International cricket thread

Happy4all

Masood has batted well.

what would be par on this pitch? 360?

Mysterypunter

Happy4all wrote: »

Masood has batted well.

what would be par on this pitch? 360?

Hard to know, only 3 players got past 20. Competitive as it is I'd say

Strumms

Yes I was thinking the same.

Weird looking scorecard...Pakistan 312/8.. yet only 4 batsmen in double figures. Mad stuff.

Happy4all

Strumms wrote: »

Yes I was thinking the same.

Weird looking scorecard...Pakistan 312/8.. yet only 4 batsmen in double figures. Mad stuff.

makes for an exciting test

y0ssar1an22

shocking start here by eng. 12/3

MFPM

Phenomenal bowling by Pakistan....12/3...Stokes Gone!

Mysterypunter

Good stuff from Pakistan, England in ribbons

Strumms

Root had a strike rate there of 7.89... unheard of haha

MFPM

Root gone now...1 more wicket and Pakistan into England's tail.

Happy4all

Root gone

62/4...England in trouble here

Strumms

Pakistan bowled well but some of the shots that the English lads played really contributed to their own downfall. Root, Stokes...were the only two I watched but were poor shots.

Gillespy

England up against it. Awful after lunch, throwing the game away with rubbish bowling after being excellent in the morning session. Half expected a collapse first up. Pakistan well on top and deserve to be. Pope England's best hope of making a game of this, few partnerships with Buttler, Woakes and Bess. Broad might come off again and who knows.

Strumms

England really need to get through to lunch without loosing another wicket. They can do that with another 70 runs on the board say 160/4... try press on after lunch to up and over 200 they can try and push onto a par score or thereabouts... looking at the scoreboard they are certainly a couple of wickets down more than they’ll be comfortable with.

Challenging day ahead though especially for the bowlers with temperatures in Manchester getting up to 28/29 degrees with no rain forecast and with little or wind to speak of. Interesting day ahead. The likelihood is the morning session will be absolutely crucial to dictating the outcome.

Mysterypunter

Strumms wrote: »

Pakistan bowled well but some of the shots that the English lads played really contributed to their own downfall. Root, Stokes...were the only two I watched but were poor shots.

Stokes was just beaten by a ball that was too good, Abbas is accurate and moves the ball wherever he wants it to go, not even quick, just accuracy and variation.

Gillespy

Stokes got a dream delivery, probably unplayable but I don't like how he walks at the ball at the start of his innings.

Inquitus

Now the shine has gone off the new ball, Butler and Pope are rebuilding quite nicely for England, they really need a big partnership here. Only the one wicket between Pakistan and the tail!

MFPM

Pope gone! Into the tail.

Inquitus

MFPM wrote: »

Pope gone! Into the tail.

Aye 200 seems a long way off now!

Dave0301

Butler bowled. England could really struggle from here if the Pakistan bowlers keep up the good standard.

Strumms

Pakistan have bowled seriously well.. threatening line and length just around off stump. No real width, and all with pace.

I say right now, England would bite your hand off for another 80 runs.

Strumms

Wokes gone, looked to have ran out of patience and tried to pull a very full delivery. Pakistan bowlers in the last 6 overs had been turning the screw but nothing to admire about that shot, careless.

Mysterypunter

9 down, still over 100 behind. Gloomy outlook for England

Mysterypunter

219, defecit of 107.

Strumms

6-1. Poor delivery but a poorer shot and an easy take for Butler down the leg side. England needed a good start, now they’ve got one can they capitalize and apply real pressure.

MFPM

Pakistan two down....Abid just gave his wicket away, terrible shot and no need to paly it in the situation.

Inquitus

England will struggle to chase down 200 in their 2nd innings

MFPM

Babar gone for 5....not great batting by Pakistan.

MFPM

Azhar gone now, another poor shot, 63/4....this is woeful batting by Pakisatn, it's not even like it's outstanding bowling.

StackSteevens

MFPM wrote: »

Azhar gone now, another poor shot, 63/4....this is woeful batting by Pakisatn, it's not even like it's outstanding bowling.

Looks as though it may be time to contact the ICC's anti-corruption team!

A couple of those dismissals were too dumb to be credible.

MFPM

StackSteevens wrote: »

Looks as though it may be time to contact the ICC's anti-corruption team!

A couple of those dismissals were too dumb to be credible.

Very true.