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*Official* Pakistan in England 2020
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He's not a player who inspires feelings of any kind TBH, he's usually just content to exist beautifully.
He just annoys me a bit for managing to go 70+ Tests with hardly a noticeable impact.
He's clearly not ****, he has a decent technique, looks compact, plays some good shots. Never amounts to anything though.
Niall
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Has a reputation of only turning up in lost causes.
He is 35 and not trusted to bat any higher than 5, he did once bat three and initially did well especially in England but got worse and worse and had to go back to 5.
At that age and with such a so-so career, their is a compelling argument for firing him out of a cannon at the end of this series.
Give the spot to some young gun who has tore it up in first class cricket over last few years and hope that over the long term he proves a better investment than Shafiq.
Yeah have seen that being the general consensus on him was just wondering when it started. Was it after Misbah and Younis retired? He seemed fine when they were around.He's not a player who inspires feelings of any kind TBH, he's usually just content to exist beautifully.
He just annoys me a bit for managing to go 70+ Tests with hardly a noticeable impact.
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He was expected to step up as the senior batsman in a frail lineup. Imagine having a discount Hooper who can't bowl as your best batsman.
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They've got some good youngsters coming through so they should be fine going fawad
Niall
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Imagine a discount version if Ian Bell, that's always been Shafiq.
Lets not forget Shafiq has spent a lot of his career playing on roads which makes his unremarkable numbers all the more grim.
honestbharani
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Not what I expected and very sad to see Fawad go early but like the look of Abid Ali once again.
Just gonna state it again, we are never far away from an England lollapse.
Just gonna state it again, we are never far away from an England lollapse.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Yeah, fair call. Wouldn't put the mortgage on this England batting line up.
Don't want to bag a young chap with promise (especially before he's even batted), but Crawley replacing Stokes is a big downgrade in terms of proven test runs.
200 and Pakistan are in the game, particularly if the cloud cover remains.
honestbharani
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Yeah, not saying Pak will win or anything at this stage, juz that game can come back to balance once again if England get bundled out too. Gotta wait till both sides have batted before we pass too much judgement on one team's efforts.
nightprowler10
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Such good bowling from England all day long. I'm honestly shocked they're not batting already.
honestbharani
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Anderson keeps coming back when written off, even though it is very much in "made for Anderson" conditions. Still mighty impressive given his age and form going into this game.
wpdavid
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I wasn't able to watch any of it, but I had heard that they bowled well. I suppose we're in similar territory to the previous test insofar as Pakistan are above par due to England's dropped catches. The weather forecast suggests that we'll actually get a full day's play but it will be overcast, so batting should be challenging.