*Official* Pakistan in England 2020

[hazsa19]

@hazsa19 Someone said 7:30 on commentary.

Stand corrected

 

[vcs]

Poor review.

 

[trundler]

That's a goner

 

[Howe_zat]

I was certainly wrong about Masood but ever since that first knock he's done pretty much what I expected

 

[trundler]

It's all coming together for England. Scoreboard pressure is very real.

Babar double to prove me wrong

 

[vcs]

That was a cracking on drive from Babar.

Old man Jimmy is still so good.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Jofra got his tail up here.

Looks so much more threatening when he bends his back a little.

 

[vcs]

Jimmy!

 

[Howe_zat]

That's the game right there. Vintage Jimmy

 

[vcs]

This man is unbelievable, 38 years young

 

[BoyBrumby]

Really surprised impact was umpire's call. Looked completely stone dead in real time.

He's still pretty decent for a geriatric, Anderson.

 

[grecian]

Nah was all Sky would talk about as well. Drove me bananas.

I'm sure they're just as bad now which is why I've muted it

Less Beefy has certainly helped in that regard, in fact I wonder if even Warne was asked to tone it down, certainly ruined many an end of a Test match as they were worried about some tee-time they'd booked.

Jimmy still got it eh?

 

[Howe_zat]

It's just been pointed out to me that both Buttler and Crawley hit their second Test century today. Technically.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Probably mentioned earlier but I see Crawley now has the highest ever test score to be dismissed with a stumping.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Anderson should go for Murali's record. No reason he can't keep rolling over these lineups at home.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I see Anderson is now older than Hadlee when he retired but still younger than Imran in the 92 WC but will surpass that soon.

Who was the last seamer bowling in their 40s?

 

[BoyBrumby]

I see Anderson is now older than Hadlee when he retired but still younger than Imran in the 92 WC but will surpass that soon.

Who was the last seamer bowling in their 40s?

Looks like Graham Gooch, technically speaking.

Although Les Jackson back in 1961 looks like the last specialist seam up bowler selected in his 5th decade.

 

[Howe_zat]

I see Anderson is now older than Hadlee when he retired but still younger than Imran in the 92 WC but will surpass that soon.

Who was the last seamer bowling in their 40s?

Sydney Barnes, if he counts as a seamer, went to South Africa in 1913-14 and took piles of wickets while aged 46

 

[theegyptian]

Must be pretty rare to see 2 first class highest scores in a test innings.
For all the talk of it only being Crawley's 4 fc hundred, still only Buttler's 7th. (both of these things likely being commented on early in the thread so sorry about that).

Crawley does kind of remind me of an Australian type bat. Hits the ball naturally hard in a conventional style. A bit of say Matty Hayden. Can just lean on a drive and it goes really hard off the bat.
Wasn't always that way for Crawley. I remember his first season in first class cricket. Looked technically decent but looked a bit more of a touch player. Returned the next year and you could see a big improvement in the way he hit the ball, presumably as he grew into his body.

 

[Howe_zat]

Yeah the 'averages 30 in FC' was always a bit misleading, the guy had a rubbish first season aged 20 and a pretty decent second season, which was the one in the first division and included two tons against good teams. Then all his non-Test appearances around the England set up where he did well didn't count against his average.

There will be a lot of crowing that 'just goes to show how you don't always pick on stats' or similar as a result of Crawley (Jonathan Liew's Guardian effort from this morning is the kind of extreme crotchetyness I'm expecting, for those who want an example). But really it's just a lesson to be one level more nuanced than the career average, which of course all selectors worth a toss are.