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

[AndyZaltzHair]

Must be a tiny nose that.

 

[cnerd123]

This game is set to end before the other two lol

 

[flibbertyjibber]

For England, huge decisions to be made ahead of SA tour ?

Not really, we will go back to 4 pacemen and a spinner who can bat with Bairstow as keeper. Hales will open (or he should as he was the other opener on this tour) and the only question is whether Stokes is fit or not.

For all the talk of dropping Bell I doubt we will in a series away to the top side in the world.

 

[SeamUp]

Not really, we will go back to 4 pacemen and a spinner who can bat with Bairstow as keeper. Hales will open (or he should as he was the other opener on this tour) and the only question is whether Stokes is fit or not.

For all the talk of dropping Bell I doubt we will in a series away to the top side in the world.

I just read what you guys have been chatting about.

Fair point. Think ahead of your next summer will be when big decisions could be made.

Opener, Bell, keeper, Stokes' role & front line spinner possibly needs addressing.

 

[smash84]

smali: pakistan have their nose ahead

OS: this is not funny

 

[test cricketer]

Ive followed the pakistan vs england test from when it started and have literally only missed a few balls, so i wanted to watch the whole game, but with south africa playing today i thought i wouldnt be able to watch, but thanks to some briliant bowling i should be able to watch south africa without missing much of the pak vs eng test

 

[wpdavid]

Called England losing by 150+ back after Misbah got set. A massive second innings collapse always seemed on the cards.

Up to a point. In a way, this would have been understandable if they'd been invited to chase 500 or bat out 2 days for a draw. But in theory, there was a chance of getting close to this target, but they've been absolutely execrable and Cook must be wondering why he bothers.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

If we'd been told we would have 88 at drinks and Cook was still there we would have probably taken that before play started, don't think we'd have thought we could have lost 4 wickets so tamely like we did. Might last till lunch thanks to this pair though.

 

[fredfertang]

This has been as depressing a session of cricket as I have ever seen

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Last 12 overs have been ok, it was the opening half hour.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Well battled Adil, unlucky.

Showed more fight than most of the rest.

 

[StephenZA]

wrong thread

 

[Stapel]

This has been as depressing a session of cricket as I have ever seen

It's the only session in this test that has really put things firmly in one direction. A bit of a shame for this otherwise very balanced test.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Well batted skipper, shame nobody else other than Ali and Rashid bothered to join in.

 

[Black_Warrior]

I missed the 3 early wickets today

Taylor and Root..poor batting or great deliveries?

 

[Black_Warrior]

Woah. Pakistan, not bad

Ok your piece of **** team is now number 2 in test cricket. Can you please go a little easy on the gambhiring?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

I missed the 3 early wickets today

Taylor and Root..poor batting or great deliveries?

Poor batting by Root (shouldn't be going right back on day 5) and a good ball to get Taylor.

 

[theegyptian]

No point Stokes batting here if there is any chance of him worsening the injury

 

[theegyptian]

Cook played a reverse sweep 2 tests ago beefy

 

[Black_Warrior]

England's No. 3-8 have scored 8 runs in this innings.