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*OFFICIAL* England in Pakistan 2024
- Thread starter chris.hinton
- Start date
BazBall21
International Captain
I think at times Root has tried to follow the others to his own detriment but no one is putting a gun to his head and telling him he must bat that way so it was on him rather than McCullum. Stokes is naturally a slow starter hence trying to bat in an all out attack mode in the first 12 months of Bazball didn't really work for him, but I think we've seen his best days with the bat regardless sadly.
Pope isn't affected by Bazball. Nobody who cannot play deliveries that nip back in will be consistent in test cricket. Not least with England being his home conditions. Look at how many times the ball beats his inside edge. Too many times. And he was never any good v spin.
Pope isn't affected by Bazball. Nobody who cannot play deliveries that nip back in will be consistent in test cricket. Not least with England being his home conditions. Look at how many times the ball beats his inside edge. Too many times. And he was never any good v spin.
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Red_Ink_Squid
Global Moderator
'grats Pakistan.
A home Test win while India gets rolled for 46 - some overdue cause for cheer!
A home Test win while India gets rolled for 46 - some overdue cause for cheer!
sayon basak
International Debutant
Your prayers didn't work bro.
Johan
International 12th Man
yeah, everything was downhill from like 210-2
sayon basak
International Debutant
Adil Rashid flying into the squad then?
Jamie Smith threw away his wicket in both innings. He is a good player of spin and should have stayed in instead of playing rash shots
Johan
International 12th Man
I think he just naturally ****ed up.Very young player and he was fully allowed to play slow, he just isn't ready for such a high preassure role on a raging turner
Molehill
Cricketer Of The Year
We were 100 behind in the first innings and he was batting with the tail, what's he supposed to do? No blame on him for that.
Burgey
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Oh yeah he played some blinders against fast bowling.
Had the ***iest forearms in cricket too
BazBall21
International Captain
Yeah good player of pace. Mistreated by England imo. Graeme Hick played more tests than him. What a joke that is
Groundking
International Debutant
Pitch was flat AF for the most part for 5 sessions and we had people in here thinking we'd be scoring 500+ in our first digs so the idea that the toss wasn't massively significant here is nonsense imo.
Regardless though I thought we were pretty **** in this test, catching throughout was really poor, Bashir bowled loads of rubbish first innings, the batting in our first innings other than Duckett was quite poor, 4 of top 7 got starts but none of them helped Duckett out properly and they all played pretty stupid shots to get out (other than arguably Root) and whilst I've not actually seen any of the play today the scorecard (and chat in here) suggests that we got 4 starts and they threw it away again.
Hopefully we get a good deck in Rawalpindi so we can have an exciting test to close the series out.
Regardless though I thought we were pretty **** in this test, catching throughout was really poor, Bashir bowled loads of rubbish first innings, the batting in our first innings other than Duckett was quite poor, 4 of top 7 got starts but none of them helped Duckett out properly and they all played pretty stupid shots to get out (other than arguably Root) and whilst I've not actually seen any of the play today the scorecard (and chat in here) suggests that we got 4 starts and they threw it away again.
Hopefully we get a good deck in Rawalpindi so we can have an exciting test to close the series out.
BazBall21
International Captain
Agree with all of that. England lost an important toss and didn't deal with it well enough because they are a flawed side.
BazBall21
International Captain
He top scored in this innings.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Dont think the toss had as much to with this result as England's catching. And, you know, the fact that Pakistan played really really well. I know we make fun of the uncles but those were some serious spells, help or no help from the pitch.
chris.hinton
International Captain
Still think we will beat the Aussies 5-0 