*Official* Pakistan in England and Ireland 2016

[Howe_zat]

If you forgot this is on, England are 37/0 in the 5th over

Edit: Great time for me to tune in

 

[Daemon]

Nice timing Howe.

I suppose this means Roy is going to go big today.

 

[Howe_zat]

So, other than his 171 (and, admittedly, that was a big other) it's been four low scores for Hales this series

HammadShakil: "Apart from his record 171, Hales has scored just 192 in 8 Test and 4 ODI innings vs Pak this summer."

Sigh.

 

[Daemon]

Guls bowling straight up and down rubbish. Not sure why he was recalled for this series.

 

[Compton]

Frustrating though it is that Hales and Roy never seem to go big together, it's nice that it's rare that they both fail.

Any time one falls fairly early, the other generally makes 50+

 

[Compton]

That's a **** dismissal. Morgan's definitely the weak link in this batting line up.

 

[Zinzan]

Roy is like the 2016 version of Nathan Astle for mine.

 

[fredfertang]

That's a **** dismissal. Morgan's definitely the weak link in this batting line up.

Reminded me of the way i used to bat to be honest - most of my best looking shots ended up with my stumps spreadeagled

 

[superkingdave]

No **** Knight, Stokes isn't playing himself in, he's just looked pretty awful and unable to rotate the strike

 

[ImpatientLime]

what the frig is with amir sending people off?

 

[Stace]

Would rather have Bairstow at 4 with Buttler taking the gloves and Root captain, Morgan doesn't fill me with confidence when we need tough runs.

 

[ImpatientLime]

this is an absolutely disgusting innings by stokes.

 

[Howe_zat]

Bairstow's in good nick this summer isn't he?

This has not yet been pointed out to me so I thought I'd let you know

 

[91Jmay]

Frustrating though it is that Hales and Roy never seem to go big together, it's nice that it's rare that they both fail.

Any time one falls fairly early, the other generally makes 50+

Don't they have the record for a 10 wicket win opening the batting together?

 

[Howe_zat]

Don't they have the record for a 10 wicket win opening the batting together?

yeah but apart from that....

they also have that 100+ stand in 10 overs that let us chase down 350 against New Zealand.

Just been a successful partnership really, only one kicking on most of the time is normal

 

[fredfertang]

****, felt that from here

 

[fredfertang]

Hmmm, I'm beginning to see Warner's point

 

[Howe_zat]

Looks like it's not as easy a pitch to time it on as others in the series. Plenty of turn too.

 

[91Jmay]

Yeah it is a bit sticky, anything around 300 is a good score.

 

[91Jmay]

Just smashed one pie bouncer through mid wicket, so decides to try to fiddle the next one down the 3rd man. Might struggle a bit here