England v Pakistan- test series thread.

Rjd2

Their fielding has been AWFUL.

KP is scratching around and he has been lucky as he was dropped twice, but with the morale of the bowlers likely to drop, tomorrow mighr be a great chance for him to get a much needed huge score. :)

Rjd2

KP has been awful, dropped again this morning..:eek:

Cremated

And also the incident with the dead ball , did anyone see it?,

'' Mohammad Asif ran in for the fifth ball of his 12th over and he was well into his delivery stride when Pietersen began walking towards square leg. The batsman is allowed to back away if he is distracted, but Pietersen then continued to play a shot and lobbed a gentle catch to mid-off. The umpire Marais Erasmus called dead ball moments before the ball was struck, but Salman Butt protested that it was too late. '' is a clip from CricInfo on what happened...

booth70

7/238....if Pakistan can nick a lead of 130-140 this could still be an interesting match....England's batting has only been marginally better than Pakistan's;)

booth70

Pakistan are 100 ahead....I fancy them to win this now:)

Mothman

I think depends on the weather, if clear England will win though Ajmal and his doosra may well reap rewards, if overcast then it may well be touch and go with swinging ball

zulfikarMD

Well done to Pakis they lost by just 9 wkts!:pac:

boksmashoffice

Next game they might make it to start of day 5. I get so frustrated watching the pakistani team. The Captain is clueless. His field settings were mind boggling throughout the test. Today he took the biscuit. I think he really needs to get some advice from one of the best brains in Cricket, that being Shane Warne.

I hope next match Both Yousef and Younis Khan play to add some spine to the team. the 2 kids look out of their depth.

Its a shame the tour has so many tests and ODI's and T20 games. The old schhol tour would have been great to bllod in the new kids to the team. A few matchs againest invatation sides, combined university teams and chuck in a few county teasm would have benefitted the team. At the moment all these guys know is losing. That is not good.

Bring on next Wed.

Royale with Cheese

I have tickets for the final day of this test. I was praying Pakistan could get their shít together and that the game might actually last 5 days. England are 86/6 and it's only the afternoon session of day 1. Didn't see that coming. I guess rain is my only hope now.

boksmashoffice

The Pakistani's did well today, however I still think Butt is tatically clueless. The mind boggles with some of his field settings. He had the chance of really getting England by their nuts. When broad came in he missed a trick by his field settings. He was not aggressive enough in the field settings to Prior when he was in his 10's and 20's. England could have been all out for 150.

Only one dropped catch today. An improvement on the last 2 tests. '
Well done for picking Rahab and Hameed. They just have to get rid of Farhat as he looks out of his depth and maybe play Butt and Hameed at the top with Younis Khan at 3.

Bring on day 2.

djimi

Should be a good day today. This is the biggest test of the Pakistani batting so far in this series; if they can go on and put up a good score then they can answer all their critics and put England in a really tough position. If they fail in the same way that they have been doing then they are opening themselves up for more criticism. For me today decides the series.

Mothman

Like the series to date, ease of batting will depend on cloud cover. We saw yesterday batting got easier (along with older ball) when sun came out. Today will be no different.

First half of day may be more sunny than cloudy and Anderson and co. may not get movement. Swan may well have a say today.

See Sat24 for current satellite view.

boksmashoffice

A good day for Pakistan. Once again Yousef showed his true class to score 54 (i think). Shame he did not go on. Fair play to Swann for going over the wicket.

Azhar benefitted from having Yousef at the crease to keep him calm. I am still convinced that if Yousef was not playing then Pakistan would have callopsed.

Umar Akmal had a rush of blood and in the process got himself out, 3 balls before new ball was due. I reckon if he had been around for new ball then Pakistan would have got a lead over 150 +.

Anway, Game is well poised with Struass gone. Tomorrow will be a good day to finally watch real tough test cricket .

Mothman

Under the cloudy conditions I can see England's top order crumbling again. Pakistan may well get clear conditions for the chase and pull it off

djimi

I think Pakistan are in the driving seat providing they bowl well today. Id love to see Cook battle hard to get a century and put England in a strong position; it would kill two birds with one stone in that it would give him confidence and answer his critics and also potentially put England in a match winning position.

If Pakistan dont bowl well this morning however and England can put up a lead of 200+ I think all the pressure is back on Pakistan. The way their batting line up has been playing Im not sure Id be particularly backing them to keep it together to knock off 200 or 250 runs to win the game. Time will tell I suppose.

HuntingDrog

listening to the test on the radio
Michael Vaughan seems to be missing from the commentary team - has he left the radio team?

EDIT - he's there but he still doesn't seem to be there too often. maybe he's doing some TV too????

Anyway - Question answered

Mothman

HuntingDrog wrote: »

maybe he's doing some TV too????

He does TV for same test even when on the radio commentary team.

booth70

Cook salvages his career and books place on Ashes tour.....not that the Aussies will be quaking in their boots at the thought of Cook opening:D

booth70

England 124 ahead with 5 wickets left....I reckon they already have more than enough to win this match!

djimi

I would suggest England are going to need a lead of at least 200 before they can consider themselves to be in any ways in the driving seat. Those last two wickets really threw the cat among the pigeons; England were looking comfortable to put up a big lead and all of a sudden its swung back to Pakistan again.

