Day 1, 3rd Test; Pakistan vs England at Headingley

[iZeeshan]

Gul unsettling Hoggard. Please lets get Hoggard to apply SOME sort of pressure.

 

[Amjid Javed]

superb ball from gul, hoggy just pokes and misses!

 

[samisback]

Gul on the money for a change , good stuff.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Good over from gul, 2 overs left.

we need to get Bell out!

 

[iZeeshan]

Come on Gul, let him get a single. Then let Sami do the work

 

[ali_ed2006]

only time bell got out in this series was that run out....i dont know how we will get him out

 

[Amjid Javed]

bell hooks and gets a single of sami.

eng 346/5

 

[Amjid Javed]

sami bowls a straight ball the 1st one hes bowled all match!

 

[iZeeshan]

Good yorker from Sami..

 

[b0wld]

only time bell got out in this series was that run out....i dont know how we will get him out

give him the slower ball thingie...bell whne played in pak was out 4 times on slow balls...made a donkey out of himself... in this series no one has tried to bowl slower balls to Bell

 

[PlanetPakistan]

yea Bell's wicket here will get us back in the game

 

[Amjid Javed]

Eng 346/5

last over coming up.

 

[b0wld]

to tell u the truth...other than th umpiring the pakistani team body language has been same as OT... it seems to inzi that this series is lost for them coz his main bowlers & batsman are all injured

 

[Amjid Javed]

Bell edges and it drops infrotn of inzi, why didnt akmal dive!

argghhhh!

 

[ali_ed2006]

damn, edge just short

 

[B-Man]

No luck for Pak today, inshAllah we'l have some tomos

 

[Amjid Javed]

3 balls left gul bowling to hoggy.

 

[Muhammad]

That was Kami's catch, but I think previous incidents are playing on his mind

 

[Amjid Javed]

Gone! superb stuff from gul!

4th wicket!

Eng 347/6

end of days play!

 

[ali_ed2006]

Hoggard Bowled

 

[iZeeshan]

ANd thats OUT! Umar Gul picks up his 4th wicket. Well I guss I can feel a little batter.

Hoggy gone!

Stumps.

 

[ataullah]

gullllllll. 346-7

 

[ali_ed2006]

i wish it was 346-7


its 347-6

 

[b0wld]

Guls has been superb today.. i hope pakistan are prepared for harmisson attack..this pitch will cewrtainly help him...if pakistan can deal with harmy then this test is ours..

 

[Amoeba]

i wish it was 346-7


its 347-6

Yes and if Butt 0 had pulled his fingers out of his hair it would be.

 

[Muhammad]

A real shame we didn't play Rao Iftikhar in place of Nazir otherwise we could've bowled England out.

Sami bowled his heart out, it just wasn't his day.

 

[Waqar's inswinging yorker]

A real shame we didn't play Rao Iftikhar in place of Nazir otherwise we could've bowled England out.

Sami bowled his heart out, it just wasn't his day.

nazir was simply superb with the ball, if anything sami was the one that didnt deserve to play

 

[sharuk]

A real shame we didn't play Rao Iftikhar in place of Nazir otherwise we could've bowled England out.

Sami bowled his heart out, it just wasn't his day.

What? you need glasses

 

[PlanetPakistan]

So guys KP will be coming tomorrow!
If we can break the KP Bell Partnership with in the 1st 4 or 5 overs then we will be back in the game

 

[Amjid Javed]

sadly i think england have more than enuf runs already on this wicket to force a win.

 

[Amoeba]

So guys KP will be coming tomorrow!
If we can break the KP Bell Partnership with in the 1st 4 or 5 overs then we will be back in the game

Big IF! We lack the confidence to even take basic catches. Even if we did get one of the two we are still looking at 400 plus which is more than plenty.

More likely there will be an early onslaught tomorrow and we'll be batting by lunch.

 

[b0wld]

We should hav PLAYED 5 Bowlers...i mean our strength is bowling & yet we made it our weakness...should hav gone with 5 bowlers & afridi as opener & 6th bowler as well... i dont care if he gets out 1st ball..atleast he can be helpul elsewhere...

PATHETIC PAKISTANI STARTING XI

 

[iZeeshan]

Iftikhar is out of the squad upon his father's death.

 

[zMario]

Well, if we bowl England out for under 400, we can win

 

[Muhammad]

Nazir had nothing to lose and there wasn't much pressure on him, he knew he was coming after a long time and the expectation was not much.

But the pressure on Sami was tremendous, he'd come off some poor performances so everyones eye was going to be on him. In the circumstances you've got to give him credit for not giving up and he kept on running in and trying. OK he may have conceded runs at about 6 an over but it could've been worse he could've gone for 8 an over but credit to the lad he didn't.

Also remember it was he that made the first breakthrough with a very clever deceptive bit of bowling, Trescothick was well and truly fooled.

 

[Amoeba]

We should hav PLAYED 5 Bowlers...i mean our strength is bowling & yet we made it our weakness...should hav gone with 5 bowlers & afridi as opener & 6th bowler as well... i dont care if he gets out 1st ball..atleast he can be helpul elsewhere...

PATHETIC PAKISTANI STARTING XI

The only change I would have made would be Yasir for Sami. Apart from that I think it the best current line up we can put out.

If we could take catches and maintain discipline i.e. not bowl no-balls then we would have a chance.