*Official Match #13 - England v Afghanistan 15th October.

[kevinw]

Say the same thing about Pope, if you're so vulnerable to injury, don't dive about like you're on Jungle run.

I'd be pretty annoyed it I watched a bowler just ****** the ball to the fence but with these guys you've got to accept it.

 

[Owzat]

Well deserved from Rashid

hallelujah, a wicket, although not the one England badly needed as Zadran was more helping England than hurting (28 off 48 balls)

maybe England can now target the other end and hope to leave Gurbaz stranded

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Needed that wicket. 2 or 3 more needed now though.

 

[Owzat]

I have the funny feeling this will go same way as deshi game, England bowlers will do diddly for a long period then all end up with a wicket and not terrible figures - well most, although Curran if he bowls say 3-0-9-2 will have figures of 5-0-35-2 which won't be nearly so bad

wickets slow down scoring, far harder to control the RR (or your ER if looking at it from the bowling side) without taking wickets as we saw when England were thumped and a few other chases that were executed without much trouble

 

[Darwin Award]

Fastest ODI century by a player from Afghanistan is currently 72 balls.

Gurbaz well on track at the moment to get there.

 

[Owzat]

Needed that wicket. 2 or 3 more needed now though.

whilst I don't go a bundle on having 6+ bowling options in a side unnecessarily what alternatives do England have here? Root or Livingstone, and I suspect Buttler will be filling his shorts at the prospect of what the Afghans will do with either of those until they rein in the run rate

 

[BazBall21]

Good stumping. Buttler struggled at that in tests.

 

[Athlai]

Gone

 

[GIMH]

Beautiful bowling

 

[OverratedSanity]

Beautiful bowling from Rashid.

 

[Aidan11]

Get Gurbaz and we should coast this.

 

[Viscount Tom]

Rashid would be a better opening bowler than Woakes.

 

[GIMH]

Good stumping. Buttler struggled at that in tests.

@trundler has never mentioned this

 

[mackembhoy]

There were people on here questioning Rashid place in the side

 

[_Ed_]

That's gone too.

 

[GIMH]

Well that’s a relief on Topley

 

[number11]

Rash doing the biz.

 

[OverratedSanity]

That is absolute suicide wtf

 

[Viscount Tom]

Afghanistan were clearly inspired by Pakistan's collapse yesterday.

 

[Aidan11]

Oh what a howler from Afghanistan.