Mothman

Mothman wrote: »

Under the cloudy conditions I can see England's top order crumbling again.

For slightly different reasons they have crumbled though I didn't bank on a Cook century.

Game on and I'm not writing Pakistan off. Swan is key

Mr. Guappa

What the hell happened during tea?

Since then we've had 7 overs, 4 wickets and 12 runs!

Pakistan favourites now if they can get rid of Prior, Swann and Broad without too much fuss.

djimi

The tail has some serious wagging to do!

Mothman

7 catches for Kamran Akmal.
This is what let Pakistan down last test, had thay held their catches

Mothman

no. 8 for K Akmal

Mothman

Off for bad light

England 221/9 after being 156/2 & 194/3
146 lead

Marshy

Thought this was funny; from BBC Sport:

The collapse continued as Paul Collingwood played a flat-footed drive and edged through to the keeper, while Eoin Morgan was beaten by Ajmal's arm ball which drifted into another sizeable gap between bat and pad as the Irishman prodded forward.

Might be reading too much into it, but sounds like a bit of an Andy Murray complex going on. English when he scores a ton, Irish when he gets out cheaply!

djimi

Nah to be fair whenever Sky or BBC talk about Morgan he is always "the Dubliner" or "the Irishman". It would take some doing to even try and claim him as one of their own, regardless of what jersey he is wearing!

Rjd2

djimi wrote: »

Nah to be fair whenever Sky or BBC talk about Morgan he is always "the Dubliner" or "the Irishman". It would take some doing to even try and claim him as one of their own, regardless of what jersey he is wearing!

Aye, no malice is involved. Boycott has ALWAYS referred to him as the Irishman even when heaping immense praise on him.:o


Meagre chase, but if anyone will **** this up, it would be Pakistan. :pac:

booth70

The Pakistanis doing it easy...57 for 1 chasing 148.....surely there's another twist in the tale;)

booth70

booth70 wrote: »

The Pakistanis doing it easy...57 for 1 chasing 148.....surely there's another twist in the tale;)

57 for 2 now....here we go

booth70

Only 17 to go....but the two Akmals who havent got a run between them all summer at the crease.....its not over yet!!

Cremated

Kamran Akmal gone for 0, LBW to Swann, 16 still needed...

Mothman

12 minutes later and still 16 needed....

Cremated

Yeah four maiden overs in a row , England are 5/1 in running, Pakistan are holding out for the draw ha...

riffmongous

England were 47/5 at one stage but similar to last week they've managed claw things back, 185/7 now mostly down to a 80 run partnership between Broad and Trott. Ducks for Collingwood, Morgan and Pieterson (first ball)

Inquitus

riffmongous wrote: »

England were 47/5 at one stage but similar to last week they've managed claw things back, 185/7 now mostly down to a 80 run partnership between Broad and Trott. Ducks for Collingwood, Morgan and Pieterson (first ball)

342-7 approaching the close of Day 2, tons for Trott and Broad.

d'Oracle

Broad hit a century today.

Didn't think he had it in him.
Speaks well for Englands Batting order.

Danger_dave1

d'Oracle wrote: »

Broad hit a century today.

Didn't think he had it in him.
Speaks well for Englands Batting order.

Trott is infuriating at times, but if it works , don't change it eh ? great to see broad get a century.

booth70

433/7...C'mon Straussy....you have enough...declare and move the match forward....probably waiting for both to get 200's:)

England have won the series but that still dosen't hide their batting problems ahead of the Ashes.....the one saving grace probably is Autralia's pie-chuckers are nowhere as good as the Pakistan bowlers:)

d'Oracle

Broad out, will strauss wait for Trott to gett the double?

mike65

8th wicket partership record set by Broad and Trott

d'Oracle

Second highest 9 innings in Hiss-tour-ee

mike65

Pakistan 9 for 2

rednik

Broad is on fire, only in the 1st innings and the man of the match is looking good.

riffmongous

74/8 now, hard to see England having to bat again

d'Oracle

Absolutely loopy bloody test match.:D

booth70

riffmongous wrote: »

74/8 now, hard to see England having to bat again

Should be over by lunch tomoro....afraid in the end it was one test match too many for the Pakistanis this summer....still 2-4 with wins against Australia and England not bad at all for a side that can't bat!!

KP , Morgs and Colly will be desperately hoping England won't have to bat again.....who would want to bag a pair at Lords!!

poppers

News of the world saying test is fixed


http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/924349/Cricket-in-the-dock-as-we-expose-betting-scandal-England-Pakistan-Test.html

Rjd2

poppers wrote: »

News of the world saying test is fixed


http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/924349/Cricket-in-the-dock-as-we-expose-betting-scandal-England-Pakistan-Test.html

Nowhere in that article do they say that the test match is fixed, instead that Asif and Aamer delivered no balls which to be fair didn't exactly effect the outcome of the match. Its incredibly depressing as I really adore watching Aamer but not that surprising really this is happening.