Legends and Pundits react on yesterday's match between England and New Zealand

07/04/2019

Jonny Bairstow's sensational hundred helped the hosts beat the Kiwis by a massive margin of 119 runs in yesterday's World Cup game in Chester-le-street. Legends and Pundits reacted on the same on Twitter as they heaped praise on England for their victory against the Kane Williamson-led team.

Brilliant Bairstow!!

Jonny Bairstow's 462 runs in the ongoing World Cup are the most by any player in the debut World Cup surpassing Rahul Dravid's 461 runs in 1999.

Earlier this year, Bairstow scored 445 runs in the IPL; the most by any player in a debut season since 2009. #CWC19 #IPL2019 #ENGvNZ
— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats) July 4, 2019

Owning centuries!!

Janardhan Bairstow! Another 100 in his name...loving this new brand of cricket from England. Opening stand of Bairstow-Roy doing the job for them.

Is Bairstow England's best batsman? Thoughts?

Watch the full episode of Castrol Activ #AakashVani here: https://t.co/xeyQRronb3 pic.twitter.com/K69FAHaZ2D
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) July 4, 2019

Very sad to watch Team like New Zealand give up so early!!

A disappointing day in the history of #cricket. New Zealand gave up so easily.

Watch the full video here: https://t.co/PXYLE5Mjgj #CWC19 #ENGvNZ #PAKvBAN pic.twitter.com/J5hazSc5Uo
— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph) July 3, 2019

Great efforts from the team!!

27 yrs since we reached our last World Cup Semi Final ... The job @Eoin16 has done with this One day team is remarkable ... 2 more huge efforts and you just never know ... #CWC19 ... I declare it #BeerOclock 👍
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) July 3, 2019

Two more wins left for England to lift the trophy!!

England coming into their own with the sun starting to shine here! Another commanding win in another crunch game.👏👏👏#CWC2019
— Sanjay Manjrekar (@sanjaymanjrekar) July 3, 2019

Very poor batting performance by New Zealand!!

What buzzkill of a match! Pakistan out, NZ didn’t even pitch up, game was one sided from the get go and controlled by England the whole time. Congrats to England and the other teams for qualifying for the semis of the 2019 World Cup.
— Wasim Akram (@wasimakramlive) July 3, 2019

That's India for you!!

The last time England played the #CWC semi-final at home, was against India at Old Trafford in 1983 (lost by 6 wickets).

It seems in #CWC2019 the same two teams will be clashing in the semis.#CWC2019 #EngvNZ #NZvEng
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) July 3, 2019

Finally after 27 years!!

So England make it to their first semi-finals after 1992 WC. Well done !#EngvNZ
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) July 3, 2019

England made it look simple!!

England through and in style.

Well played. They have now won pre QF and QF. SF and Final and no one will remember how they started.
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) July 3, 2019

Let's hope for the best!!

Very disappointed by New Zealand's steep decline at the World Cup. Will scrape through on NRR but don't see them troubling Australia in the semi-final.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) July 3, 2019

Poor cricket over there!!

One bad LBW decision, one caught down leg and one non-striker run out on a drive deflected by the bowler. If I were Kiwi I wouldn't buy a lottery ticket today!
— Joy Bhattacharjya (@joybhattacharj) July 3, 2019

English could make it happen!!