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

[nightprowler10]

Someone seriously has to GIF that. Incredible.

Are you talking about the dodge?

 

[Spark]

Are you talking about the dodge?

Nah, Misbah tricking keeper and slip into charging down the legside then dinking one at catchable height through a suddenly vacant slip.

 

[Spark]

Younis (y)

 

[Black_Warrior]

And that's 9,000 test runs for the great man

 

[Agent Nationaux]

:wub Younis

 

[Black_Warrior]

Yeah this is certainly not what I expected to wake up to. Wahab/Yasir bowled well or **** shots? Or both?

Wahab bowled brilliantly to knock over Root and Stokes, Buttler was a bad shot, then Yasir capitalised on the pressure created on new batsmen and knocked over the tail.

Yasir still not at his best though, but hopefully with some overs under his belt, will be better in the second innings

 

[MW1304]

Yeah this is certainly not what I expected to wake up to. Wahab/Yasir bowled well or **** shots? Or both?

Haha you see this is much more like what I'd been expecting to wake up to all series.

 

[Spark]

Here we go:

 

[Burner]

Haha, that is brilliant!

 

[wpdavid]

Here we go:

Cricket's equivalent of the Cruyff turn, judging by the sight of slip and keeper heading in the wrong direction. Brilliant stuff.

 

[Spark]

I've seen people change their minds mid-sweep and hit it through there before, ofc, but I've never seen someone deliberately trick slip into running down the legside first.

 

[harsh.ag]

Cricket's equivalent of the Cruyff turn, judging by the sight of slip and keeper heading in the wrong direction. Brilliant stuff.

Like a fire engine going to the wrong fire

 

[Black_Warrior]

Here we go:

I've seen people change their minds mid-sweep and hit it through there before, ofc, but I've never seen someone deliberately trick slip into running down the legside first.

Thanks for that.. Guy loves trolling doesn't he

 

[nightprowler10]

Here we go:

Yeah that's what I meant as well. Didn't realize it was deliberate at full speed. I think Younis had played a sweep a few balls before and the slip did the same thing. Brilliant.

 

[91Jmay]

Awful collapse, Bairstow to keeper and Taylor in please. We've made same mistake as Australia in picking a flashy middle order that can only play one way.

 

[Spark]

Awful collapse, Bairstow to keeper and Taylor in please. We've made same mistake as Australia in picking a flashy middle order that can only play one way.

That wasn't really the problem with our middle order tbf.

 

[nightprowler10]

This pitch has a tendency to flatten out by day 5. Anything below 450 could be uncomfortable for us.

 

[Spark]

Medic in place, please, I think Stokes might have a stroke.

 

[Cabinet96]

OK that was very Perth 2013.

 

[Neil Pickup]

This pitch has a tendency to flatten out by day 5. Anything below 450 could be uncomfortable for us.

That implies we will get to Day 5.

Presently the best chance of that happening is our letting Misbah & Younus bat for the whole of Day 4, by refusing to go for catches and things like that. Buttler's mind's not in it at the moment, is it? Taylor must come in for him next time around with Bairstow taking the gloves. I know ODI and Test cricket are confused far too easily by selectors and public alike but I can't help thinking back to the September series when the only times we looked like posting scores were when we had Taylor batting like a proper batsman and building an innings; at the moment only Cook & Root can do that in this side and collapses like today's are going to repeat themselves without some further ballast.