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***Official*** Pakistan and England in UAE
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Agent Nationaux
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Hope it reverses.
Prince EWS
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If England are batting long enough for it to reverse, you've lost.
Agent Nationaux
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Our spinners don't rely on spin as much as Swann and Monty.
Daemon
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You're assuming some of the guys out there don't have bottlecaps, long fingernails and sharp canines..If England are batting long enough for it to reverse, you've lost.
Agent Nationaux
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Bottle Tops would be fine by me.If England are batting long enough for it to reverse, you've lost.
Prince EWS
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Haha and that one near enough rolled along the ground.
I definitely think Misbah made the right call. The way England have batted against spin, England's general inexperience chasing fourth innings targets, the way the pitch played in the first two Tests and even the way it's playing now definitely all suggest that having England bat last would've been ideal. Top order just needed to stand up in slightly-harder-than-normal first session conditions and couldn't do it. Nothing in the pitch to have created this scoreline at all; just really good bowling exposing some average batting (/batsmen
).
I definitely think Misbah made the right call. The way England have batted against spin, England's general inexperience chasing fourth innings targets, the way the pitch played in the first two Tests and even the way it's playing now definitely all suggest that having England bat last would've been ideal. Top order just needed to stand up in slightly-harder-than-normal first session conditions and couldn't do it. Nothing in the pitch to have created this scoreline at all; just really good bowling exposing some average batting (/batsmen
).
Agent Nationaux
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Gone
Agent Nationaux
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I thought that was plumb, but it's umpire's call.
Daemon
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Exactly. This as well as Anderson's last wicket. Why was it umpires call when more than half the ball was hitting the leg stump?
Agent Nationaux
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That bowling would have also destroyed the Aussie line-up, since they can't play swing just like the rest of the world.Haha and that one near enough rolled along the ground.
I definitely think Misbah made the right call. The way England have batted against spin, England's general inexperience chasing fourth innings targets, the way the pitch played in the first two Tests and even the way it's playing now definitely all suggest that having England bat last would've been ideal. Top order just needed to stand up in slightly-harder-than-normal first session conditions and couldn't do it. Nothing in the pitch to have created this scoreline at all; just really good bowling exposing some average batting (/batsmen
Prince EWS
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Less than half was hitting leg stump tbh. Look at the middle of the seam.
Prince EWS
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Erm, cool?
Spark
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cool story bro.
Daemon
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Probably saw it wrongly.
That 'less than 50% of the ball hitting the stump = umpires call' rule is a bit weird imo. Fair enough if it's used when the batsmen is fully forward when he's struck on the pads, because there's quite a distance between the point of impact and the stumps for hawkeye to predict. But when the batsmen is caught on the back foot in the crease then that 50% should be a bit lower imo.