2020 Pakistan tour of England (3 Tests, 3 T20Is)

[royboy2]

And Broad now coming in to replace Buttler

 

[royboy2]

10 to go

 

[royboy2]

6 to win now

 

[royboy2]

5

 

[royboy2]

4 to go. Woakes playing a starring role here

 

[royboy2]

Another twist, Broad LBW

 

[royboy2]

You beauty! Great win.
Woakes deserved a ton

 

[VirgilHilts]

Brilliant from England but a bloody marvellous Test match all round.

 

[JezzasOnTheAsphalt]

Pretty tame from Pakistan I thought. Like they were relying on the miracle balls with tennis ball bounce that got Stokes and Pope.

Woakes and Buttler really bullied them out of it, warning signs were there when they got to the 50 partnership at better than a run a ball.

 

[Gethelred]

Called it.

 

[Seedsfan]

You are right . Around the wicket short at Woakes almost had him 1st ball . Thats the Stokes bowling method . Thats what the Aussie quicks do .

It’s just common sense

 

[PhatBoy]

That’s the price you pay to keep playing a pea heart like Archer, you just can’t carry him in a four man attack and for some reason they insist on playing him

F*** up mate.

pea heart travel sick Anderson did sweet f*** all in this match.

What’s his excuse?

 

[Seedsfan]

Pretty tame from Pakistan I thought. Like they were relying on the miracle balls with tennis ball bounce that got Stokes and Pope.

Woakes and Buttler really bullied them out of it, warning signs were there when they got to the 50 partnership at better than a run a ball.

Just too nice, every man and their dog knows you bounce Woakes and Broad. Yet the bowl Abbas 125kmph just putting it on a length outside off. When there is no swing he is no threatening to anyone with half an idea how to bat

 

[Tugga27]

F*** up mate.

pea heart travel sick Anderson did sweet f*** all in this match.

What’s his excuse?

He's old?

 

[thejockey]

Good test to watch , always felt England would win . They always seem to be able to win games like those against ok touring sides.

Thought the younger Paki quicks tired a bit and they lacked imagination against Woakes and Broad.

Sets up a nice series

 

[010203]

This was a a terrific test match and it will also go down as an excellent win for for England. With the score at 117-5, I expected Pakistan to win but Chris Woakes deserves a ton of credit for his performance with the bat. Pakistan let a wonderful opportunity to win pass them by. If they put themselves in a winning position again in this series, hopefully they take that opportunity for victory.

 

[010203]

Ben Stokes will play no further part in this test series due to unspecified family reasons. He is due to arrive in New Zealand later this week.

Ben Stokes ruled out of rest of Pakistan series due to family reasons

England all-rounder will fly to New Zealand this week and has been ruled out of the remaining two Test matches against Pakistan

www.theguardian.com

 

[The Passenger]

I think maybe the English thought given enough time he'd bring his short form game to test cricket in the way Andrew Symonds did for a bit, but it just hasn't happened and the chances of it happening now are pretty slim (potential egg on face here, but I just don't see it happening).

Only took a couple of days! ha!

But if were being honest, whilst Buttler certainly landed a blow on his critics, I think it's fair to say he still has a fair way to go to prove himself as a test level batsmen. But credit where it's due - a great innings to steer his team home and the whole test was a great advertisement for test cricket. It's a shame it was about 35 degrees here yesterday and I was suffering the after effects of about a dozen Friday night pints to fully appreciate it.

 

[Gethelred]

F*** up mate.

pea heart travel sick Anderson did sweet f*** all in this match.

What’s his excuse?

You know he's just doing it to wind you up now.

 

[PhatBoy]

You know he's just doing it to wind you up now.

Yeah I know. But he genuinely believes it too so I’ll keep doing it back

 

[Gethelred]

Just too nice, every man and their dog knows you bounce Woakes and Broad. Yet the bowl Abbas 125kmph just putting it on a length outside off. When there is no swing he is no threatening to anyone with half an idea how to bat

This is a very Australian post.

Over here, you can do that and get fairly reliably milked for runs all day, because our pitches have next to no sideways movement off the surface, and in the air the kookaburra doesn't move outside the first 5 overs or in very specific conditions. Over there, in England, the pitches are conducive to tiny variation in seam position causing otherwise identical balls to cut or bounce between identical deliveries.

We can deal with people like Abbas and (until his final tour here) Philander because the pitches don't give them anything at their pace. It's like calling Johnson a wayward scrub because his record in England is shithouse.

 

[Seedsfan]

This is a very Australian post.

Over here, you can do that and get fairly reliably milked for runs all day, because our pitches have next to no sideways movement off the surface, and in the air the kookaburra doesn't move outside the first 5 overs or in very specific conditions. Over there, in England, the pitches are conducive to tiny variation in seam position causing otherwise identical balls to cut or bounce between identical deliveries.

We can deal with people like Abbas and (until his final tour here) Philander because the pitches don't give them anything at their pace. It's like calling Johnson a wayward scrub because his record in England is shithouse.

The ball was not swinging it all. Yeah if it went reverse you would understand the tactic but the ball didn’t do anything

 

[Gethelred]

The ball was not swinging it all. Yeah if it went reverse you would understand the tactic but the ball didn’t do anything

There's not been crazy swing against or for the WIndies or in this test, but what there has been an abundance of is seam movement. I'll be honest, I didn't get to see as much of this test as I'd like, but your post read like an Australian criticism of what isn't a problem anywhere else but here.

 

[Seedsfan]

There's not been crazy swing against or for the WIndies or in this test, but what there has been an abundance of is seam movement. I'll be honest, I didn't get to see as much of this test as I'd like, but your post read like an Australian criticism of what isn't a problem anywhere else but here.

Look he was great with the new ball but got no movement with the old ball. They had two blokes who could crank it up and they didn’t use them

 

[Attila the Pun]

The team with the most tattoos will win the series. It's the new unwritten rule.