***Official*** England in Pakistan

[irfan]

I cannot believe they super-subbed Solanki for Anderson, hence making him bat at 10. A bit late I reckon. When they super-subbed Jones off for Solanki against Aus earlier in the year at least there was some sense in that (although Gough would have been the better choice), but with already 8 wickets down?

Plus, imagine if Solanki got a golden or something. Talk about pressure to score

well solanki seems to be a revelation in this role

 

[Barney Rubble]

Damn u plunket...go back to downing street.

Fantastic effort from Plunkers there, but a pretty poor display from England all-round in the face of some awesome stuff from Shoaib. Still, there is a target to bowl at - but we're a bowler light.

 

[Nate]

Bowler or two! By my count you have two frontlines, one all-rounder and a part-timer...

 

[Nate]

My bad, didn`t see Flintoff.

But still!

 

[Barney Rubble]

Bowler or two! By my count you have two frontlines, one all-rounder and a part-timer...

Harmison, Plunkett, Flintoff (front-liners), Blackwell (all-rounder), Collingwood (part-timer). We're one short by my reckoning.

EDIT: Yeah, Freddie's kinda hard to miss........ But the pressure's on Colly, no doubt.

 

[pakster]

Liam Plunkets has an econ rate of 24. Not very good imo.

 

[ClownSymonds]

The man himself, Ian Blackwell, on already. This doesn't look any worse of a pitch than last match.

 

[pakster]

Lets just hope and pray that Ian 'murali' Blackwell doesnt run through this Pakistan batting lineup.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Lets just hope and pray that Ian 'murali' Blackwell doesnt run through this Pakistan batting lineup.

Yes - because that would make you look a bit of an idiot, wouldn't it?

 

[pakster]

Yes - because that would make you look a bit of an idiot, wouldn't it?

In short. Yes.

 

[ClownSymonds]

How did Younis Khan manage to get bowled like that? Disgusting.

 

[pakster]

England need to get Flintoff/Harmison into the attack...they need a wicket

 

[ClownSymonds]

Great century for Akmal. Gilchrist Mark II.

 

[ClownSymonds]

Lloyd keeps going on about how England took 6/23 in the last match, but what he seems to forget is that those wickets were all thrown away by Pakistan when they were trying to score at 10 an over.

 

[Beleg]

Yeah, he played some brilliantly timed strokes in the covers. He now has two ODI centuries and not a single fifty.

 

[Beleg]

Plunkett getting the full treatment. I don't think there'll be too many pats exchanged in the english dressing room tonight.

 

[ClownSymonds]

Congrats to Inzamam on reaching 11,000 ODI runs.

 

[ClownSymonds]

Pakistan probably could have scored 300 or more if needed. Their batting really is strong, even without Afridi.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Very poor performance from England. Once again the top order batsmen are responsible for another defeat. Well done Pakistan, very professionally executed victory with some outstanding individual efforts - Shoaib and Akmal were excellent.

 

[marc71178]

I still think that the total could have been comfortably less if Inzamam had not been so hell-bent on bowling his spinners. They did talk about being behind on the over-rated though so perhaps that might have been an issue in his mind.

Isn't that only really relevant when a side isn't bowled out though?