The Cricket Thread

[Paddingtonwolf]

I say bat until tea. Try and post 900 plus. Then 10 sessions to somehow try and get 20 wickets on an absolute road.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1598225033633357825

Zak Crawley is to Pakistan what Dele Adebola was to Wolves.

 

[Tony Towner]

It's becoming a notorious road (there were over 1,100 runs for 14 wickets when Australia played here in March) but you still have to score the runs and it's a question of mindset as much as anything. The days of us crawling to 220-250 in a day are gone.

They were saying on TMS it's only the Tests they are preparing those tracks for. The average first innings score domestically is about 220 with most wickets falling to seam

 

[Carrotdude]

Yeah I saw a picture of a very green pitch at the same place from the domestic games

 

[Carrotdude]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1598191345143009280

 

[Sniffer]

Must be a PCB pitch to try and take the game as long as possible to maximise advertising/tv/gate receipts.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Pakistan has produced test roads for decades

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I believe our record over there is P24 W2 D18 L4!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Absolute road but the difference between England and Pakistan scoring rates is eye opening.

It’s like a different sport.

 

[Dinowolf]

At this rate it will take over 135 overs for Pakistan to catch us. Add in the time taken for the odd wicket taken and it doesn't leave a lot of time for anything else.

 

[Tony Towner]

We didn't pick a side to bowl them out twice, but I'm not sure Holding, Garner, Marshall and Harper would be getting 20 wickets on this deck

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Nobody would. It’s deader than flares.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Might as well declare it a draw now and move on to the next match. What an absolute shit heap of a pitch.

 

[Dinowolf]

England bowlers work hard to reach 499-7 at stumps

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

That’s a very good final session for England to have realistically only two possible results now. Must knock the last three over very quickly and hammer runs quickly tomorrow.

Draw still a huge favourite.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Well well well. England lead past 150 and thrashing it about. Both sides have said they are not interested in the draw.

 

[Carrotdude]

Have to be careful here, 5 down only 271 ahead

 

[Dinowolf]

Two wickets in an over and both Root (73)and Stokes (0) gone with the lead only 270.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Brook is majestic

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Clearly looking to declare about 450 ahead.