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**Official** Pakistan and England in the UAE 2015/16

Black_Warrior

Cricketer Of The Year
But there is a difference between 2012 and this though. There was incredible bounce and turn in that series, even Panesar and Swann skittled out Pakistan for 99 in one of the games.

I have not seen that kind of turn and bounce in UAE since that series, and certainly not in this series based on what i have seen today.

So I wont expect games where Pakistan set England 140 and win by 50 runs.
 

Niall

International Coach
Well our batting has 2 players we can rely on and the rest will crumble in a heap like the last tour here.
Malik and Hafeez have batted like bosses all day, Yasir is out, Cook and Root are more than capable of batting for days on this pitch, just need a few others to hang around and they will be fine.
 

Black_Warrior

Cricketer Of The Year
Malik and Hafeez have batted like bosses all day, Yasir is out, Cook and Root are more than capable of batting for days on this pitch, just need a few others to hang around and they will be fine.
Also the fact that both were dropped, Hafeez got 2 lives in fact.
 

Black_Warrior

Cricketer Of The Year
Well the day went in favour of Pakistan although they didn't bat as well as the score suggests, and England didn't bowl as poorly as the score suggests.

England's fielding let them down though.
 

OverratedSanity

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Love seeing Bell be useless. Well, he usually is, but manages to downhill skii sometimes to convince people otherwise.
 

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
Bell doing what he nearly always does - contributing less than zero to the team effort.

Throw in the lost wicket due to a no ball - cos it must be really hard to keep part of your foot behind a line when you do it for a living - and it's not the most edifying start.
 

OverratedSanity

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There go Cricinfo with the "UAE is Pakistan's fortress" stuff again. One of the most dumb myths in cricket right now. They've been impressive in UAE no doubt, but I have no idea how their record there is looked upon by people as this incredible dominant one. SL, NZ and SA all managed to draw series there recently. Basically the only 2 teams they've dominated at "home" are Aus and England. Virtually every other team has gone there and done decently. In fact, Pak have only won 3 series out of 8 in UAE overall ffs.
 

Black_Warrior

Cricketer Of The Year
There go Cricinfo with the "UAE is Pakistan's fortress" stuff again. One of the most dumb myths in cricket right now. They've been impressive in UAE no doubt, but I have no idea how their record there is looked upon by people as this incredible dominant one. SL, NZ and SA all managed to draw series there recently. Basically the only 2 teams they've dominated at "home" are Aus and England. Virtually every other team has gone there and done decently. In fact, Pak have only won 3 series out of 8 in UAE overall ffs.
Yeah the UAE being Pakistan's fortress might be a bit overstated but Pakistan haven't lost a home series since 2007.

That's a better record than Australia, India, England and South Africa.
 
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OverratedSanity

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Yeah the UAE being Pakistan's fortress might be a bit overstated but Pakistan haven't lost a home series since 2007.

That's a better record than Australia, India and South Africa, 3 teams who have good home records.
They've all lost one series each. Big deal. They've also won plenty more. And you know the only reason Pak don't lose more home series is because they have so many 2-match ones. :p
 

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