*Official* Pakistan in England 2010

[L Trumper]

second time in the series of a down the legside piece of ****

 

[pskov]

Still had the same technical deficiency on that dismissal. Very straight front leg causing his bat to push out away from his body.

 

[Athlai]

Not as bad as cook. Strauss got some think like 4 or 5 150s.
KP is definitely better, 158s , 140+s and a 226.. But cook is very poor in making 100s big.

Scores after 100

Pietersen - 126, 58, 58, 58, 52, 44, 42, 35, 34, 29, 15, 9, 2, 1, 0, 0
563 @ 35.19
Strauss - 77, 69, 61, 47, 42, 42, 37, 36, 29, 28, 28, 26, 23, 16, 12, 8, 6, 6
593 @ 32.94
Cook - 73 60, 39*, 27, 18, 18, 16, 10 (<that innings), 9*, 6, 5, 5, 4*
290 @ 29

 

[Scaly piscine]

Not as bad as cook. Strauss got some think like 4 or 5 150s.
KP is definitely better, 158s , 140+s and a 226.. But cook is very poor in making 100s big.

Strauss averages 32.94 after reaching 100. KP 35.18. Neither of those two have any not outs so not quite as bad as they look.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Scores after 100

Pietersen - 126, 58, 58, 58, 52, 44, 42, 35, 34, 29, 15, 9, 2, 1, 0, 0
563 @ 35.19
Strauss - 77, 69, 61, 47, 42, 42, 37, 36, 29, 28, 28, 26, 23, 16, 12, 8, 6, 6
593 @ 32.94
Cook - 73 60, 39*, 27, 18, 18, 16, 10 (<that innings), 9*, 6, 5, 5, 4
290 @ 26.36

The 4 for Cook was a not out, so he's averaging 29.

But yes it's yet another measure of how England batsmen just aren't professional or ruthless enough.

 

[Faisal1985]

Wow. Just logged on to cricinfo...Cook with a ton???? OK seriously how many did Kamran drop of off him?

 

[tooextracool]

Yep, been the case with England for a while now this not going on to get big 100s for England. If you want to look at examples of players who do make it count, look no further than Sangakkara and Jayawardhene. Wonder what their averages would be post 100

 

[tooextracool]

Is there really a point of Akmal standing up? Hes not going to catch it off Asif anyhow and I doubt hes going to be able to take the stumping

 

[Jacknife]

Ajmals action especially when he bowls the doosra reminds me a lot of a knuckle ball pitcher in baseball.

 

[Athlai]

Sangakkara - 187, 170, 132, 130, 122*, 119, 100*, 92, 85, 57*, 56*, 52, 44, 40, 38, 37, 30*, 28, 9, 5*, 4, 3, 0*
1500 @ 93.75

Jayawardene - 274, 175, 142, 140, 137, 113*, 95, 74, 67, 67, 66, 65, 50, 41, 39, 36, 36, 34, 27, 23, 19, 14, 7, 4, 4, 1*, 1, 0*
1751 @ 70

 

[Spark]

Is there really a point of Akmal standing up? Hes not going to catch it off Asif anyhow and I doubt hes going to be able to take the stumping

Think that over explains why.

 

[tooextracool]

They're trying to make sure Pietersen doesnt walk down the track to Asif, which is why Akmal is up. Not sure if that makes sense because hes almost always looked clueless against Asif whenever hes adopted that strategy. If anything I would encourage him to do it more often.

 

[Faisal1985]

They're trying to make sure Pietersen doesnt walk down the track to Asif, which is why Akmal is up. Not sure if that makes sense because hes almost always looked clueless against Asif whenever hes adopted that strategy. If anything I would encourage him to do it more often.

Plus i think it has a lot to do with Kamran showing to the selectors that he is a "good" enough keeper.... which is a plain joke...the guy lacks stamina for test cricket...

For the keeping Pieterson in the crease...it may actually work to Pieterson's own advantage....

Asif is wicketless and that is bothering me big time....

 

[tooextracool]

Great delivery that from Ajmal, huge step up from Kaneria this man.

Another failure for Pietersen and hes running on very short rope.

 

[Jacknife]

Very good delivery that,trust KP to get a jaffa.

 

[King Pietersen]

****ing hell. Pietersen is really starting to bug me now. Looks uncharacteristically tentative at the crease, never looks settled at the crease and then keeps chucking his wicket away playing defensive shots to decent, but not magnificent deliveries. Don't get me wrong, that was a good delivery from Ajmal, it did turn; but it wasn't a jaffer. It was an off-spinner that actually turned. He should have played it better. When is he finally going to score another century?

 

[GIMH]

Pietersen needs a score at Lord's, he really, really does

 

[superkingdave]

Calapso now

 

[Jacknife]

****ing hell. Pietersen is really starting to bug me now. Looks uncharacteristically tentative at the crease, never looks settled at the crease and then keeps chucking his wicket away playing defensive shots to decent, but not magnificent deliveries. Don't get me wrong, that was a good delivery from Ajmal, it did turn; but it wasn't a jaffer. It was an off-spinner that actually turned. He should have played it better. When is he finally going to score another century?

I don't know about that, no other ball had spun that much,it was a jaffa imo,but I agree this slump has gone on too long.As i type Trotts gone.

 

[vcs]

I thought Pietersen was finally looking decent today.

Trott gone and Pakistan back in it. Prior still to come though...