*Official* Pakistan in England 2010

[GIMH]

Haha

 

[Jono]

Pakistan

Just such a dumb cricket team.

 

[King Pietersen]

Well bowled Umar.

 

[kingkallis]

This lad surely can bat...

 

[Jacknife]

Good to see we won without Morgan.

 

[King Pietersen]

England win again. Might as well hand us the WC now. Not the best performance, but the result is what matters. Strauss MOTM, but Jimmeh deserves a pat on the back, his spell of 10 overs was impressive.

 

[kingkallis]

Without Aamer and Asif this bowling line up does not look good.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Been an entertaining game, tbh.

May or may not be interesting to note Pakistan sent down no no-balls today.

 

[Jono]

Since his injury Gul really has been poo, not only normally but at the death, which used to be his speciality.

 

[Jacknife]

England move up to 2nd in the ICC ODi rankings.

 

[BoyBrumby]

England move up to 2nd in the ICC ODi rankings.

Insane.

Highest we've been since the rankings came in, I'd guess?

 

[Jarquis]

England move up to 2nd in the ICC ODi rankings.

Further evidence the rankings are poo, as clearly we're the best side in the world.

 

[Jacknife]

Further evidence the rankings are poo, as clearly we're the best side in the world.

 

[grecian]

It's odd having a competent one-day side, I'm not sure I know how to deal with it TBH. Been decades.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Indeed so. Feels faintly unreal.

I'm taking solace in the fact we have a spot-fixing scandal on which to blame Pakistan underperforming on rather than ascribe any inprovement to our chaps tho.

Mind you if the Atherton/Stewart/Pringle/Gough round table is anything to go by we can hopefully rely on the selectors to restore our natural order of mediocrity. Wright & Bopara clearly >>>>>>>Trott & Strauss.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

It's odd having a competent one-day side, I'm not sure I know how to deal with it TBH. Been decades.

This is pretty much my feeling. Englands cricket team arent meant to do well. Its just not the done thing!

 

[Jarquis]

With Yardy moving around in his crease, there's just so much going on looks great.

When he moved to off and just chipped it over the infield, Michael Vaughan made the girliest noise I've ever heard on C5 highlights.

 

[Burgey]

This is pretty much my feeling. Englands cricket team arent meant to do well. Its just not the done thing!

Fear not, normal service will resume come November.

 

[Days of Grace]

Glad that Strauss scored that century, tbh. Proved a lot of doubters wrong as to his ODI batting and proves once and for all that quality opening batsmen can do the job fairly well in ODI cricket as long as they score above 80S/R if they play a longish innings.

 

[Athlai]

Strauss is quality.