***Official*** England in Pakistan

[superkingdave]

running has been good today, Strauss has been impressive

 

[Xuhaib]

Why did they pick Arshad Khan as a supesub Yasir Arafat would have been much better choice.

 

[PY]

Gah, kiss of death for Strauss from me.....

 

[PY]

Didn't realise The Pieman was playing, why the heck isn't he coming in now?

Only ten overs left, him and Freddie in and we could have fireworks bigtime.

 

[superkingdave]

don't think Collingwood is really who we want coming in now - would have preffered Jones, Solanki or Blackwell. He could prove me wrong though...

 

[PY]

Freddddddiiieeeeee.........

 

[Barney Rubble]

Just got up, and gotta say I'm liking this quite a lot. Also great that Strauss is back in the runs.

 

[PY]

It's official, I don't actually care what happened in Parliament yesterday and neither does anyone else who's listening to Radio 4 because no-one listens to Radio 4 unless the cricket is on.

 

[Barney Rubble]

It's official, I don't actually care what happened in Parliament yesterday and neither does anyone else who's listening to Radio 4 because no-one listens to Radio 4 unless the cricket is on.

That programme annoys the hell out of me, too.

 

[social]

Did pretty well before that though didn't he?

I'm liking Strauss in ODI, he's capable of playing a secondary role but still going at SR of over 85.

Freddie looks dodgy against Kaneria but he's still there so 300+ is very much on the cards. We'll need it.

Referrinf to Kp starting to sledge the Pakistanis in the balls leading up to him committing suicide.

For a guy that contributed nothing other than an incredibly lucky century in the test series, he really has an inflated opinion of himself.

 

[Barney Rubble]

he really has an inflated opinion of himself.

Did you not work that out over the course of the summer? He does love himself quite a lot, bless him.

 

[marc71178]

KP made to look an idiot once again in Pakistan.

But in these circumstances it is slightly different.

A batting line up that goes down to Blackwell at 9 gives him the licence to go for it when he's on a roll.

 

[ClownSymonds]

Looks like England have overcome their batting problems here. I don't think any target is safe, though - Pakistan have great batting, and they recently chased 300+ against India.

 

[marc71178]

Didn't realise The Pieman was playing, why the heck isn't he coming in now?

Flintoff was in and beginning to see it well.

Collingwood was the perfect foil to come in and give him the strike.

If either get out now in the last 2 or 3 overs, Blackwell is far better placed to go after the bowling from ball 1.

 

[PY]

Freddie handing out some serious tap to Rana, 18 off the first 4 balls of the over.

 

[superkingdave]

Rana getting some tap. 18 off first 4

 

[ClownSymonds]

Rana bowls a perfect yorker - and it's 4.

 

[PY]

3 scores of over 300 in ODI in one day and likely to be a 4th as well as Pakistan are very strong.

Wonder if that's ever happened before?

 

[ClownSymonds]

3 scores of over 300 in ODI in one day and likely to be a 4th as well as Pakistan are very strong.

Wonder if that's ever happened before?

Probably not, and we might even see the world record for highest run chase fall twice in a day.

 

[PY]

Need a six off the last ball!