England Touring Pakistan

[the rockin edge]

all because the ashes made me a cricket fan

England 256-9 after 1st day of 1st tour match

 

[beau2ifulday]

Man, talk about a shaky start

Thank God for Marcus


I'm still riding high on them winning the Ashes. This was a bit of a wake up call.

 

[the rockin edge]

Indeed, Marcus may have saved us this time It should get better for England, this being the first match in Pakistan

 

[timothius]

England are currently cleaning up the least desireable colonies from worst up. Now that Australia has been dealt with, we take a giant leap up to the terriorist harbouring national hotel that is Pakistain.

For some reason a lot of pundits are expecting England to struggle here, but I don't quite understand. In my mind England are the best test team in the world at the moment, and really have only one weakness - the lack of a quality spinner. They can cover it up nicely in England but on the dustbowls of Karachi this is a different story... but I still think they will overcome this and win the series (or at worst draw).

I also would like to send up a few thoughts for their safety in Pakistain, as I know of the terrible experiences some touring countries have been put through there in the past few years.

 

[uglyday]

so, therockinedge, what is this game you speak of?

Crick-it?

 

[the rockin edge]

nice to hear your input tim

so, therockinedge, what is this game you speak of?

Crick-it?

ask tim, he knows

 

[beau2ifulday]

TRE,

crick-it



foot-ball





cheese-cake

 

[timothius]

so, therockinedge, what is this game you speak of?

Crick-it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket

Thats a fairly concise description of this fairly simple game... 5000 words or so.

 

[the rockin edge]

^

TRE,

crick-it



foot-ball





cheese-cake

 

[beau2ifulday]

damnit. I wish you were still in Britain, then you'd actually have a clue what the hell i'm going on about.


I've only just realised you have no clue what the fuck i'm referring to.





now that i've adequately embarassed myself, I will leave you cricketers in peace.

 

[timothius]

lem-on

 

[beau2ifulday]

< lo-ser

 

[the rockin edge]

^ not a loser

damnit. I wish you were still in Britain, then you'd actually have a clue what the hell i'm going on about.


I've only just realised you have no clue what the fuck i'm referring to.





now that i've adequately embarassed myself, I will leave you cricketers in peace.

sorry

I wish I was there too

 

[timothius]

go-at

(can I just point out the beauty of these cricket threads is that the mods no nothing about the game, so we can pretty much deviate off topic as much as the thread starter allows, and we can tell them its all part of the sport)

 

[the rockin edge]

tim-tam

 

[timothius]

bo-gan

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Collingwood was an idiot to say that England will whitewash Pakistan, considering what Glenn McGrath was saying before the Ashes.

That said, I don't think he's far off. I don't think it'll be a whitewash, but I'm looking at a 2-0 series win.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Hell I thought the England first innings were poor; the second is worse! 39-6 at the mo.

The only comfort was the PCB first innings were somehow even worse than England's. Not the way they want to start the Tour; then again, this match doesn't have first class status and there's no continuity between the innings but still.

 

[beau2ifulday]

go-at?



she-ep more likely.

 

[the rockin edge]

Hell I thought the England first innings were poor; the second is worse! 39-6 at the mo.

that's not the news I want to wake up to

 

[the rockin edge]

we won, wow...though we sure will need to bat much better than this in the tests

 

[Axver]

go-at

(can I just point out the beauty of these cricket threads is that the mods no nothing about the game, so we can pretty much deviate off topic as much as the thread starter allows, and we can tell them its all part of the sport)

Hey Tim, tell me all you know about Neil Finn.

By the way, you win for the 'bo-gan' comment.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

And now Vaughan is injured.

I don't expect an England Rugby sort of post-glory collapse and I still see England winning the series though.

 

[the rockin edge]

And now Vaughan is injured.

indeed

lets hope it's not that serious

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

England solve the problem of their middle order batting collapses!

Unfortunately, their top order has to collapse first for that to happen:

England XI 2nd innings R M B 4 6
ME Trescothick lbw b Mohammad Asif 1 20 9 0 0
AJ Strauss c Amin-ur-Rehman b Shahid Nazir 56 130 98 7 0
*MP Vaughan retired hurt 0 6 1 0 0
KP Pietersen lbw b Mohammad Asif 0 3 1 0 0
PD Collingwood c Shahid Nazir b Mansoor Amjad 61 100 70 6 4
A Flintoff c Shahid Nazir b Mansoor Amjad 28 28 19 4 2
+GO Jones c Amin-ur-Rehman b Mansoor Amjad 30 89 63 4 0
AF Giles c Shahid Nazir b Mohammad Asif 49 112 83 9 0
SD Udal c Faisal Athar b Mansoor Amjad 12 14 19 2 0
MJ Hoggard b Mansoor Amjad 3 7 8 0 0
SJ Harmison not out 9 0 11 1 0
Extras (b 4, lb 1, w 2) 7
Total (all out, 63.4 overs) 256

FoW: 1-4 (Trescothick), 2-10 (Pietersen), 3-123 (Strauss),
4-123 (Collingwood), 5-154 (Flintoff), 6-212 (Jones),
7-226 (Udal), 8-230 (Hoggard), 9-256 (Giles).

OK that's a bit unfair to Andy Strauss and Vaughan's injured of course so it's not a bad score at all but you kinda expect Trescothick and Pietersen to have more than a single between them.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Oh dear.

 

[the rockin edge]

Oh dear.

 

[the rockin edge]

well Vaughan's out of the 1st test so Trescothick is captain

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

One wicket left. Good bowling performance from England, but they've got to capitalise on it.

Incidentally the BBC is not providing any live commentary (except for some irritating 'updates' from Five Live) and there's no television coverage of this here, so I'm relying on cricinfo's text commentary.

 

[the rockin edge]

Incidentally the BBC is not providing any live commentary (except for some irritating 'updates' from Five Live) and there's no television coverage of this here, so I'm relying on cricinfo's text commentary.

i'm just getting the bbcs update system, I want radio

Pakistan all out for 274