What is that woman up to?
What is that woman up to?
How did she even get there?
This is some proper attritional fare, never seen Misbah look so delighted.
Maybe we're looking to have a dart at them tonight.
Great partnership. Could really declare overnight. Pakistan aren't the sort of side to chase down 300+
My mate drunkenly told me he'd pay for a ticket if i went with him tomorrow, so I might get my white ass down to the Muslim no go zone of Birmingham and take in the cricket.
The poor dear ended up as a news story.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/36996724
TMS think we should bat for three overs.
I'd pull out now.
Great stuff from Moeen but now we'll have to wait for them both to get to 100 (or out).
5 dots and then Woakes pinches the strike.
:masterplan:
Thank Christ for that. 4 overs down the toilet though.
6 when you add the innings break. 312 in 90 overs or 343 in 84 was the choice? Hmm.
Yeah. I was being generous and giving them the Yasir over as a productive effort.
351 overs so far in the match. There should have been 360 (probably 367 by now). Are those overs just lost? That's a lot to have lost considering there has been no issue with weather or light in the match. Just fine teams at innings run rate for the overs they fail to bowl.
Nine down with Misbah 25*(168) hogging the strike at the close
Our over rate was an utter joke in the first innings, and the Misbah Express wasn't exactly rattling through Edgbaston Central on the fast rail yesterday either.Originally Posted by niko_cee
Aren't slow over-rates partly because of DRS and all that stuff?
Went here in Guargon (just outside Dehli) tonight. Batted for the first time in about 12 years on the simulator. A lot more tiring than I remember and I didn't even have to run.....
Walked outside to us having taken 4 quick wickets. Can't complain.
Yesterday I walked in at 48/7, hit an England under 14 spinner for six, and then had their fast bowler call me a prick mid-pitch for running at him every ball, B-Mac style.
We lost, but it was worth it.
Showboating against a 13 year old.
In a way, and quite a big one, I hope Pakistan can cling on here. Preferably 9 down and all over the shop at the close.
Don't have him play against the adults if them hitting him is going to make you whine.
Although charging him every ball is seriously lol
Wasn't he running at the fast bowler? I also assume/hope that was a former U14 and not a current one.
It's happening.
A current one. Kids are generally the best players in lower league cricket as they're on the way up and the only ones with a decent technique.Wasn't he running at the fast bowler? I also assume/hope that was a former U14 and not a current one.
10 overs with the second new ball is looking like it would have been nice at the moment.
Pakistan's bowling cost them that.
Wahab back for the Oval in place of Amir?
Cook's series strike rate is 70.68. Ha.
This middle order could be No.1 in the world in a few days. Combine that with the big crowds watching the WI-India tests at the minute and it's very much a golden time for test cricket.
It's got to the point where they're basically the opposite of the late 80s and early 90s, they just stick with people for the sake of sticking with them. James Vince is not going to magically turn into Ricky Ponting by virtue of simple continued selection.
Mayhem.
Someone seriously needs to tell Our Stuart that he is a bona fide No.11 nowadays.
Moeen will no doubt get a stinker after those two reviews.
Defo should be dropping Ali imo
Decent day in the end.
Something needs to be done about the continued loss of overs though. I don't see why they can't just play later or start earlier. TV, I guess.
I saw a tweet saying this is all very well but he should still be dropped because his spin isn't good enough. Oh how I laughed.
We're getting donned by the nightwatchman here.
That Unibet ad about cricket is worse than ebola.
Christ, bit of work to be done here.
Swashbuckling stuff again from Hales.
Turgid shit, fuck all to show for it, and a fucking war crime of a review.
Fuck off.
Pack Vince into the same taxi as Hales and give the driver a couple of hundred quid.
We're going to chuck this, aren't we?
Do you reckon?
Vince is just not up to it and if we take him to the subcontinent we may as well just concede now.
Who's the Next Cab Off The Rank?
Or do we just persist with Vince forever?
Borthwick? Jimmy's mate (Ansari)?
Anyway, I see Yasir's figured out that actually spinning the ball is a bad idea against English batsmen. Nothing like a deadly, slow straight non-spinning delivery to eviscerate a batting line-up.
It's been a cracking series. Can we just bin off the limited overs garbage and have a deciding test?
Obviously Broad is going to come in with a swashbuckling 11 to turn things around here but what's the lowest total a team has ever been set in the last innings?
I vaguely remember Jayasuriya and Atapattu staring down a mammoth fourth innings chase of 8 many years ago, against India I think.
6, as it turns out, Galle 2001. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/63943.html
Yeah, there's bound to be a few single digit 'chases'. Has anyone had to go out and knock a single off?
More interestingly, what's the lowest total that has failed to be passed in a fourth innings? It must be England bottling something horribly. That disaster in the UAE a few years ago springs to mind but I think we might have been set over 100 before folding to whatever it was we ended up with. I guess someone probably got rolled on an uncovered pitch by Deadly Derek once upon a time.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/62606.html
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/62533.html
A couple of 10 wicket wins with 1 run scored.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/eng...m;view=innings
Query of 10 and under.
Most recent on the list was in 2012
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/514034.html
Sri Lanka send a nightwatchman to open the innings at the end of the third day. He's out in the first over with 8 off 4 balls
Vince is just a crime against Test cricket at this point. Has every one of his dismissals been some form of loose shot outside off?
Pakistan are legends though, make no mistake.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/946905.html
Don't fear the future. It's almost here.
lol lol lol at Australia, and
No doubt everything will be fair dinkum cobber again when they are '2 for 541' in their next home Test on a farcically flat pitch as opposed to these cheating spin wickets.
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