England (200 all out) beat Pakistan (155/9) by 45 runs at Headingley to level the T20 series 1-1

[Ami]

Its nothing serious people..Pakistsn just misread the pitch.

If England had chased Pakistan would have won...England just did a 'Pakistan' on Pakistan.

Win the toss at Old Trafford, bat first and strangle the English with spinners; just like we used to do with Ajmal, Afridi and Hafeez.

Bring in Usman, Faheem and Hasan...rest Azam, Haris and Husnain.

Babar
Rizwan
Max
Fakhar
Hafeez
Imad
Shadab
Faheem
Hasan
Usman
Afridi

Play this team, as a one off, even though I'm not a big fan of Faheem and we WILL win the series.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Its nothing serious people..Pakistsn just misread the pitch.

If England had chased Pakistan would have won...England just did a 'Pakistan' on Pakistan.

Win the toss at Old Trafford, bat first and strangle the English with spinners; just like we used to do with Ajmal, Afridi and Hafeez.

Bring in Usman, Faheem and Hasan...rest Azam, Haris and Husnain.

Babar
Rizwan
Max
Fakhar
Hafeez
Imad
Shadab
Faheem
Hasan
Usman
Afridi

Play this team, as a one off, even though I'm not a big fan of Faheem and we WILL win the series.

Fakhar should open.He is not a lower order batsman.Struggled against the spinners today.Amad Butt should have been selected instead of Faheem but it is too late.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Plus England shuffled a lot by Butler opening, Bairstow going down, Morgan not playing (I reckon he was the COVID infected player for sure; may be negative now , but still needs time to recover fully)
I dont see David Malan in England squad for T20; he has really regressed as a batsman in T20

My XI for England

Bairstow
Roy
Moeen Ali
Morgan
Woakes (In T20 I would even give chance to Woakes to swing his bat)
Livingstone
Stokes
Butler
Sam Curran
Archer
Mark Wood/ Jordan/
Rashid

This England side is very strong but on UAE pitches it may struggle against quality spinners.Credit goes to ECB for giving free reign to players to play fearless cricket.England used to be an ordinary team but with good coaching and good cricket structure they managed to pick the right players and developed them.

 

[Doc77]

Bottom line is that our team is clueless (players and management).... No game plan, no dynamic decisions, no understanding of what's happening in the game.

Hafeez is playing for his himself, Maqsood and Fakhar are not the most intelligent of batsmen, Azam is simply not a cricketer, Rauf again is clueless and at best a club level player, Shadab has lost it and needs to be sidelined till there is a drastic improvement. But the biggest virus in our team is Misbah and Waqar who both should have been shown the door last year.

Need to start again with new coach and build our team on Babar, Rizwan, Imad, and Afridi.

 

[bala977]

Quick one - couldn’t see this in the highlights - how big was that six from Livingstone? some were telling me that it was probably 130-140m

 

[Saj]

Poor decision to bowl first.
Poor team selection.
Poor tactics.

All in all, a day to forget.

 

[MenInG]

Quick one - couldn’t see this in the highlights - how big was that six from Livingstone? some were telling me that it was probably 130-140m

As Saj said, a day to forget!

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