England V Pakistan

rudboy

The general consensus on the Guardian's cricket forum is Morgan out, he has been very bad but so has the rest of the batting order. So it will look as if its all his fault if they drop only him, real pity as i think if he is given more time he could be great but the writing is on the wall....

SSK

rudboy wrote: »

The general consensus on the Guardian's cricket forum is Morgan out, he has been very bad but so has the rest of the batting order. So it will look as if its all his fault if they drop only him, real pity as i think if he is given more time he could be great but the writing is on the wall....

Morgan has looked out of his depth in fairness, he has well documented issues with quality pace bowling and has shown in this series that he doesn't really deal with spin all that well either. A lot of potential but I think he was promoted too soon in hindsight. KP is the next most vulnerable but won't be dropped, Bell has been too good over the last 18 months to drop on the back of one bad series.

Overall its good to see Pakistan with a quality and hopefully legitimate team with some good young players. Fully deserving of their series win.

booth70

rudboy wrote: »

The general consensus on the Guardian's cricket forum is Morgan out, he has been very bad but so has the rest of the batting order. So it will look as if its all his fault if they drop only him, real pity as i think if he is given more time he could be great but the writing is on the wall....

Morgan looked good in his brief innings of 31 yesterday.....he always looks good when he attacks and a real mess when he defends....

I think England should and will stick with him for the Sri Lanka series particularly if he scores some runs in the one day series against Pakistan that starts shortly

If Bopara is the best replacement England have got it says a bit about their batting reserves!!

boksmashoffice

What the f**k is up with the Akmal clan? They could not catch for s**t. Cook should have gone way before he got near his 2nd hundred. fair play to him for taking his chance. I can see another 100 + run defeat. i hope i am proved wrong like the 2nd test. lets see.

Rjd2

boksmashoffice wrote: »

What the f**k is up with the Akmal clan? They could not catch for s**t. Cook should have gone way before he got near his 2nd hundred. fair play to him for taking his chance. I can see another 100 + run defeat. i hope i am proved wrong like the 2nd test. lets see.

Umar is not a specalist wicket keeper, may get away with him in 20 overs but not in ODI sadly.

boksmashoffice

Rjd2 wrote: »

Umar is not a specalist wicket keeper, may get away with him in 20 overs but not in ODI sadly.

True: However you need a player who can catch a ball behind the stumps. It gives the spinners a bit more confidence in him. maybe he will deliver with the bat. No MALIK in the team should help. The openers have to step up for 15 overs and set a platform.

LETS SEE

rudboy

Aye Cook could've gone for 28!! Disastrous fielding, on an Irish note Morgan was all over the place at the start of his innings but settled down a bit. Don't know if that gets him a spot in Sri Lanka with Bopara breathing down his neck.. hopefully he'll get longer at the crease Saturday.

Rjd2

One of the most inane efforts to chase I have seen in yonks. hafeez as usual after a good start pisses away his wicket to a nothing ball, the Farhat inning was so fluky and his dismissal was comical. Pleased he didn't get a 50 he did not deserve it. Afridi and Umar also gave it away after playing some big shots. Afridi missed a straight ball for **** sake.:eek:

And well that Rehman innings....,1 of 12 balls:eek::pac:


Such a shame that Malik and Razzaq are out of form because they are light when it comes to batting. It may be worth having a look at Azam.

boksmashoffice

feck sake. That is one that got away. Once it got down to a 20 over game, i really fancied Pakistan, however the selfish self destruct button was pressed. Rehman (are you kidding me should be a 11). The brains trust got that wrong. Bring on friday for more misery. The real number 1 team will show this big headed english team how to play in the summer. Hopefully a drubbing of NZ should put us no 1. All we need now is nationalise Ajmal. The brits have been poaching, might aswell start as we have no decent spinner. (Tahir is crap). Due to the lack of options in spin, he looks good.

booth70

Why is Pakistan obsesessed with the Akmal clan?!!!....It seems that none of them can catch the ball!!!!

Having said that Cook has been brilliant and England thoroughly deserve the 2-0 lead