England vs Pakistan 2018
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IMHO if England managed to take lead in excess of 150, it would become a daunting task for the historically fragile Pakistani Top order batsmen to get over the line.
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7-8 are on field... what else is tail... 9-10?
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Pakistan tour of England, 2018
1st Test, Day 3, London
ENGLAND
184 & 235/6 (78.0) RR:3.01
PAKISTAN
363 (114.3)
Stumps, England lead by 56 runs
BATSMEN
Jos Buttler*
66 (130)
Dominic Bess
55 (101)
BOWLERS
Mohammad Amir*
2/35 (17)
Faheem Ashraf
0/31 (9)
1st Test, Day 3, London
ENGLAND
184 & 235/6 (78.0) RR:3.01
PAKISTAN
363 (114.3)
Stumps, England lead by 56 runs
BATSMEN
Jos Buttler*
66 (130)
Dominic Bess
55 (101)
BOWLERS
Mohammad Amir*
2/35 (17)
Faheem Ashraf
0/31 (9)
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Amir should bowl more overs shadab is not threatning bowler
Pak tomorow should bring amir to bess in swing will do the trick
Pak tomorow should bring amir to bess in swing will do the trick
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PAK on course to be LORDS at LORDS .........
and Pakistan is Lords of the Lords ........... Congrats
and Pakistan is Lords of the Lords ........... Congrats
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Another England collapse opens door for Pakistan's nine-wicket rout
Pakistan 363 (Babar 68*) and 66 for 1 (Haris 39*, Imam 18*) beat England 184 (Cook 70) and 242 (Root 68, Buttler 66, Bess 57, Abbas 4-41, Amir 4-37) by nine wickets.
In the end, a good night's sleep was all that Pakistan's rampant cricketers needed. After enduring a few jitters in the course of England's mini-revival on the third evening, normal service was resumed in emphatic fashion on the fourth morning at Lord's.
With Mohammads Abbas and Amir to the fore, Pakistan scalped England's supine lower order with four wickets for six runs in the space of 18 balls, before Imam-ul-Haq and Haris Sohail made light of the early loss of Azhar Ali to stroll across the finish line in an unbroken second-wicket stand of 54.
Pakistan's nine-wicket win was their second Test victory at Lord's in consecutive visits, following a famous win under Misbah-ul-Haq in 2016, but it was arguably even more remarkable given the callow nature of a line-up that lacks any of the great batting stars of their recent history, and a bowling attack which pales in experience compared to that of their opponents.
If there were any nerves in Pakistan's dressing room before the start of play, they were emphatically quashed by Abbas's second delivery of the morning. With the new ball around the corner, he thudded the old one into the front pad of Jos Buttler, a man who had done so well to take that dismissal out of the equation during his counter-attacking fifty on the third evening.
There was no recourse from DRS, however, and as he trudged off without addition to his overnight 66, England's scant hopes departed with him. Mark Wood had no answer to Amir's wiles when the new ball was taken midway through the next over - he grazed Amir through to Sarfraz for 4.
Abbas then repeated that trick with a mirror-image snick off the left-handed Stuart Broad for a duck, before Amir flattened Dom Bess's off stump to wrap up another woeful collapse. Bess did at least depart with huge personal credit after becoming the third youngest England player to make a fifty on debut - and the youngest, at 20 years and 306 days, to have been picked primarily for his bowling.
Pakistan needed 64 to win, then. A pretty facile target on the face of it, although few teams are better at making meals of small targets. So, when James Anderson found the ideal length to pluck out Azhar Ali's off stump for 4, there was a ripple of alarm at 12 for 1, especially with Babar Azam indisposed with a broken forearm.
But Imam-ul-Haq has seen this situation once already on this tour, having marshalled Pakistan's chase in a tense finale at Malahide earlier this month, and as he bedded in at one end, Haris Sohail displayed the fluency that met the needs of the hour at the other, to rush the score along at a fair clip.
In particular, Haris climbed into the spin of Bess, on a hiding to nothing with so few runs to defend. He was driven for three sublime fours to break the back of the chase, before a brace of full tosses in his final over sealed the deal - Haris slammed the first high into Mound Stand for six before slapping the winning four in the same direction.
There is little time for an inquest into England's humiliation - and make no mistake, regardless of Pakistan's excellence, their opponents have been largely woeful - given that the second Test at Headingley gets underway on Friday.
