*Official* Pakistan in England and Ireland 2016

[hazsa19]

ICC will say that's a correct decision

 

[LegionOfBrad]

****ing hell. I thought knee roll, going over but jeez that was close.

 

[Cabinet96]

That must've been about 45% of the ball hitting the stumps.

 

[social]

Meh I thought Ballance shaped up fairly well in the first three tests and liked the idea of him batting 5 amongst the more aggresive bats - but you look at this test and the same problems persist. Just gets bombed by short balls and doesn't do anything about it before knicking off to the fuller delivery and pats back long hops from the spinners - and gona get caught around the bat a lot of the time. Needs offensive shots to counter- where are the pull/hooks and sweeps? He's going to get eaten up alive this winter in India and in Australia next winter the way he's still batting. All 3 of Ballance, Vince and Hales look doomed failures. Can't really get rid of all 3 at once though. Probably good news for Hales. Probably means England will bring in one more senior established bat at county level (think Hildreth, Malan, Madsen, Bell lol?, Robson, Boreshite etc) and one younger ( think Duckett, Westley, Bell-Drummond, Northeast, Browne etc).

I was thinking about that today after a post of your's yesterday - Hales will probably survive by default

Geriatric Bell and retired KP must be better than all 3 but hey ho

 

[Cabinet96]

Wonder if umpires are more inclined to give marginal ones if the batting side has reviews left compared to if they don't.

 

[Zinzan]

Wonder if umpires are more inclined to give marginal ones if the batting side has reviews left compared to if they don't.

Huh? That makes zero sense.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

I was thinking about that today after a post of your's yesterday - Hales will probably survive by default

Geriatric Bell and retired KP must be better than all 3 but hey ho

We'll be dropping a batsmen in the winter for the extra spinner.

Vince is gone and forgotten.
Ballance as said hasn't shown any inclination to alter his technique despite everyone knowing how he gets out. Will they ditch him though? Remains to be seen.
Hales least likely to be ditched as he'll feast in the sub continent imo.

Could see them lining up with

Hales
Cook
Root
Bairstow
Moeen
Stokes
Buttler (We all know he's getting back in the team at some point)
Woakes
Rashid
Broad
Jimmy

The reserve batsman on the tour will definitely be an opener/number 3

 

[OverratedSanity]

These two need to do a Baz-Watling

 

[Furball]

These two need to do a Baz-Watling

I believe it's called a Dravid-Laxman actually.

 

[Howe_zat]

Moeen Ali is the first player to get 300+ runs and 10+ wickets in a series against Pakistan.

 

[Cabinet96]

Just when you start to believe etc.

 

[GIMH]

God damn

 

[fredfertang]

that's problematic

 

[Furball]

I'm guessing Mrs Shah must have refilled her prescription.

 

[91Jmay]

Need another 180 runs minimum you'd think. Game will be over by tonight.

 

[Dan Jamson]

Need another 180 runs minimum you'd think. Game will be over by tonight.

Good. They'll be able to throw James Vince and Gary Ballance a leaving party without having to worry about coming into work tomorrow.

 

[Black_Warrior]

WTF weren't Sky meant to show the Curtly Ambrose masterclass today?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

On a normal day 100-2 in a session we would be delighted with but seeing as we were so far behind already that wasn't enough. Least we look like avoiding the innings defeat.

 

[91Jmay]

James Vince is historically bad isn't he. Alex Hales could go that way as well if he isn't careful.

 

[Stace]

JB only 10 runs away for 1,000 runs this year, WAFG. Cant be many who got them this early in the year if he does get them in this innings.