***Official*** Pakistan and England in UAE

[Black_Warrior]

Younis please score a century and do not give your wicket to the most overrated spinner in the world after Harbhajan and Kaneria.

 

[screamingfields]

Run more. Easier for Ajmal!

Run rate, should be at least 2 by now guys! In the last 10 overs that is.

50 partnership. Wow, not usual this series. Keep it up. Just up the run rate. 2 an over too slow, finish the innings off earlier, for the better.

Run it guys. No big shots needed.

Lack of footwork. Pitch is talking a bit though.

Runs stop now. No point in batting then... Runs should be free flowing.

Make or break. Doing well, in our favor, I think.

Just get runs now. No defending required now. Big scores required also.

 

[Black_Warrior]

So Fox Sports would rather show NSW vs Tasmania and before that World Series cricket from the 90s rather than England vs Pakistan and then these people have the nerve to bitch about illegal streaming.

 

[Kylez]

So Fox Sports would rather show NSW vs Tasmania and before that World Series cricket from the 90s rather than England vs Pakistan and then these people have the nerve to bitch about illegal streaming.

The test match should be available through viewers choice though?

 

[Flem274*]

Legal streams are the future. If a provider offered me world cricket for a reasonable price and without annoying pop ups, Sky NZ would never receive my money, ever.

Which is exactly what Giles Clarke is afraid of. The ECB have television contracts worth lots of money and they don't want anyone else getting a cut and creating competition. Because of their attitude, they're fighting a losing battle against piracy and it will probably hurt them even more in the long run.

 

[fredfertang]

As the posts in this thread slow to a trickle do I detect a touch of apathy setting in?

 

[Spark]

So this is a bit more like how I was expecting yesterday to pan out.

 

[GIMH]

Legal streams are the future. If a provider offered me world cricket for a reasonable price and without annoying pop ups, Sky NZ would never receive my money, ever.

Which is exactly what Giles Clarke is afraid of. The ECB have television contracts worth lots of money and they don't want anyone else getting a cut and creating competition. Because of their attitude, they're fighting a losing battle against piracy and it will probably hurt them even more in the long run.

You can pay to only have sky sports on a streaming basis. I agree legal streams are the way forwards but I don't think it's what Giles Clarke is afraid of.

 

[screamingfields]

50 for Younus! Well played!

 

[wpdavid]

As the posts in this thread slow to a trickle do I detect a touch of apathy setting in?

From an English pov it's completely unwatchable. The sight of Younis deigning to turn up now that the series is won holds no great appeal. Nor the sight of any Pakistani batsmen simply doing what batsmen on both sides should have been doing all series on these tracks. At least when Pak's batters were collapsing we could kid ourselves that we had a chance. Now, we don't even have that.

And that's before we get to the horrors of the oneday series.

 

[Daemon]

Matchwinning partnership right here.

 

[Shri]

Need about 130 more from here to have a decent chance of winning.

 

[screamingfields]

Matchwinning partnership right here.

Not done yet. Tea is about to come. Big scores in both of them still. 100 odd for both.

 

[wpdavid]

Not done yet.

I gather you've missed the rest of the series?

 

[Black_Warrior]

Panesar to Azhar Ali, 1 run, Younis defends off the front foot as Panesar flights it.

 

[Spikey]

pakistan should probably start thinking about declaring #Jinx

 

[Uppercut]

I am thrilled with the series win but lets be honest the series has been won on the back of some cueless batting by England and some high quality spin bowling by Ajmal and Rehman the batting has been first time tested by a quality in over a year and they have come short. A 3-0 series will flatter Pakistan givin the quality of batting they have displayed.

you're on course to whitewash the world's number one team! No pleasing some people hey.

 

[Black_Warrior]

you're on course to whitewash the world's number one team! No pleasing some people hey.

That post was made under a diff context...not when Pakistan were 78/2.

 

[Daemon]

205 overs left in the game. Pakistan can bat as slowly as they want tbh.

 

[Uppercut]

205 overs left in the game. Pakistan can bat as slowly as they want tbh.

More than that, surely. 305?