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

[flibbertyjibber]

He was never going to have much joy on day 1, few leg spinners do.

Exactly but some on here were happy to put the boot in.

 

[morgieb]

Unibet pay less for an England win than for a draw now.

So do bet365.

That seems a stretch. Good chance of bad light knocking off a few overs.

 

[duffer]

Fusion and nightprowler will love waking up to this.

 

[harsh.ag]

Wtf?? How many overs left for real??

 

[theegyptian]

If they knew they would get 19 overs in youd still go cook and ali. It's more likely that they get 10-15 so I'd go Buttler and someone. Probably Root.

 

[harsh.ag]

How they wish they had Hales right now haha !

 

[morgieb]

Wtf?? How many overs left for real??

Minimum of 21. In practice given light etc. probably a bit less.

 

[Pothas]

Moeen and Cook to open surely? Was the ODI opening partnership this time last year.

Edit: Or even Bell instead of Cook.

I am happy with Cook but Bell after that first innings?? As I say Root is the obvious one for me.

 

[Cabinet96]

If they knew they would get 19 overs in youd still go cook and ali. It's more likely that they get 10-15 so I'd go Buttler and someone. Probably Root.

Yeah, I hadn't been thinking about the light actually. This will still be really hard on this pitch.

 

[Pothas]

How they wish they had Hales right now haha !

Nah would just fail to rotate the strike and get out for 16 or something.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

Yeah it's 50 minutes with Pakistan slowing the over rate as much as possible within the laws.

 

[Niall]

****ing hell Pakistan... Do you realize that all that you worked for these past few days will be for nought because you couldn't put your bat down?!

Its shambolic really, always dangerous when you focus on such a poor effort you take away from the winning side, but that was absolute ****e from Pakistan.

Up their with the time when struggled past 50 against Australia.

 

[Black_Warrior]

So is this still bad for test cricket?

 

[91Jmay]

10-12 overs maximum I would have said. Will be extremely hard with no field restrictions. Rashid bowled superbly though, delighted with how team have acquitted themselves.

 

[harsh.ag]

So around 10 overs then. Woah they need to hit out from the get go.

 

[GIMH]

Aw **** am out. Could be incredible if we do this

 

[LegionOfBrad]

So is this still bad for test cricket?

4 days of absolute tripe doesn't make up for today imo.

 

[Pratters]

Eight or so overs practically. Will be epic if they chase it.

 

[theegyptian]

Nah would just fail to rotate the strike and get out for 16 or something.

Nah this would be great. It doesn't matter if he was out. He'd just slog. He might get you 30 off 10 balls here.

Not that it matters.

 

[Pothas]

4 days of absolute tripe doesn't make up for today imo.

Does if England win. I know it is not does not make it a good pitch but sport is often long periods of boredom with an amazing conclusion.