Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:51 pm  

Just watched the highlights of today's play, very disappointing display from our batsmen - but not unexpected in the face of a decent spinner.

We seemed to score at a reasonable rate off the seamers and Pakistan didn't seem too troubled by them either, could be a mistake only going into the game with Swann as a front-line spinner.

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:30 pm  

Asim wrote:

We seemed to score at a reasonable rate off the seamers and Pakistan didn't seem too troubled by them either, could be a mistake only going into the game with Swann as a front-line spinner.

especially given monty took 8 in the last warm up game

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:21 am  

Pakistan 199-3

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:21 pm  

288-7 at the close, couple of late wickets making the score look a little more respectable for England.

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Wed Jan 18, 2012 1:36 pm  

Andy Gilder wrote:

288-7 at the close, couple of late wickets making the score look a little more respectable for England.

Been listening quite a lot this morning, consensus seems to be that the bowlers had done an ok job, just 'defending' a low total.

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:46 pm  

Still pretty open IMO.

England traditionally start badly on tour and this has been no exception - Last winter's Ashes series started almost as badly, yet we managed to rescue it.

I think if we can keep Pakistan under 350, then we might still have an outside chance of winning this one...They have a bit of a reputation of folding when in control of a match and if set anything over 200 to win, it will be interesting to see how they stand up to the pressure.

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Wed Jan 18, 2012 10:44 pm  

If we can get them out for around 320 and then score about the same they might struggle on a day 4/5 pitch to get 200 to win the game.

That said it will largely depend on how we play Ajmal as will the series.

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:04 am  

The crowds have been pretty poor. Looks like day 4 of the 2nd, 4th and 5th Ashes tests.

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:35 am  

28-3
Gul has all three
Strauss wasn't happy about his
KP duck - is he purely there on reputation? seemingly little consistency these days, or is that harsh?

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:29 am  

Aggregate totals from those who have two completed innings in the game thus far

Strauss 23
Cook 8
KP 2
Bell 4