Alli saved the day. He kickstarted everything after it all went a bit stale when Stokes was too busy just making sure he got his moment at the end.
Alli saved the day. He kickstarted everything after it all went a bit stale when Stokes was too busy just making sure he got his moment at the end.
Nope. Stokes paced it like a champion. We were always winning as long as he was still there. Had a bit of luck, especially when they should have run him out from close range, but from the moment he came to the crease his partner always had licence.
Indian cricket twitter new asterisk is that Shaheen was injured so it doesn’t count. Love it.
They couldn't really win today, bless their cotton socks. After we beat them the other day there was a lot of 'Yeah but we have a higher GDP' going around, which is a new one. Not per capita, obvs.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...full-scorecard
Questions surely have to be asked about whether Arunachal Pradesh truly belong in 'Elite Group C'.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/63726442
You love to see it.
He's such an aggro dickhead who would want him anywhere near their dressing room?
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Rehan Ahmed added to the Test squad for the Pakistan series. Got to be good for his development.
For some reason the Test team are playing the Lions in Abu Dhabi. The 1st XI teed off, hitting 500 in under 80 overs. Ahmed got severe punishment especially so you wouldn't think he'd get a go in Pakistan, just there for experience.
Hameed playing Anderson and Robinson off his piece in reply as well.
I hope this warm-up game isn't indicative of the upcoming series. A spin trio of Leach, Livingstone and Jacks fills me with dread.
It's Bazball. Who needs spin when you can just smash 500 and bowl them out with ease.
Zak Crawley still going strong.
That line up looks 1 bowler short - relying on Ben Stokes bowling 20 overs a day seems a stretch
Livingstone as the second spinner and batting 8 in Test cricket is absolutely barmy, but who am I to doubt Bazball.
Looking forward to catching some Naseem and Haris Rauf early in the mornings.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/...ve-first-test/
Everything in this is gold, but this paragraph is one of the most magnificent things ever written on English cricket:
Rob Key, the England team director and Neil Snowball, the ECB’s managing director of county cricket, are holding talks with Ramiz Raja, the chairman of the PCB. about potentially putting back the start of the game after it emerged on Wednesday that more than half of the squad are ill, despite bringing their own chef on tour, who is also one of those feeling sick.
Rapid start from Crawley. Must need the toilet.
Waking up and enjoying a Tapal Tea moment toasting this partnership.
Tapal Tea
I unapologetically love cricket in Pakistan, even though it's pretty Mickey Mouse a lot of the time.
It's Haris Rauf's Test debut?
We will definitely need the depth of Livingstone at 8 here. Even if we get 1000, Pakistan will get more than us. Our bowling looks pretty toothless for these conditions.
What a bizarre scorecard to wake up to. Are they playing indoors?
This might be the flattest pitch I've ever seen.
200-0 in 30 overs. What is this?
You say our attack's no good, and maybe it isn't, but if you score this quickly you have twice as long to bowl them out. It's mental.
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Thought the same.
Was it meant to be Keaton Jennings replacing Lees and he got ill, or is Duckett now the man? Which seems an odd choice for home cricket.
On the radio Aggers (or some sub-Aggers drone) said that Foakes was the only change with Jacks coming in.
Some early Indian seethe writing in to crcinfo. You can almost taste the fear."Attacking cricket is most welcome. But going hell for leather in test cricket is just hiding the fact that England cannot play time. This will not always work and to see an international team taking this route is not welcome! It's a game played over 5 days. No point getting all out for 350 in 60 overs on a flat wicket."
I saw that.
Any danger of Pakistan preparing something different for the other 2 Tests? Seems like 0-0 all over barring some major deterioration.
It's going to be a long series for those Indian fans.
For the real gold you have to read the comments on other games, in this case Aus v WI.
Shankar: "Working in office. Wanted a flavour of an actual test match and not Bazball and hence shifted from Pak vs Eng to this tab. Proper testmatch with run rate of just about 3 per over. Also wanted to say hello to Jr. Chanderpaul."
Let's take a look at India's most recent outing against Sri Lanka.
1st Test won by an innings in three days. In their only innings they knocked up 574 @ 4.5 rpo. Pant out slogging in the 90's with a strike rate of 100.
2nd Test skittled for 252 trying to get on with it, again @ 4.5 rpo. Iyer (four sixes) out in the 90's slogging with a strike rate of 100. Second innings 300 declared again @ 4.5 rpo. Pant with a 30-ball 50. Again won in three days.
Salty cunts can't even see the wood for the trees.
Are you sure you're not being trolled by these comments? It's hard to tell really.
Yeah, it must be said, the Indians really do have Ben and Jimmy on strings it seems.
You've never met Indian cricket fans have you? Life and death for them.
Sound bunch of lads. Pure passion and nothing else
Indians are incapable of trolling. Wright Thompson (the great US sports writer) once did a piece on Indian cricket and described them as a 'pre-ironic society'. Always struck me as a particularly perceptive comment. http://www.espn.com/espn/eticket/sto...110329/cricket
India still believes in the simple beauty of success.
Irony and cynicism come next.
"Irony requires a certain amount of self-confidence," Lydia says. "You have to have built enough of an identity to turn around and reject it, or to laugh at it. I think that's something that takes time."
Harry Brook is an absolute joy to watch.
I'm sure the comms have mentioned it but the 120 year old record for fastest England hundred could go here.
Needs a 6 next ball to do it outright.
And Jessop stays top of the pile.
Nope, Jessop lives, for another few hours at least.
It would be the most mental record in cricket/sport if it wasn't for the even more mental Bannerman one.
The brilliance of the Bannerman one is the fact it was the first ever Test.
Also, in isolation, 67.34% doesn't seem like a ridiculous percentage to have. But extrapolating it out to his 165* out of 245 and it seems fairly insurmountable.
It's the fact that it was the first innings of the first Test, took place before Jack the Ripper had had his first danger wank, and has never been beaten since in the almost infinite number of Test innings scenarios.
Is that a record number of runs in a day? Also, 75 overs? Is that some sort of low over record for a full day of test cricket?
Zahid Mahmood got pasted for 160. That's got to be some sort of record, either for overs bowled (23) or runs conceded in a day.
It's mental that they play in the middle of the winter in Pakistan. It was 4pm their time when it was getting dark.
5th most for runs in a day. Although 3 of the top 4 occurred in the 20s and 30s when they were bowling about 140 overs a day, and the other was Sri Lanka hitting 509 against Bangladesh in 2002, where they faced 107 overs.
As fun as the batting was, maybe picking 3 bowlers wasn’t a viable strategy.
Given the number of overs it will take them to get to 657, and the amount of utter filth spin involved in our 'bowling attack', we might be about to see one of the worst couple of days of Test cricket ever. BAZBALL!
I also love how our two seamers are in one case 40 years old, and in the other case with well-documented fitness problems. It's like a club team when the opening bowlers are both on a stag weekend.
Trying to catch up on the test and I'm sat watching the Morrisville Samp Army [wtf?] toiling against the New York Strikers [wtf?] in front of nobody in the middle of some godforsaken desert in 'the fabulous T10 format' [credit the commentator for that billing], with Rashid Khan seething himself to death over not getting a stonewall LBW decision. What is the point of this shite?
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