England test tour of Pakistan December 2022

[GIMH]

Just come out of meetings, absolutely chuffed for Rehan!

 

[Howe_zat]

Teams chasing 150-180 to win have succeeded on 23/34 attempts (67%). In Asia, it's 8 successful chases out of 11.

I can confirm that none of those 11 chases started with 34/0 off the first 3 overs.

 

[wpdavid]

How much time till stumps? can they do it?

At this rate, absolutely; I think the RRR is down to about 6.5 now They reckon that we won't lose nearly as much time here as at Rawlpindi. And unlike in 2000, Pakistan have nothing to gain by slowing the game down.

EDIT
Apparently there's only an hour to play, so we won't be getting all of the overs after all. That makes it a lot tighter.

 

[GIMH]

Yeah we got a full quota of overs yesterday. Could well get this done tonight.

 

[trundler]

Glad I'm not watching this today.

 

[BazBall21]

That’s a great shot. Footwork, placement and power.

 

[BazBall21]

That’s not bad either. Crawley fancies Jessop’s record here.

 

[Daemon]

Soul crushing batting, this. Poor Pakistan fans.

 

[wpdavid]

That’s not bad either. Crawley fancies Jessop’s record here.

It won't happen if they both stay there - Duckett's scoring at a significantly faster rate.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Glad I'm not watching this today.

Hopefully Thierry Henry is.

 

[Howe_zat]

It's been a remarkably swift evaporation of the nerves for me. Could have well been a difficult chase, instead they've slammed the opposiiton into going through the motions. When it works, it properly works.

 

[BazBall21]

Babar isn’t a great captain is he

 

[BazBall21]

It won't happen if they both stay there - Duckett's scoring at a significantly faster rate.

Yeah I was thinking that. If we win by 10 wickets they will cancel each other out.

 

[Ashes81]

Not trying to knock the young man but that was some awful batting

There was but that's the nature of leg spin.

However, the 2 men who got out to the sweep - they look bad shots but they both top edged their sweeps because of the extra bounce Rehan gets with his top spin.

 

[Kirkut]

I'm guessing the hangover from the game last night is so intense that Pakistani fans won't mind if they lose this one.

 

[BazBall21]

Lots of fielders in the square

 

[Ashes81]

Babar isn’t a great captain is he

He's not - he's been pretty negative. They made a good point on the TV comms with the 2 wkts off the sweep for Rehan.

Babar would have the catcher much deeper and the batsman would have got away with their miss hits.

 

[wpdavid]

I'm guessing the hangover from the game last night is so intense that Pakistani fans won't mind if they lose this one.

Unlikely in an Islamic country.

 

[centurymaker]

wtf is pakistan trying to achieve by slowing things down & bowling 'fast bowlers' on this pitch with multiple sweepers on the boundary when only 100 more runs to go...

Yeah game will go into day 4 but i doubt pakistan will pick up wickets like this.

Babar is useless. Deserves to be sacked from captaincy after this series.

 

[BazBall21]

Meek surrender. Shades of Jason Holder’s captaincy.