[Cricket] Pakistan-England Test Series

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[jakarta]

Then out for 111

Yes, Nelson strikes again!

All results possible as long as Foakes gets England close to 300...

 

[jakarta]

Pakistan not very good at reviews - all 3 lost...

 

[jakarta]

300 up, Foakes hopefully cementing his place, kept very well and then gets 60 runs.

 

[dazzer6666]

300 up, Foakes hopefully cementing his place, kept very well and then gets 60 runs.

Easily our best keeper….def should keep his place (although Pope did a decent job).

 

[jakarta]

350 up, their two spinners have gone for over 270 runs...

 

[shingle]

50 run lead. Christ i'll take that, well done lads.

 

[Albion in the north]

Great test series this.

 

[banjo]

Set up nicely now.

 

[jakarta]

Not going to go 5 days is it? Will be interesting to see how our young leggie does...

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Easily our best keeper….def should keep his place (although Pope did a decent job).

I think it would be self defeating to make Pope take the gloves just when we finally seem to have found somebody who doesn't spontaneously combust when put at 3.
Might be a case for Bairstow to do the job if he comes back in the same sort of form he had last season, but there's no guarantee of that.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Not going to go 5 days is it? Will be interesting to see how our young leggie does...

At least it's lasted longer than the Australia v South Africa test at the Gabba.
Reading some of the comments from the South African team, they seem to have convinced themselves that all the pitches they play on are hopelessly bowler friendly, while all the pitches other teams play on are far too flat.
I suppose they can't just come out and admit that their batting's shite.

 

[keaton]

I think it would be self defeating to make Pope take the gloves just when we finally seem to have found somebody who doesn't spontaneously combust when put at 3.
Might be a case for Bairstow to do the job if he comes back in the same sort of form he had last season, but there's no guarantee of that.

While I wouldn't agree with it before, the way we play now there's an argument you may as well put Bairstow to open

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

While I wouldn't agree with it before, the way we play now there's an argument you may as well put Bairstow to open

Put Buttler in at the top with him as well
I think that at any given time, enough people are ill or injured that there isn't actually much of a problem fitting people in.
Which just leaves the lack of regular runs from the openers as a problem.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Put Buttler in at the top with him as well
I think that at any given time, enough people are ill or injured that there isn't actually much of a problem fitting people in.
Which just leaves the lack of regular runs from the openers as a problem.

We would be 24 for 2 from the first over. Both caught at the wicket going for another 6 and hopelessly misjudging a moving new ball.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

We would be 24 for 2 from the first over. Both caught at the wicket going for another 6 and hopelessly misjudging a moving new ball.

No.
Bairstow would be bowled through the gate driving at a ball that nipped back.

 

[Eeyore]

Being a cricket know it all, I once pulled TMS up on the three centuries in a series thing.

It seems forgotten that Allan Lamb scored three against that West Indies team in the home series of 1984. He did little else in that series, but it was quite an achievement in what otherwise was a disaster summer.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Being a cricket know it all, I once pulled TMS up on the three centuries in a series thing.

It seems forgotten that Allan Lamb scored three against that West Indies team in the home series of 1984. He did little else in that series, but it was quite an achievement in what otherwise was a disaster summer.

What had TMS claimed that you objected to?

 

[Eeyore]

What had TMS claimed that you objected to?

I don't remember exactly, but it may have been something about no English player managing four centuries in a summer or something like that. Lamb added another century in the single Test against Sri Lanka that August (Which England would have lost had it not been for the weather).

It's like we try to airbrush that summer out.

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I don't remember exactly, but it may have been something about no English player managing four centuries in a summer or something like that. Lamb added another century in the single Test against Sri Lanka that August (Which England would have lost had it not been for the weather).

It's like we try to airbrush that summer out.

Niche
Always enjoy looking through past series to see who had surprisingly bad series and scored lots of runs at the same time.
Vaughan's 02/03 Ashes is another classic - three big hundreds and a next highest score of 34. Two ducks.