But not only was this Pakistan's eighth Test win in their last 11 against England, it was - incredibly - the first time England had lost the first Test of a home summer since 1995. Back then West Indies, still led by Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh in their pomp, routed them by nine wickets at Headingley. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
"It was not good enough, if I'm being brutally honest," said Joe Root, England's captain. "We were outperformed in all three disciplines."
Pakistan 363 (Babar 68*) and 66 for 1 (Haris 39*, Imam 18*) beat England 184 (Cook 70) and 242 (Root 68, Buttler 66, Bess 57, Abbas 4-41, Amir 4-37) by nine wickets.
In the end, a good night's sleep was all that Pakistan's rampant cricketers needed. After enduring a few jitters in the course of England's mini-revival on the third evening, normal service was resumed in emphatic fashion on the fourth morning at Lord's.
With Mohammads Abbas and Amir to the fore, Pakistan scalped England's supine lower order with four wickets for six runs in the space of 18 balls, before Imam-ul-Haq and Haris Sohail made light of the early loss of Azhar Ali to stroll across the finish line in an unbroken second-wicket stand of 54.
Pakistan's nine-wicket win was their second Test victory at Lord's in consecutive visits, following a famous win under Misbah-ul-Haq in 2016, but it was arguably even more remarkable given the callow nature of a line-up that lacks any of the great batting stars of their recent history, and a bowling attack which pales in experience compared to that of their opponents.
If there were any nerves in Pakistan's dressing room before the start of play, they were emphatically quashed by Abbas's second delivery of the morning. With the new ball around the corner, he thudded the old one into the front pad of Jos Buttler, a man who had done so well to take that dismissal out of the equation during his counter-attacking fifty on the third evening.
There was no recourse from DRS, however, and as he trudged off without addition to his overnight 66, England's scant hopes departed with him. Mark Wood had no answer to Amir's wiles when the new ball was taken midway through the next over - he grazed Amir through to Sarfraz for 4.
Abbas then repeated that trick with a mirror-image snick off the left-handed Stuart Broad for a duck, before Amir flattened Dom Bess's off stump to wrap up another woeful collapse. Bess did at least depart with huge personal credit after becoming the third youngest England player to make a fifty on debut - and the youngest, at 20 years and 306 days, to have been picked primarily for his bowling.
Pakistan needed 64 to win, then. A pretty facile target on the face of it, although few teams are better at making meals of small targets. So, when James Anderson found the ideal length to pluck out Azhar Ali's off stump for 4, there was a ripple of alarm at 12 for 1, especially with Babar Azam indisposed with a broken forearm.
But Imam-ul-Haq has seen this situation once already on this tour, having marshalled Pakistan's chase in a tense finale at Malahide earlier this month, and as he bedded in at one end, Haris Sohail displayed the fluency that met the needs of the hour at the other, to rush the score along at a fair clip.
In particular, Haris climbed into the spin of Bess, on a hiding to nothing with so few runs to defend. He was driven for three sublime fours to break the back of the chase, before a brace of full tosses in his final over sealed the deal - Haris slammed the first high into Mound Stand for six before slapping the winning four in the same direction.
There is little time for an inquest into England's humiliation - and make no mistake, regardless of Pakistan's excellence, their opponents have been largely woeful - given that the second Test at Headingley gets underway on Friday.
But not only was this Pakistan's eighth Test win in their last 11 against England, it was - incredibly - the first time England had lost the first Test of a home summer since 1995. Back then West Indies, still led by Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh in their pomp, routed them by nine wickets at Headingley. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
"It was not good enough, if I'm being brutally honest," said Joe Root, England's captain. "We were outperformed in all three disciplines."
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Thorough win by Pak. Total destruction of the opposition.
Outperformed in every department.
Gotta keep focused and try to win the next one. No time to get complacent. This could be a series win. This is a young confident and humble team. Willing to learn. Good attributes. The bowling unit is excellent and batting shows a lot of promise.
England played as expected. Arrogant and overconfident. This is what self entitlement and IPL cricket does.
Outperformed in every department.
Gotta keep focused and try to win the next one. No time to get complacent. This could be a series win. This is a young confident and humble team. Willing to learn. Good attributes. The bowling unit is excellent and batting shows a lot of promise.
England played as expected. Arrogant and overconfident. This is what self entitlement and IPL cricket does.
