***Official*** England in Pakistan

[Kweek]

How was he out? Cricinfo is being painful

38.1 Shoaib Akhtar to Flintoff, OUT: short ball, from round the wicket,
tries to pull it, off the gloves to gully, Hasan Raza takes a
simple catch

 

[pakster]

How was he out? Cricinfo is being painful

BBC is better...caught by sub apparently, not sure of the specifics

 

[Slow Love™]

How was he out? Cricinfo is being painful

Whenever cricinfo becomes inaccessible, you should try out cricbuzz.

http://www.cricbuzz.com/Pak_Eng.html

 

[andyc]

Ah thanks guys. Just came up for me then

 

[Pratters]

Freddie nicked a slower Shoaib bouncer. Raza the sub who was fielding the first ball after Inzamam walked out of the field took the catch.

Giles is still batting.

 

[andyc]

Predictions, then?
Light seems to have been a problem for all of the days so I'm betting heavily on a draw. If the light is okay then perhaps Pakistan have a chance. That said, England should come out of this match feeling a bit lucky.

 

[pakster]

Ashley Giles is normally one for a pressure situation and keeps out Afridi's 80mph quicker ball before helping the ball on its way down to fine leg for four.

Blimey..

 

[Neil Pickup]

38.2 Shoaib Akhtar to Giles, no run, short ball, down the leg side,
tries to play at it, looks like inner edge to keeper, shout for
caught behind, declinese, replay confirms that Gils nick that one

He was nowhere near it. Might have flicked his trousers, but nowhere near the bat.

Some more woefully inadequate journalism from the commentary there...

 

[I-I011YVV00I>]

The Poms can only hope for a series draw now. Their world-conquering train has been swiftly derailed.

 

[pakster]

Predictions, then?
Light seems to have been a problem for all of the days so I'm betting heavily on a draw. If the light is okay then perhaps Pakistan have a chance. That said, England should come out of this match feeling a bit lucky.

A draw for sure. Giles and jones are both more than capable with the bat...hoggard can hang around for a while too. Pak victory depends on whether akhtar can pull a miracle out of the hat.

 

[I-I011YVV00I>]

Afridi's 80mph quicker ball Blimey..

That guy's an absolute beast.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

Blimey, that was a narrow squeak. Should've been rather more comfortable but thanks to some brainless batting by the top-order we get another nail-biter.

 

[wahindiawah]

Light offered to batters and they walk off hapily!

Congrats to England for saving the test match!

 

[Pedro Delgado]

And my ring can now stop going like that: () o () o ()

 

[a massive zebra]

Any guesses on how many times Michael Vaughan will use the word pressure in his interview?

 

[Neil Pickup]

Day Five Report

 

[parttimer]

Englands run of successive series victories is over, hooray! If they found Pak tough, wait till India, haha!

 

[Scaly piscine]

Englands run of successive series victories is over, hooray! If they found Pak tough, wait till India, haha!

England can only get better (and win some more crucial tosses).

 

[Slow Love™]

Day Five Report

The tourists may also wish to jettison one of their ineffective spin options, with Shaun Udal the most likely to make way for either James Anderson or Liam Plunkett.

Thanks for the report - who do you think has been the better bowler in the series so far out of Giles and Udal (with the understanding that neither set the world on fire)?

 

[PY]

My finger was up before Taufel's. No complaints here.

We're just not getting forward... hardly at all... it's inexplicable. Reminds me of the Lincolnshire U15 Schools Cup in 2000. We were away to Branston in the Quarter Final, low, slow track, PE teacher tells us to make sure we get forward. Result - we all get out playing inexplicably back, including some idiot at number three *cough*PY*cough* who stood on his own stumps.

It was short, wide and gasping to be cut but wanted to put it to third man rather than through point so took too much of a step back.

I had a good game behind the stumps in my defence.