England (332/7) beat Pakistan (331/9) by three wickets to win the ODI series 3-0

[Rana]

Why take off Rauf????

 

[castortroy]

Here comes the other spray gun

 

[UzmanBeast]

Yorkers, yorkers, yorkers.

 

[Greenstorm]

Hassan has this issue of bowling length deliveries at death.

 

[castortroy]

These two look better than our top order

 

[Rafa]

Game over..not even bowling dots forget taking wickets

 

[Rana]

Just ended the game!

Why take off Rauf?????????

 

[castortroy]

Typical of Hasan Ali. He can't bowl 6 deliveries in one spot

Disgusting team

 

[Greenstorm]

Overton can bat

 

[Thanos]

Two quick wickets and it'll be over for Eng.
Pak is still there in game.

 

[jattafridi]

Better team won

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

England are crazyyy good

 

[UzmanBeast]

Only yorkers will guarantee dots. What's wrong with our death bowling?

 

[Energy]

No. 8 and No. 9 are manhandling our best bowlers and fielders. Lol worthy national embarrasment.

 

[Greenstorm]

Just ended the game!

Why take off Rauf?????????

This. Makes no sense

 

[Rana]

Two quick wickets and it'll be over for Eng.
Pak is still there in game.

None of these guys look like taking wickets. They want to go home

 

[kingusama92]

This is terrible captaincy by Babar.

Rauf was feeling it and he took him off.

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

Still no Rauf lol

 

[Greenstorm]

Dictator doesn't look happy.

 

[Maliq_Mudasir]

Still no Rauf. Babar has lost it.

 

[UzmanBeast]

Taking off Rauf has cost us the game. Never thought I'd say that.

 

[AdamM97]

The game is done and dusted boiz.

 

[castortroy]

Are there no economical bowlers in domestic cricket in Pak?

Asif and Amir are the last decent seamers who could contain

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

Babar is garbage

 

[Rana]

Freshy captaincy by a Freshy captain

Takeing off a wicket taker for guys who he thinks are BEST Bawler

 

[Greenstorm]

Seems like Babar doesn't like Rauf.

 

[AdamM97]

The silver lining here is that Misbah might get sacked.

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

What a bad captaincy by Babar

 

[castortroy]

Taking off Rauf has cost us the game. Never thought I'd say that.

He is a liability also. Would have sprayed it anyway

 

[Ahmed216]

No superstar celebration from now onwards plz shaheen

 

[Kaptan]

Need a hatrick by Shaheen Eagle Afridi.

 

[sindhiboy]

Every single English bowler can bat decently

 

[Rana]

He is a liability also. Would have sprayed it anyway

just put Mamoon agendas aside for once. Try and follow the game!

 

[kingusama92]

Freshy captaincy by a Freshy captain

Takeing off a wicket taker for guys who he thinks are BEST Bawler

Straight up threw the match away. Deserves to get roasted for this nonsense.

 

[Thanos]

That was horrible from Babar.
Why take off your bowler who is bringing you back in the game.

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

English tail bats better than our top order

 

[Greenstorm]

Shaheen has been disappointing. He is a better bowler than this.

 

[Shafi]

Misbah along with Waqar will get one or two year extension just before T20 World Cup.

 

[Rana]

Im so furious! We lost the game when Babar brought on Hassan.

Freshy captain!

 

[kingusama92]

Rauf doesn't even get a chance to complete his 10 overs. Unbelievable.

 

[ssuhaide]

Fitting that Shaheen concedes the winning runs.. total humiliation. Get those boys back on the plane.

 

[Maliq_Mudasir]

Congratulations England!!


Waqar and Misbah please resign, I beg u.

 

[Rana]

That was horrible from Babar.
Why take off your bowler who is bringing you back in the game.

every time it was Rauf who brought Pakistan back into the game. Every time!

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Lol. Record chase at Edgbaston and that too by a second string English team.

 

[Yk313]

[MENTION=152879]Yk313[/MENTION] this is what left right combo does, Hassan just bowls a peach and then bowls one down the leg side

Sorry, just seen this.

Again, in an ideal world agree with the theory of having combinations to help throw bowlers off their lengths / lines etc.

But given the current state of PAK cricket, I would look to play my best players in the most apt positions instead of making some other constraint my focal point.

