England v Sri Lanka & Pakistan

Leuth

Also, Bairstow should be at 4 or 5. How he isn't is baffling

killerandflash

Leuth said:

Game on? Needs an England middle-order player to bat properly for that

I meant that England are in a real contest, and can't just rely on Cook to bat them into a lead

And the lower middle (Bairstow, Moeen, Woakes) will either get out OR score lots of runs, and quickly

Leuth

Whoops!

suzisausage

Bairstow bowled for 29.

suzisausage

193 for 6

suzisausage

In other news. My 50p per cup deposit for gin turned into a £4 refund for 2 cups. #winning

The_President

dickplumb said:

Snail gone. He is just not good enough.

Wow, you are all so keen to jump on a man who has a Test average of 47 over 15 tests - its his first innings back in the team - give him a chance ffs.

Lincsaddick

yet another very fragile England batting performance

killerandflash

Yasir Shah showing he can do it away from the UAE, a major talent, it's good to see another top class spinner in action after a bit of a dry period recently

The_President

Is everyone at the game today? very quiet on ere.

suzisausage

Laying on the sofa (napping) watching it today.

It's also going incredibly slowly! 129-5

Todds_right_hook

Woakes is looking very good.

The_President

England struggling

red_murph

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cantersaddick

What is the score? In the new forest fuck all connection. BBC sport or cricinfo won't load...

The_President

Pak 183-6 - lead by 250.

The_President

Poor display by England in this test.

The_President

bad miss by Bairstow to let Shah off hook

The_President

208-7 lead by 275.

The_President

214-8
Woakes 5 wickets

suzisausage

214-8

The_President

214-8 EOP

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I went today. It was absolutely roasting.

LenGlover

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I went today. It was absolutely roasting.

Is 300 or so attainable for England do you think?

SantaClaus

LenGlover said:

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I went today. It was absolutely roasting.

Is 300 or so attainable for England do you think?

Shah's got under the skin of this England team. I think they already know that they're beaten. You've got to love a talent like that even if he's playing for the opposition.

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LenGlover said:

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I went today. It was absolutely roasting.

Is 300 or so attainable for England do you think?

Well history says not. However, it's been a strange game, because I can't see much in the wicket to trouble batsman, apart from the odd low ball.

There's little pace, bounce, swing, movement or spin. It's a bit of mystery to me why the scores are so low.

But like I say history says we won't do it, so we need to get the last 2 wickets for less than 20 and pray.

killerandflash

You can't blame the England bowlers, they did their job today, it's the frailness of the England batting that's the main issue.

Something I'll no doubt see at close hand, as I'm going tomorrow!

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killerandflash said:

You can't blame the England bowlers, they did their job today, it's the frailness of the England batting that's the main issue.

Something I'll no doubt see at close hand, as I'm going tomorrow!

Take your sun hat & sun cream, like I say it was absolutely scorchio.

I reckon Yasir will spin us out & we'll lose either today or tomorrow by about 50 runs if they don't get many more today.

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214-9

Yasir c Bairstow b Broad 30

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215 All Out

We have a decent chance to win. I didn't expect us to get them out for only 1 run.

Game on I think, England might just do it, but it's 50/50 for me.