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

[Black_Warrior]

But England lost at home to Australia. Bangladesh won at home against India, Pakistan and South Africa, not to mention bowling out South Africa twice for 160, the same South Africa that was blasting 400 runs in India recently.

I am acknowledging that England under Morgan post World Cup have improved. But they are still behind Bangladesh as an ODI side.

If Bangladesh were to play Australia in an ODI series now at home, they would be favourites. And if they ended up losing 2-3, it wouldn't be considered a 'success for competing', but it would be an outright failure. That's the difference between the two sides now.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Well Shehzad coming in was always on the cards. But in that case they should have dropped Sarfraz and played Rizwan as the keeper as now they only have 4 specialist bowlers.

 

[weldone]

England will bat first. 240+ will trouble Pakistan.

 

[Black_Warrior]

^ More like 210+

 

[WalkingWicket]

This is such a troll knock from Jason Roy - two nicked boundaries, plenty of edges and plays and misses. Would love to see him make a really jammy 50.

 

[91Jmay]

But England lost at home to Australia. Bangladesh won at home against India, Pakistan and South Africa, not to mention bowling out South Africa twice for 160, the same South Africa that was blasting 400 runs in India recently.

I am acknowledging that England under Morgan post World Cup have improved. But they are still behind Bangladesh as an ODI side.

If Bangladesh were to play Australia in an ODI series now at home, they would be favourites. And if they ended up losing 2-3, it wouldn't be considered a 'success for competing', but it would be an outright failure. That's the difference between the two sides now.

If Bangladesh lost 2-3 to Australia they absolutely wouldn't consider it an outright failure.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Irfan gets the breakthrough once again

Quietly becoming one of the best ODI bowlers in the world

 

[91Jmay]

Steady partnership but never looked fluent. Roy needs a score here, doesn't look a massively high scoring pitch (280 would be good score) so top order bat who is set needs to bat on.

 

[Watson33]

Is it sensible to announce the squad to SA when they still have a handful of limited overs matches to play on this tour?

I don't really have a coherent argument here but I'm pretty sure 'dressing room' is involved. Eg what does it do to Topley's mindset today knowing that he's bowling pretty well for England right now but Jordan who isn't has just been picked ahead of him for the next tour?

Isn't the squad to SA just the Test squad atm? Pretty sure Topley knows he is nowhere near the Test match squad.

 

[test cricketer]

Maybe im wrong! but hales seems to struggle to get on top of the bounce whenever he plays the hook or pull

 

[Black_Warrior]

The only positive thing about the Pakistan ODI side is that the newer generation of Rizwan, Azam etc are great fielders

 

[91Jmay]

Super shot from Roy. He plays that 'walk down the wicket and flick' so well.

 

[91Jmay]

Maybe im wrong! but hales seems to struggle to get on top of the bounce whenever he plays the hook or pull

Agree, he falls away a lot. Defect, especially for a big man.

 

[Watson33]

A Pakistani team actually fielding well. My word, maybe things are changing after all.....

 

[Howe_zat]

Starting to kick on now. We've got A Reasonable Start and are moving towards A Pretty Good Platform.

 

[Howe_zat]

I don't want to alarm anyone but Jason Roy could get a hundred.

 

[91Jmay]

Starting to kick on now. We've got A Reasonable Start and are moving towards A Pretty Good Platform.

Wouldn't you say we are at Well Set by now?

 

[Howe_zat]

Yasir Shah to Roy, FOUR, it's a four, but not as we know it. That had designs for a single through midwicket. Instead it was a leading edge through third man
25.4
Yasir Shah to Roy, 2 runs, a more intentional edge this time, down to third man again. Soft hands
25.5
Yasir Shah to Roy, 1 run, edged and dropped! A loose poke to a gentle leg-break, and that looked to have taken a deflection off the tip of the keeper's gloves which in turn baffled Rizwan at slip

 

[91Jmay]

To be fair to Roy, he does show why having aggressive top order players is vital in modern ODI cricket. Lots of English ODI openers of years passed would have been 50* off 65 and carried on at that rate for a while but he went after spinners and got his SR up into nearly the 90s. Can't do that and play chance less knocks, although he is very edgy granted.

 

[Black_Warrior]

This could be a very very heavy defeat. Something along the lines of England scoring 290+ and Pakistan getting skittled out for 140. I am concerned for Azhar Ali's captaincy now.