitchell’s tally of most runs in a Test series in England among New Zealanders. “That’s Ricky Ponting-esque”, quipped Darren Gough on air as another well controlled pull from Daryl Mitchell raced to the boundary en-route to a monumental 190 in the first innings at Trent Bridge. Within less than a year, a free-flowing cover-drive off Stuart Broad would get him to a brilliant second Test ton that’d be celebrated with great passion. He was the lone man standing as New Zealand’s lower-order crumbled in the second innings, but a patient 61 helped setting a challenging 299-run target.

Source: Stuff June 16, 2022 08:28 UTC