**Official** Pakistan v New Zealand in the UAE 2014

[Spark]

They really should get a lot. There are enough players in the top 7 who know how to score big. But they'll need to be in better form than their bowling and fielding suggested....

Craig got a few to turn quite appreciably in his last spell with a knackered ball, I think the spinners will be a handful. Any top order batsman getting out to either of Pakistan's seamers should be tarred and feathered however....

I agree, they should. But the same could have been said -- and indeed was said -- of us.

 

[BeeGee]

NZ wickets down at stumps:

still not batting -
0 -
1 -
2 - BeeGee
3 - straw man
4 -
5 -
6 -
IT'S UTTERLY UTTERLY HOPELESS - walbi

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[Swingpanzee]

Hope Shehzad is okay.

 

[smash84]

So ahmed shahzad has a fracturrd skull.

 

[Dan]

"Get ready for a broken ****in' skull. Oh, it actually happened. ****. Hope you're ok mate."

 

[Dan]

In all seriousness, I hope Shehzad is alright. Head injuries are never something you want to see; must have hit him really badly given that he was wearing a helmet and it was Anderson.

 

[BeeGee]

Big no-ball. It's a fix or he put his marker in the wrong place.

 

[Prince EWS]

#shirtfront

 

[Howe_zat]

NZ wickets down at stumps:

still not batting -
0 -
1 - Howe
2 - BeeGee
3 - straw man
4 -
5 -
6 -
IT'S UTTERLY UTTERLY HOPELESS - walbi

 

[cnerd123]

Shehzad's dismissal looks like something straight out of Stick Cricket.

And that's a pretty ****ty helmet if it still led to a fracture. Daymn.

 

[Mike5181]

NZ wickets down at stumps:

still not batting -
0 -
1 - Howe, Mike
2 - BeeGee
3 - straw man
4 -
5 -
6 -
IT'S UTTERLY UTTERLY HOPELESS - walbi

 

[Dan]

NZ wickets down at stumps:

still not batting -
0 - Dan and his hopeless agribusiness optimism
1 - Howe, Mike
2 - BeeGee
3 - straw man
4 -
5 -
6 -
IT'S UTTERLY UTTERLY HOPELESS - walbi

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[Flametree]

I agree, they should. But the same could have been said -- and indeed was said -- of us.

This track looks flatter than either of the ones Australia played on, and I'm not just saying that because Pakistan just got 550-3. And we have more recent history of batting pretty well to save a game...

 

[vic_orthdox]

McCullum needs to get his pad the hell out of the way here.

 

[BeeGee]

Spin on after only 3 overs, What a pitch.

 

[Prince EWS]

Spin on after only 3 overs, What a pitch.

I was actually surprised Hafeez didn't bowl the first over of the innings, especially once Latham took strike.

 

[Dan]

I was actually surprised Hafeez didn't bowl the first over of the innings, especially once Latham took strike.

Yeah, I was expecting him to bowl earlier than the 6th over.

 

[Prince EWS]

Hope Latham gets out early tomorrow because the commentators mispronouncing his name all day is going to annoy the **** out of me otherwise.

 

[Gnske]

A pity this from New Zealand, the aim of the series should have been to at least not lose as badly as Australia.

At least they're ahead on the broken skulls department.

 

[Mike5181]

Hope Latham gets out early tomorrow because the commentators mispronouncing his name all day is going to annoy the **** out of me otherwise.

"That's a good shot from Williams"

^ Most annoying one for me.