The Cricket Thread

[Squeak]

Well at least England has a reliable top order.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I know it's a flat pitch and first innings scores tend to be big in Pakistan whatever you do, but it's thoroughly unimpressive captaincy from Pope, just as it was at The Oval vs SL.

 

[Tony Towner]

Wondering what the bowling coach will day at the end of play

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We stuck in there, there's absolutely nothing in this pitch though, looks like a typical Pakistan surface where it's a road for three, possibly even four days.

328/4 at stumps.

 

[Carrotdude]

Feels like a complete waste of time playing on that

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Thing is you can very easily have 550 plays 550 and then 150 all out in Pakistan, it flips really quickly.

Looking at 2022, the First Test was 657 vs 579, then 264/7 dec vs 268

 

[jd1981]

4-1 pope gone

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Crawley and Root looking good. No scan for Duckett so hopefully he can bat tomorrow.

Elsewhere, keep your trap shut, Scrappy Doo. Lucky to be getting any games in any format as you are shit.

Sam Curran 'a bit gutted' to be overlooked as Stokes' Test replacement

Allrounder fears he might not 'fit the mould' in Brendon McCullum's England regime

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Duckett looks fine so far

 

[Sniffer]

Well done Joe

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Root goes past Cook as England's top test scorer. Two tests on this pitch and he could be getting quite close to Rahul Dravid.

 

[BillyDee]

Very glad that Root has taken that record away.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

And there is the century as well.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Well at least England has a reliable top order.

Scorecard
Crawley 78
Pope 0
Duckett 84
Root 100*
Brook 52*

Looks pretty reliable to me

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Root goes past Cook as England's top test scorer. Two tests on this pitch and he could be getting quite close to Rahul Dravid.

High expectations! He’s still 800 behind Dravid even taking into account these runs in this innings.
He’ll get there, but won’t be close for a while yet.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Oh I know! I was merely indicating QUITE how much of a road it is.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

TBF he could quite easily still be batting here in another two days!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

150 stand. 400 up.

This is the A1. It is fantastic to have tours to Pakistan back but the Multan pitch just isn't going to generate results.

 

[Carrotdude]

Poor Ollie Pope slapping one to a fielder second ball (great catch as well) watching the rest of the batters pad their stats nicely.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Apparently Harry Brook has more test centuries in Pakistan than Imran Khan