England Touring Pakistan

[yertle-the-turtle]

You're in the UK, aren't you? The BBC SportsExtra commentary is not online but you can get it through your regular channels or whatever. Plus the whole thing is on Sky.

Poor bowling from Akthar and Sami, apparently, but no discredit to England. A good first innings total looks on the cards.

 

[the rockin edge]

You're in the UK, aren't you? The BBC SportsExtra commentary is not online but you can get it through your regular channels or whatever. Plus the whole thing is on Sky.

Poor bowling from Akthar and Sami, apparently, but no discredit to England. A good first innings total looks on the cards.

nope, I'm in the US so I can't get the sports extra or SKY


Marcus looking great, nice to see Bell get a good total too

 

[the rockin edge]

what a great innings by Tresco

it's an ok total...we just need to bowl well and things should look pretty good

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

England just lost Strauss and Bell in the same over.

My God and Collingwood's out too!

Still a makeable target, but Pietersen and Flintoff really need to steady the ship.

 

[the rockin edge]

it was all going so well early too

come on now Flintoff...

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Freddie gone for 11.

105 runs needed with 5 remaining.

 

[the rockin edge]

noooooooooooooooooo KP's out now too this can't be happening

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

97 to win.

Batting: Jones & Giles.

To Bat: Udal, Hoggard, Harmison.

Not looking good.

 

[cleazer]

They were looking good for a while, but then those final three wickets fell in super-quick succession. A good test with an exciting final day!

 

[the rockin edge]

that was a total collapse

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Speaking of collapses, how about this Pakistani first innings?

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Did I speak too soon?


Hahahahh there's egg on my face now!!!!111

 

[the rockin edge]

congrats to Bell & KP, a ton a piece...I just hope it's enough

 

[the rockin edge]

england all out for 446...16 less than pakistan. now lets see if we can bowl well

 

[bono_man2002]

Interesting game this one...thank heavens for pay TV, this is a much more interesting series than Australia/Windies at the moment

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Grr. I'm not receiving any coverage.

I think this match will be a draw.

 

[bono_man2002]

It looks that way, unless Pakistan go all out in a hurry.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

So much for Paul Collingwood and his 3-0 whitewash then.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

England 2nd innings (target: 285 runs) R M B 4 6
ME Trescothick b Shoaib Akhtar 0 4 0 0
AJ Strauss b Naved-ul-Hasan 0 6 0 0
*MP Vaughan lbw b Naved-ul-Hasan 9 15 1 0
IR Bell c Kamran Akmal b Shoaib Akhtar 0 7 0 0
KP Pietersen c sub (Asim Kamal) b Naved-ul-Hasan 42 65 4 0
A Flintoff c sub (Hasan Raza) b Shoaib Akhtar 56 98 9 1
+GO Jones not out 17 36 3 0
AF Giles not out 0 4 0 0
Extras (b 4, lb 8, nb 2) 14
Total (6 wickets, 38.5 overs) 138

To Bat: SD Udal, MJ Hoggard, SJ Harmison.

FoW: 1-1 (Trescothick, 0.3 ov), 2-5 (Strauss, 1.6 ov),
3-10 (Bell, 4.3 ov), 4-20 (Vaughan, 5.4 ov),
5-100 (Pietersen, 27.2 ov), 6-138 (Flintoff, 38.1 ov).

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Aha! Commentary of some sort, at last!

http://www.xaxoo.com/andaaz/

It's not TMS, and the site looks VERY dodgy, but anyway just check the 'our links' bit and pick 'cricket no. 12'...

 

[ibiarain]

the two matches have shown how crucial the toss is...am sure pak would have been in the same postion had they been bating last in the two test matches...1-0 to pak...thats all that matters

 

[cleazer]

England won the toss this time, and will bat first.

 

[cleazer]

England 93/0 at lunch.

Certainly off to a good start.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

We're at stumps on day one, England 248-6.

England 1st innings R B 4 6
ME Trescothick c Kamran Akmal b Shoaib Malik 50 117 9 0
*MP Vaughan c Mohammad Yousuf b Shoaib Malik 58 91 10 0
IR Bell c Mohammad Yousuf b Shoaib Malik 4 14 0 0
PD Collingwood not out 71 117 11 0
KP Pietersen c Kamran Akmal b Naved-ul-Hasan 34 63 2 1
A Flintoff c Shoaib Akhtar b Naved-ul-Hasan 12 26 2 0
+GO Jones b Danish Kaneria 4 17 0 0
SD Udal not out 10 20 1 0
Extras (lb 2, nb 3) 5
Total (6 wickets, 77 overs) 248

To Bat: MJ Hoggard, SJ Harmison, LE Plunkett.

FoW: 1-101 (Vaughan, 31.4 ov), 2-114 (Bell, 35.5 ov),
3-115 (Trescothick, 37.2 ov), 4-183 (Pietersen, 56.1 ov),
5-201 (Flintoff, 64.2 ov), 6-225 (Jones, 69.5 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Shoaib Akhtar 14 4 29 0 (1nb)
Naved-ul-Hasan 17 3 62 2
Mohammad Sami 14 2 53 0
Shoaib Malik 14 1 58 3 (2nb)
Danish Kaneria 18 2 44 1

 

[the rockin edge]

350 is now very optimistic, I hope we can bowl well

 

[cleazer]

England only managed 288.

The next 5 and a half hours should be telling. It's either going to be close, or Pakistan is going to run away with it.

 

[cleazer]

Okay, it didn't take very long to answer that question.

Pakistan currently at 12/2. All of a sudden, 288 doesn't look half bad.

 

[the rockin edge]

Pakistan 185-4, looks like we could be pretty close to even after the first innings

 

[cleazer]

How bad is Inzamam hurt? Is he out for the rest of the test?

 

[the rockin edge]

no, he's gonna bat on day 3

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/4485006.stm