Live-blogging Ohio, Texas and, er, Hamilton…

The internet is all about niche, right? It’s clear to me that there’s an as yet unfilled opening for a blog that combines analysis of the latest shenanigans between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton with equally speculative and ill-informed musings on England’s tour of New Zealand. We break new ground here, folks, with the world’s first (I believe) cricket-politics live-blog… We’ll be roaming all over the globe tonight, taking in the results from Ohio and Texas as well as the action from Hamilton as the Black Caps take on the visiting English…

9.14pm: Michael Vaughan makes a hash of the toss. He calls heads and it’s tails. Daniel Vettori and his boys will have a bat. Odds on Steve Harmison hitting second slip on the knee with the first ball of the match?

9.28: Harmison can rest easy: Sidebottom bowls the first over, sparing Harmison’s embarrassment. “There’s a dampish feel to the morning” says Mike Atherton.