*Official* Pakistan in England 2020

[Uppercut]

Booooo, get Babar back on strike

 

[Daemon]

****kk can’t believe I’m missing out on this. Reaching home in about 30min, wait for me Babz

 

[morgieb]

This is just A++ batting from Azam. It's rare that whenever a batsman comes in you can feel confident he's gonna get a big one. We're at that point with Babar.

 

[OverratedSanity]

So good to watch. More aesthetically pleasing than any of the fab 4 imo.

 

[trundler]

How do you feel about those cover drives Uppercut

 

[morgieb]

Friendly reminder I got him in R3 in CPL.

 

[Spark]

I'm loving this footwork from Babar. Makes me realise just how awful our guys were, hovering on the crease to bowling that's not even that quick.

Just love watching him bat.

That is honestly something I'd noticed too from basically all the WI batsman for ages; they're so reluctant to really get on the front foot. Pitches at fault?

Though I'd add that at no point against us did Broad and Anderson bowl this badly. A lot of loose stuff is on offer. Fatigue perhaps?

The benefits of pushing pressure back on the bowler tbf. Azam sensed a moment and has grabbed it.

 

[wpdavid]

Babar vs Bess really isn't a fair contest, is it. Reminds me of one of those dads vs school team matches.

 

[Uppercut]

How do you feel about those cover drives Uppercut

Haha I think they're great against off-spin tbh. If anything under-used, especially against the spin.

 

[Daemon]

Friendly reminder I got him in R3 in CPL.

what’s that?

 

[Uppercut]

I'd planned to go to this game, so will be a bit raging if a ridiculously elegant century sets up a great match.

 

[Beamer]

That is honestly something I'd noticed too from basically all the WI batsman for ages; they're so reluctant to really get on the front foot. Pitches at fault?

Possibly. This generation have grown up on some awful pitches. I'm pretty much done with most of them tbh, I think they're beyond hope and we need to try something new.

For now I'll just enjoy watching a proper batsman at work.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Cricinfo: "Opening in England and especially batting first in a Test is one of the hardest for visiting openers. Since 2016 20 openers have had a chance to bat and no opener has faced more deliveries in an innings than Shan Masood."

No one else even has more than 100 deliveries faced. Pretty incerdible stat... shows how rubbish visiting openers have been recently

 

[smash84]

somewhat pleasantly surprised to find us not having lost half the team by now......fingers crossed.

 

[honestbharani]

Root is gonna be super defensive in his fields for Bess now, isn't he? That might just play into the hands of Pak at the moment.

 

[Beamer]

somewhat pleasantly surprised to find us not having lost half the team by now......fingers crossed.

Your guys have got this man, don't worry!

 

[Groundking]

Buttler needs to do better there.

 

[morgieb]

That isn't......great keeping.

 

[smash84]

Your guys have got this man, don't worry!

If you weren't a Windies fan I would have asked you, "What do you know of heartbreak and what could have been?"

 

[honestbharani]

Still think as of now Bess is a better bet than the seamers to nick one of these out. If Root can be sensible about it though and not be ultra defensive.