***Official*** Pakistan and England in UAE

[Viscount Tom]

Remove Riaz from the next game by Poleaxing him.

I like Finn's thinking even if it does seem a tad off.

 

[Howe_zat]

These two consolidating well for Pakistan. Desperately need to break this partnership soon or we're in trouble.

/pakistanfanresponse

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Ajmal and Amir once put on a great last wicket stand against the Kiwi's and nearly won the match. Maybe Wahab and Ajmal can do it this time. And who better than England, who have lost ODI's in this situation before.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

These two are better than Fart and Malik.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Oh well.

Congrats England fans.

 

[Howe_zat]

Cook beats Pakistan by 7 runs.

 

[Turbinator]

Wow, just checked the score. Definitely pleased with the result. Yes I'm back to cheering for any team against Pakistan

But I have to say, I thought England would get blown away in the ODIs (4-0, 5-0, however many games these two are playing). Sure proved me wrong.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Don't worry Turbs. Cook had a good game and we have had our collapse. Back to normal from here. 3-1

 

[Viscount Tom]

Need any more sponsors and people to thank?

 

[Jacknife]

Some innings that from Cook, played all sorts of shots you wouldn't think of from Cook, brilliant stuff and lead the way to a very good win.
Finn is becoming something special imo, awesome opening spell from him and just blew the top four away. All the bowlers did a job and looked a good unit again, really pleasing stuff.

 

[Howe_zat]

What a hilariously over-sponsored presentation.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

All the sponsor's want to be on TV.

 

[Furball]

Cook as captain

19 matches, 893 runs @ 52.52, SR 93.21 2 100s, 7 50s

And continuing my "when Cook scores runs, he scores them quickly" theory:

Cook as captain when he scores 40+

64 (68)
60 (61)
48 (52)
119 (143)
95* (75)
80* (63)
50 (54)
60 (63)
60 (61)
137 (142)

SR: 98.85

 

[Howe_zat]

Cook as captain

19 matches, 893 runs @ 52.52, SR 93.21 2 100s, 7 50s

And continuing my "when Cook scores runs, he scores them quickly" theory:

Cook as captain when he scores 40+

64 (68)
60 (61)
48 (52)
119 (143)
95* (75)
80* (63)
50 (54)
60 (63)
60 (61)
137 (142)

SR: 98.85

That's not a theory, it's an observation.

 

[Prince EWS]

I reckon it's a bit of a useless stat myself. If he does that half the time but crawls to 10 (40) the other half then he's probably a net loss to the side. I'm not saying he does that, but well his overall strike rate in a given period will always be more telling than his strike rate when he scores 40+ only.

 

[grecian]

Cook as captain

19 matches, 893 runs @ 52.52, SR 93.21 2 100s, 7 50s

And continuing my "when Cook scores runs, he scores them quickly" theory:

Cook as captain when he scores 40+

64 (68)
60 (61)
48 (52)
119 (143)
95* (75)
80* (63)
50 (54)
60 (63)
60 (61)
137 (142)

SR: 98.85

shut up with your facts, beefy wants him dropped, so it must happen

 

[Jacknife]

Cook as captain

19 matches, 893 runs @ 52.52, SR 93.21 2 100s, 7 50s

And continuing my "when Cook scores runs, he scores them quickly" theory:

Cook as captain when he scores 40+

64 (68)
60 (61)
48 (52)
119 (143)
95* (75)
80* (63)
50 (54)
60 (63)
60 (61)
137 (142)

SR: 98.85

Crazy turnaround from him, looks a different player to what he used to in one day cricket. Even nowadays in times of high strike rates, that is very impressive.

 

[Howe_zat]

Also, here's other ODI opening batsmen as captain.

 

[Furball]

I reckon it's a bit of a useless stat myself. If he does that half the time but crawls to 10 (40) the other half then he's probably a net loss to the side. I'm not saying he does that, but well his overall strike rate in a given period will always be more telling than his strike rate when he scores 40+ only.

True. The reason I investigated it was purely because I was answering Pickup's question as to whether he's our best ODI batsman; one of the things I really like about Cook is his ability to score quickly without seeming to make much effort to do so. The reason I looked over his stats was because I wanted to check whether my impression of Cook scoring quickly when he makes a good score was actually true or if it was just a case of "I remember him doing it a couple of times, so therefore he's always done it."

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Cook's strike rate when he scores less than 50 is 66 and the strike rate when he scores less than 50 as a captain is 73.