Pakistan v England Tour 2022 - T20I & Tests

(10-12-2022 23:06 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  An England like collapse from Pakistan today, from 142-2 they lost 8-60 in 28 overs.

Day 3 - England fall from 156-5 to lose 5-19.

(11-12-2022 07:16 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  

(10-12-2022 13:11 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  

(09-12-2022 07:55 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote:  Pakistan v England 2nd Test Multan Day 3 Close
England elected to bat
ENG 281 All out (51.4 overs) Duckett 63 Pope 60 Wood 36 no Jacks 31 Stokes 30 Abrar 7-114 Mahmood 3-63
Pakistan 202 (62.5 overs) Babar 75 Shakeel 63 Ashraf 22 Leach 4-98 Root 2-23 Wood 2-40
ENG 275 (64.5 overs) Brook 108 Duckett 79 Stokes 41 Abrar 4-120 Mahmood 3-52
Pakistan 328 (102.1 overs) Shakeel 94 ul-Haq 60 Shafique 45 Nawaz 45 Wood 4-65 Robinson 2-23 Anderson 2-44
Englard won by 26 runs

Mark Wood was the star of the day as he dismissed Nawaz & Shakeel before lunch, after they had added 80 runs for the 6th wicket & were steering Pakistan towards victory.
Still a great effort to make the highest score of the match in the 4th innings.

Another unbelievable effort by England I wasn't expecting they were going to do it after seeing the score before I left for work think I must have checked about 3 or 4 times in the first hour when in the office

I not used to seeing this form of cricket.
Where has all the leaving 90% of the bowling.
Where has all the straight defensive batting gone.
What's happened to all the 5 day drawn games.

It's as though test cricket has suddenly become entertaining.

This brain-dead approach as we saw against India in India, in the summer against them & in Australia a year back does not work against the best teams. What is the point of having test teams who bat like it is a 50 or 20 over slog in a five day match? It is all well & good Stokes charging down the wicket from the first ball when his team is 500-4, but not good when his team is 80-4 on day one or a long way behind in the second innings.

At what point do the ECB say enough it enough-the home tests barely going into day 3 & having to dish out refunds is too much & go back to promoting proper batting technique?

Nice to see the pitch inspectors mark down a pitch (First Test) because of it being so flat that - and they described it as I have for a long time - bowlers had little or no chance (ok England found a way) despite the skill levels on show! In the County game bizarrely, a pitch is marked down if it is even a bit lively in the CC. The ICC have it right, and the england authorities have it ass up!

England will give a debut to leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed in tomorrow's 3d Test. He will become England's youngest debutant at 18 teas & 126 days, beating the record held by Brian Close (18 years & 149 days)
Keeper Foakes returns, with Jacks & the rested Anderson making way.

Pakistan v England 3rd Test Karachi Day 1
Pakistan elected to bat
Pakistan 304 (79 overs) Babar 78 Salman 56 Azhar Ali 45 Masood 30 Leach 4-140 Ahmed 2-89 O
NG 7-1 (3 overs)

Pakisan make 4 changes, Shan Masood, Azhar Ali, Nauman Ali, & Mhammad Wasim Jnr, replacing Mohammad Nawaz, Zahid Mahmood, Mohammad Ali, & Imam u-Haq.