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

[Pothas]

how the hell did cook make 2 centuries in a row?

bad bowling or something?

Or he is just good.

 

[smash84]

200+ is always tough for Pak to chase

 

[smash84]

Or he is just good.

Didn't know Cook was a good ODI player. Was he?

 

[Jayzamann]

I must have missed some banter here, Beefy didn't rate Cook as an ODI player by the looks(?)

 

[grecian]

Didn't know Cook was a good ODI player. Was he?

Better than any in your side, even with just his overall record, but incredible since he's been captain.

 

[slowfinger]

Tempo shifting a tad, 250 easily defendable IMO.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

We can chase this if we knock a few more wickets down.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Better than any in your side, even with just his overall record, but incredible since he's been captain.

Misbah has a better ODI record than Cook.

 

[Z-Man]

I can certainly bash Misbah now.

80+ singles in 38 overs is pathetic.
8 fielders on boundary yet conceding a boundary and 5 runs every over.
The heck is wrong with this guy?


Bring on whatmore.

 

[grecian]

I must have missed some banter here, Beefy didn't rate Cook as an ODI player by the looks(?)

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They need to be inventive and give the bowler something to think about - especially in one-day cricket.

It is one of the reasons I still don't think Alastair Cook should be in the one-day side, because he has no shots against the spinners. He has a slog sweep and that is it, and he doesn't even play that with huge confidence.

The ball isn't going to come on to him in this series. He won't be able to milk the bowling like he did in Australia.

He has to find the gaps and the pace off his bat.

There was no tempo when we batted in the Test matches, we just got as w nog bogged down, and that cannot happen in the one-dayers or we might as well go home now. Cook has got to come up with something more

 

[Neil Pickup]

Misbah has a better ODI record than Cook.

Talk me through his finest ODI century, please?

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Misbah is a very defensive captain.

 

[Z-Man]

Cook made 40 out of 102 by fours and the rest by single doubles.

:completefacepalm:

 

[Pothas]

Far wiser people, including Atherton thought the same when he became captain. He has done quite brilliantly to prove them wrong.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Talk me through his finest ODI century, please?

Still has a better record.

 

[grecian]

Misbah has a better ODI record than Cook.

I'm taking Strike-rate into account, obviously, it's where it's at nowadays apparently.

 

[Jayzamann]

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Ta mate

Hate being the type to roll in on the late train when it comes to stuff like this but anything involving Beefy is too good, you know there is a possibility for punches to be thrown.

 

[grecian]

Far wiser people, including Atherton thought the same when he became captain. He has done quite brilliantly to prove them wrong.

Yep, but this has been written recently, he had eradicated that problem before this series, I'm sure the reactionary **** will jump over the last sentence I quoted, and say "you see he did what I said, I caused this, don't criticise me, how many test runs or twitter followers have you got", the bumptious oaf.

 

[Viscount Tom]

I tend to not take Botham's opinions on cricket too seriously, I mean we are talking about a guy who doesn't think fitness is important for a modern cricketer.

Good knock by Ravi...christ did I really just type that?

 

[Pothas]

Yep, but this has been written recently, he had eradicated that problem before this series, I'm sure the reactionary **** will jump over the last sentence I quoted, and say "you see he did what I said, I caused this, don't criticise me, how many test runs or twitter followers have you got", the bumptious oaf.

Yeah oaf is definetly the word every comentary team needs one and as they go I find him particularly obnoxious, a prat but a harmless one.

As for our other opener, I think for the first time that they might actually drop Pieteren when Buttler is fit.