**Official** Pakistan and England in the UAE 2015/16

[flibbertyjibber]

Well played Pakistan. Deserved series win.

 

[NUFAN]

Awesome stuff Pakistan, deserved this series victory, looking forward to the return series.

 

[indiaholic]

Where does this place Pakistan in the rankings?

Excellent series but today was poor from England.

 

[Black_Warrior]

5 years ago when Misbah ul Haq took charge of this team, it was the lowest moment ever in the history of this team. Today he might have played his last test match, and he leaves behind this team at number 2 in world rankings.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Nasser Hussain on Skysports

Missed him the entire series. What an amazing amazing analyst and observer of the game.

Botham talks about this series in the most disparaging way possible, 'oh these conditions are so awful, who cares if we lose, don't know why we have to play here"

And Nasser talks about the series and finds all the beautiful things about this fantastic test match series just concluded.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Nice we have had a calm series between the two sides for once.

Though we may get some griping coming out from the England camp now it is over. Think the biggest controversy was Wahab kicking the ball which was something of nothing.

 

[MW1304]

Well it's partly because the senior players, namely Misbah and Younis, are just great people.

Was probably more disappointed at the Aus v NZ score waking up this morning tbh, hadn't expected us to get close today like some did.

 

[Strike!]

I'd like to bring this post from 2012 to attention:

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cri...ial-pakistan-england-uae-183.html#post2784283

That is all.

 

[Black_Warrior]

England would have won 2-1 with merely below par batting, before certain individuals go over the top with their praise of Pakistan or writing England off. It's so irritating in particular to throw it away against a team with Pakistan's recent history.

At least given the scoreline there should be no more fannying about. I hope the England team remember this for a long time to come and absolutely annihilate Pakistan when they next play in 2015 and 2016. **** gripping contests, I want innings and 500 runs victories.

 

[91Jmay]

Well done Pakistan, fully deserved win. England batting shocking for large parts of series, we are so many players light at the moment. Still had chances to draw series and didn't take them.

 

[Black_Warrior]

I think these have to be some of the happiest moments in a cricketer's life.

 

[smash84]

Well played Pakistan. Well played England too. Unlucky not to have had at least one win under their belt

 

[Cabinet96]

I wanted Cook to carry his bat

 

[smash84]

Ok your piece of **** team is now number 2 in test cricket. Can you please go a little easy on the gambhiring?

That wasn't gambhiring ffs.

 

[smash84]

I wanted Cook to carry his bat

He is, back to England

 

[wpdavid]

Just belatedly adding my congratulations to Pakistan on a well- deserved series win. Given that a composite side would probably have seven from Pakistan (plus Cook, Root, Broad and Anderson of course) you can't really argue with 0-2. Misbah is great - I really like him as a player and as a captain - and he'll be sorely missed. Also kudos to the Pakistani CWers on being brilliant company during the series, as you were in 2012 actually.

I hope England don't get too carried away about the return leg next year. If the two A's are back from suspension and hooping it round corners again, it's going to be a really tough contest, especially given the state of England's batting.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Combined XI

Cook
Hafeez
Root
Younis
Misbah
Shafiq
Sarfraz
Broad
Yasir
Wahab
Anderson

 

[Furball]

Congratulations to Pakistan, the better team and worthy winners.

Been a good series though, England weren't a million miles away from winning 2-0 themselves if they'd had a bit more time in Abu Dhabi and the 5th days had gone differently in Dubai and here - all the more amazing considering how poor our spinners were. And for all the talk about flat, crap pitches, each Test has gone to the 5th day and been very nicely poised, with 2 Tests almost going down to the wire. Good advert for Test cricket.

Onwards to South Africa I guess.

 

[Cabinet96]

Yeah it was a good series and I wasn't too disappointed with our overall performance.

 

[Daemon]

Yeah, first game could've easily swung their way if not for light, the second could have been a draw if Rashid hung on a while more. This was the only comprehensive loss imo. Scoreline of 2-0 does a disservice to England's efforts.