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*Official* Pakistan tour of Ireland, England and Scotland 2018
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Firebreaker
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LOL @people underestimating Shadab's batting. He looks dodgy but he's a proper batsmen and used to bat one down at U19 WC where his bowling was kinda useless and crap. He intends to become Steve Smith like batsmen
Mr Miyagi
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He was a frequent thorn for the NZ team when they toured here in Jan. Admittedly it was only odi - not tests, but with the top order falling over like a house of cards regularly, he managed two 50's and a 28. I thought he had something then. When I realised he was the leg spinner making life tricky for the batsmen, I thought he's quite some cricketer on potential.
Be interesting to see how Pakistan use him when Yasir Shah is back.
But I am more curious having seen Miandad and friends pass over to Ul-Haq and friends who passed over to YK and friends - where is the quality Pakistanian batting? Does eating beef make you bat bad now?
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Prince EWS
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I went to bed at tea and just knew they'd still only be six down when I got back up. For ****'s sake.
Starfighter
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Indeed, it was a disappointing score to wake up to.
If only I'd stayed up all night the wickets would have kept on falling #butterflyeffect
If only I'd stayed up all night the wickets would have kept on falling #butterflyeffect
TheJediBrah
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How did you watch it? I couldn't find anything anywhere
Prince EWS
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Sonyliv.com are covering it online, legally (in India). It's a convoluted process to get around their geoblocking though; not even a VPN is enough.
TheJediBrah
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Eh think that's just a write off for me. Involves way too much work. Fox Cricket channel can't come soon enough.
Prince EWS
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Yeah you basically have to load the page with the VPN pointed to India until you get the error, then do this ****:
https://www.howtogeek.com/337775/how-to-manually-set-your-location-in-google-chrome/
... then refresh, press play, wait a few seconds and then turn the VPN off. Then you're good until the next day when you have to do it all over again (Chrome won't remember your spoofed location settings).
The entire process is amusingly legal in Australia (else I wouldn't be able to post), but not exactly straightforward.
Prince EWS
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But yeah you're right about Fox Cricket. Fox actually have the rights to this -- they're showing highlights every afternoon. They just don't have enough sports channels to fit the live coverage in on weekend nights.
Starfighter
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I wasn't even watching. I was doing the 'check the scores and find a wicket's fallen' thing. I was watching old newsreels (of course).
Daemon
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It's on some of the usual streems.
Flem274*
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England and Ireland being a double bill at home and on tour would be a cool event. So say next time England tour NZ, Ireland play 2 tests, then England 3. Then when NZ tour up north they go to Ireland first then England. The ODIs could be a tri-series.
More tests, more experience for Ireland, maybe even more money for all involved.
India and Afghanistan are pretty buddy buddy too iirc (or is it India and Nepal?) so they could do the same thing.
Honestly I'd rather host Ireland and Afghanistan as a double billing with a big name team rather than seeing the same two teams (Bangers and SL) tour here every summer. There have been some good games but at some point you need to vary your diet.
More tests, more experience for Ireland, maybe even more money for all involved.
India and Afghanistan are pretty buddy buddy too iirc (or is it India and Nepal?) so they could do the same thing.
Honestly I'd rather host Ireland and Afghanistan as a double billing with a big name team rather than seeing the same two teams (Bangers and SL) tour here every summer. There have been some good games but at some point you need to vary your diet.
Mr Miyagi
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I think there are quite a few fans who are keen to see Afghanistan tour. I know as a Kiwi, I've wanted them here since 2016 before Shezhad started dancing. Ireland I am all for NZC to meet its obligations to the global game. And I quite enjoyed our Bangladesh Ireland NZ (minus IPL) odi tri-series last year.
I think Pakistan has toured NZ every year for the past 4 years. I wonder if this is close to a record to uninterrupted annual international tours.
But I still prefer us having multi SL and Ban tours to the 80's and 90's of just one tourist. I would happily watch Boult battle Sanga again and again and again. And Shakib and Mustafizur are always worth a watch.
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S.Kennedy
International Vice-Captain
Sky (UK) are showing it, that is when they do not dump it on the red button to ram IPL down everybody's throats. When all else fails Cricket Pakistan are showing 30mins highlights of each day's play on Youtube.
E.g. (Day 2),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR4fmtPpASI
E.g. (Day 2),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR4fmtPpASI
fredfertang
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Other than the finances of the host broadcaster, is there a reason why there is no DRS?