***Official*** England in Pakistan

[andyc]

What's Afridi bowling? His spin or medium pacers?

 

[Zinzan]

On this wicket you'd have to assume spin

 

[pakster]

He only bowls spin..fast leg spin, like kumble - only better

 

[ClownSymonds]

What's Afridi bowling? His spin or medium pacers?

Afridi never bowls medium pacers. He has a medium pace quick ball, but he's purely an unorthodox leg-spin bowler.

 

[andyc]

He only bowls spin..fast leg spin, like kumble - only better

Really? Cricinfo says he bowls both and I thought he did too

 

[Adamc]

I've never seen him bowl medium-pace...I did however see him bowl 'spin' at 130km/h when he took that five-wicket haul against Kenya.

 

[Slow Love™]

I am not watching but.. good to see Naved take some early wickets. I remember thinking he was absolute class watching him in the VB series. Not just a ODI player, no.

I thought the same. Very talented cricketer, IMO.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I know the Inzy run-out has been mentioned at length earlier, but I don't see the real answer.
When it was referred to the Third Umpire was he only allowed to judge the line call purely on whether the batsman was in or out of his ground or could he tell the umpires on the field that it wasn't out because of the evasive action rule?
But then again on the field was the line umpire the only one who could say whether or not it was referred to the third umpire or could the umpire at the bowlers end have intervened and said Not Out even though the line umpire had referred it?
These are both matters of law and seem unclear to many people.

Purely from a matter of opinion I'm not convinced that it was clear enough from the TV pictures to be given out anyway.

 

[pakster]

twas a shame about inzi, what makes it even more infuriating is that Afridi and yusuf were given somewhat dodgy decisions too. All 3 were well set, and had they stayed, Pakistans' score could well have gotten up to 550.

Anyhoo, i'll get back to crumbling my cookie.

 

[Isolator]

If you ask me, i think its very much possible that both Rashid Lateef and Bell didn't knew that the catch wasn't legitimate whenever they took it.I supported Rashid Lateef at that time and thought he was unfortunate to have ended up serving a test ban, i just hope same doesn't happen to Bell.

Uh... did you see the video of Latif's "catch"? He dropped it, it rolled on the ground, and he picked it up and claimed the catch.

 

[Slow Love™]

I know the Inzy run-out has been mentioned at length earlier, but I don't see the real answer.
When it was referred to the Third Umpire was he only allowed to judge the line call purely on whether the batsman was in or out of his ground or could he tell the umpires on the field that it wasn't out because of the evasive action rule?
But then again on the field was the line umpire the only one who could say whether or not it was referred to the third umpire or could the umpire at the bowlers end have intervened and said Not Out even though the line umpire had referred it?
These are both matters of law and seem unclear to many people.

I've only seen the photo at cricinfo (which gives a clear enough indication that Inzy was definitely evading the ball) and I would also like to know, but I presume this question has not been answered yet.

I had a few procedural questions related to this with some of the decision-making in the Super Series, but to my knowledge, those questions were never answered. Hopefully there'll be some clarification on this from the ICC. Sambit Bal just wrote an article at cricinfo (in his usual hysterical style of course) in which he asked similar questions.

 

[Unattainableguy]

Which would be all well and good if English fans had made such big predictions pre-series.

I think you haven't read this then,
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/pakveng/content/story/223103.html

And it was from one of England's players, not any fan....

 

[UncleTheOne]

Ian Bell is playing some cracking shots here and not getting decent reward for them.

 

[a10khan]

i am watching the game live, inzamam was evading the ball clearly. poor umpiring there

 

[Unattainableguy]

Not possible on this wicket, i don't expect anything less than 350 from England in first innings.

But then Pak has Almighty Rana Naveed ..so anything can happen

He's already taken two wickets, so I'm hopeful anything can happen.

 

[pakster]

Bell playing well here, good knock thus far. Trescothick dependable as ever, Pakistan need to get a breakthrough soon.

 

[UncleTheOne]

There has just been a huge explosion at the ground, looks like the drinks cart has been wrecked from what I saw, this can't be good.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Huge explosion. Smoke rising, spectators clutching faces, eyes. Several ad-boards smashed into pieces. Play stopping, players huddled in the centre surrounded by security.

 

[wpdavid]

I think you haven't read this then,
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/pakveng/content/story/223103.html

And it was from one of England's players, not any fan....

Once again, it was an aim, not a prediction. In other words, they want to win every game they play. Where's the problem mate?

 

[Neil Pickup]

I think you haven't read this then,
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/pakveng/content/story/223103.html

And it was from one of England's players, not any fan....

I think you haven't read it either. Christ, of course they're aiming to win it 3-0. They aren't gonna aim to lose, they ain't called Hansie.

Gas tank explosion it seems.