comment by (K̇ash) - Welcome to Mo Trafford - Free Palestine 🇵🇸 (U1108)
posted 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
comment by The Califiori Mop (U8959)
posted 22 minutes ago
comment by T.J (U15973)
posted 22 hours, 4 minutes ago
Babar, Shaheen and Naseem dropped
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I was quite surprised to see this, I know England have swapped out two of their seamers as well but at 1-0 down in the series, is Shaheen not your best bowler still? Admittedly I haven't followed Pakistan's run of horrific form too closely but I was surprised to see this trio axed.
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Deservedly dropped. He is bowling medium pace. When he first came in team he was at 145k plus and swinging ball both ways. He has lost all that is not even good enough to be compared to Ryan Sidebottom.
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Ouch, although in his pomp, Siders was a handful. Makes sense though, seems a shame as on song he was probably one of my favourite bowlers to watch. Likewise Babar Azam with the bat was just someone you could watch all day despite him scoring runs against your team.

Must have been tempting to bring Ahmed in for Pope and have Stokes bat 3 but I'm guessing he will bowl a lot more than we'd like him to.

We've gone for an all spin attack, Jamal the only pace bowler.

Our spinners are so bad though, expect England to just whack them out of the park.

How do fek does Ayub get another game?

The spinners we have picked won't even get in English county sides.

Watch it not turn and England's pace bowlers find low bounce and reverse on this wicket.

Improvement from Pakistan. The openers got more than 10 runs

How is the wicket behaving?

Thought we might get 30 overs in the session but might be trickier with pace back on.

Any chance we can drop the captain for the next match. Awful player

I see nobody told the paying public that the test was on again....

comment by T.J (U15973)
posted 12 minutes ago
Any chance we can drop the captain for the next match. Awful player
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That 150 last match guarantees him another 10 tests

comment by (K̇ash) - Welcome to Mo Trafford - Free Palestine 🇵🇸 (U1108)
posted 54 minutes ago
comment by T.J (U15973)
posted 12 minutes ago
Any chance we can drop the captain for the next match. Awful player
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That 150 last match guarantees him another 10 tests
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The Ollie Pope effect.

As predicted we have got the pitch all wrong. Leach got some new ball turn but nothing since then and it is the seamers who look dangerous and have found some reverse.

comment by (K̇ash) - Welcome to Mo Trafford - Free Palestine 🇵🇸 (U1108)
posted 9 minutes ago
As predicted we have got the pitch all wrong. Leach got some new ball turn but nothing since then and it is the seamers who look dangerous and have found some reverse.
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Pitch will surely turn more on days 8/9/10 though so 4th innings will be tough provided Pakistan don't completely collapse in the third innings.

Rizwan nicks one but England decide against going to DRS.

old school comms breakdown on TMS

hadn't even realised it doesn't happen any more!

Englands day

More than handy with the bat is this Jamal fella but he's probably going to be asked to bowl a lot with the ball as the only seamer. Still think bowling 2nd and 4th means all the spinners isn't a bad option but as long as England don't go too hard at the ball then it's not too difficult to bat on once the ball goes soft.

Good to see tail wag but that only means that the wicket in day 7 is still a road.

England will make this score in a day

Get these two out FFS

this is a very slow pitch. batsmen have so much time to react..

Wicket first ball after lunch.

Reckon England will be close to this total by close of play

England should win but I have to warn you all that I bet on England to win at a price of 2.70 which was too good to turn down. So now watch Pakistan turn into the Australian bowling attack.