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Mohammad Abbas celebrates after taking the wicket of England's Stuart Broad, caught behind left who walks from the pitch during the fourth day of play of the first test cricket match between England and Pakistan at Lord's cricket ground in London, Sunday. — AP
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Pakistan play on England’s fears
THOSE who fear Test cricket’s future and harp on about how popular the shorter version of the game has become with the introduction of T20 should only have to show up when a Lord’s Test is on. And this one with Pakistan — the ever popular visitor to England — is not any different.
A packed house on all three days in which cricket has been of the highest class barring England’s first-innings decimation has come out to be a huge publicity for the condemned game for its lack of attendance in countries other than England.
Let me tell you that Test cricket like in England could have as much appeal in its nature if only the others are able to manage the game with as much efficacy as done by England authorities whose management at all levels of the game is second to none.
Facilities for the crowd, the players and fields have all been professionally managed.
And that is where most of the Asian countries lack, the reason why people keep away from the game. Security is another factor like we have at the moment in our own country ever since that horrific armed attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricketers in 2009.
The ghost of which still haunts the country and its cricket board.
But having mentioned that I would take my hats off for the way the PCB and our national team have been managing to emerge out of this crisis to to continue producing cricketers of superb ability which of course is on show here on this tour.
And after a hard-earned victory against Ireland in their backyard, Pakistan are now well poisedto dent England’s pride too.
And it all showed up yesterday as England trailing by 179 runs on the first innings stepped in for their second knock to experience the similar pressure of the first innings as Pakistan seamers went all out to expose the home team’s fragile-looking batting to a perilous position.
What gives me greatest pleasure is watching how consistently Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Abbas, Hasan Ali and company have managed to make England struggle for the second time in this match.
The crowd at Lord’s is incomparable, in appreciation and in acknowledging the finer points of the game they have no peers. And the discipline that they show in their applause and in understanding of the game makes a match even worth watching.
On the third morning, they warmly applauded when pace bowling legend Waqar Younis was given the honour to ring the Lord’s Bell at the start of play and continued to enjoy and appreciate the way Pakistan bowled with aggression to squeeze England.
THOSE who fear Test cricket’s future and harp on about how popular the shorter version of the game has become with the introduction of T20 should only have to show up when a Lord’s Test is on. And this one with Pakistan — the ever popular visitor to England — is not any different.
A packed house on all three days in which cricket has been of the highest class barring England’s first-innings decimation has come out to be a huge publicity for the condemned game for its lack of attendance in countries other than England.
Let me tell you that Test cricket like in England could have as much appeal in its nature if only the others are able to manage the game with as much efficacy as done by England authorities whose management at all levels of the game is second to none.
Facilities for the crowd, the players and fields have all been professionally managed.
And that is where most of the Asian countries lack, the reason why people keep away from the game. Security is another factor like we have at the moment in our own country ever since that horrific armed attack on the visiting Sri Lankan cricketers in 2009.
The ghost of which still haunts the country and its cricket board.
But having mentioned that I would take my hats off for the way the PCB and our national team have been managing to emerge out of this crisis to to continue producing cricketers of superb ability which of course is on show here on this tour.
And after a hard-earned victory against Ireland in their backyard, Pakistan are now well poisedto dent England’s pride too.
And it all showed up yesterday as England trailing by 179 runs on the first innings stepped in for their second knock to experience the similar pressure of the first innings as Pakistan seamers went all out to expose the home team’s fragile-looking batting to a perilous position.
What gives me greatest pleasure is watching how consistently Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Abbas, Hasan Ali and company have managed to make England struggle for the second time in this match.
The crowd at Lord’s is incomparable, in appreciation and in acknowledging the finer points of the game they have no peers. And the discipline that they show in their applause and in understanding of the game makes a match even worth watching.
On the third morning, they warmly applauded when pace bowling legend Waqar Younis was given the honour to ring the Lord’s Bell at the start of play and continued to enjoy and appreciate the way Pakistan bowled with aggression to squeeze England.
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I watched the whole match on TV.
Great fun to see the Pakistani cricketers showing spine & discipline. I would like to see if Pakistani can repeat the performance at Headingley to satisfy myself that this was not a ‘Flash in the pan’.
Great fun to see the Pakistani cricketers showing spine & discipline. I would like to see if Pakistani can repeat the performance at Headingley to satisfy myself that this was not a ‘Flash in the pan’.