I didn’t watch the particular or the spell unfortunately so cannot comment on clues of his rhythm being disrupted due to the combination.

I would, however, think that this in itself should not throw off a good bowler as easily.

 

[Forward Defensive Push]

So English C team have chased down the best possible score our best team can make. Heads should roll. Babar should be stripped of captaincy

 

[Mamoon]

My my my ) ) )

 

[Josh]

England has such depth but inexperienced in Pakistan bowling lineup is so clear to see. Good game nonetheless

 

[jattafridi]

Babar can learn lot of thing from this game

 

[Rana]

Man I cant deal with this Freshy cricket politics!!!

Its like we are back in the 90s with Saleem Malik as captain and Wasim/Waqar beefing with groups etc!

 

[Greenstorm]

The silver lining here is that Misbah might get sacked.

We will need a thrashing from windies for that to happen.

 

[Yk313]

Wonderful, wonderful chase. Wonderful example of talent, structure, brains / match awareness and cricketing acumen coming together to trump PAK Stragglers XI.

A professional outfit should always triumph over PAK 9/10 games in LOIs.

 

[Snowflake]

Babar's captaincy game is wayyyyy below par. Very very poor showing

 

[Nazir_ Rules]

Absolutely terrible captaincy. Shaheen better not get a pass for the trash he bowled today, needs to be called out.

 

[Thephenom]

How embarrassing, we make 300 plus runs and we still loose to England’s C team, Wasim Khan, Misbah and Waqar have a lot of explaining to do!

 

[Snatch]

England kind of made hard work of that to end up 7 down.

Great effort from Pakistan at least competing today.

The gulf between these two sides is enormous.

 

[MenInG]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Highest run-chases against Pakistan in ODIs;<br><br>359/4 by England at Bristol in 2019<br>341/7 by England at Nottingham in 2019<br>332/7 by England at Birmingham today<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ENGvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ENGvPAK</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1415036542876323840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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[Snatch]

Absolutely terrible captaincy. Shaheen better not get a pass for the trash he bowled today, needs to be called out.

Well you just called him out didn't you?

 

[MenInG]

 

[Walawalkar]

Congratulations England
This is young Pakistan team under young captain..cut them some slack..well fought
Terrible fielding lost Pakistan game
Only silver lining..King Babar back in the business...

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

Congrats to the England 'C' team for an outstanding series win against a full strength Pakistan side.
England certainly have reserve players to make them the best side in the world.

 

[zacattakk]

Congratulations England!!


Waqar and Misbah please resign, I beg u.

They are too shameless to resign.

 

[Adnan_Ilyas]

Brilliant series from England- well done to them.

Pakistan same old - Babar Azam and Rizwan no one else cares to contribute.

Cant field or bowl either.

 

[Snatch]

Congratulations England
This is young Pakistan team under young captain..cut them some slack..well fought
Terrible fielding lost Pakistan game
Only silver lining..King Babar back in the business...

I agree, there's no point delusional fans beating up on Pakistan, they're were clearly outclassed across the board by that England XI

 

[sindhiboy]

This was one of the most hilarious matches this year

 

[zacattakk]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Highest run-chases against Pakistan in ODIs;<br><br>359/4 by England at Bristol in 2019<br>341/7 by England at Nottingham in 2019<br>332/7 by England at Birmingham today<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ENGvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ENGvPAK</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1415036542876323840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Really shows how much our bowling has declined in the past few years. And how good England are at limited overs batting

 

[iniqbal223]

just to bring back fresh perspective

South Africa C team also almost chased the target against us in 3rd ODI

We are only good against Zimbabwe, this is absolute fact

And for Babar, he again scored against C team (fastest 14 ODI 100) of which only 1 against NZ in WC 19 was of value , others were either against B/C teams or against Zimbabwe

 

[Walawalkar]

I agree, there's no point delusional fans beating up on Pakistan, they're were clearly outclassed across the board by that England XI

Yes...this England B team will give most international team run for their money... undoubtedly best white ball team I have seen in last 20 years..

 

[JSKhan]

Really really disappointed. Misbah and Waqar need to go. We've seen 10+ years of this sort of cricket mindset. I've had enough

 

[Rajdeep]

Never seen a captain looked so disinterested as Ben Stokes looked this series. Looks like he was teleported straight from his bed to the ground and forced to play

 

[Snatch]

Yes...this England B team will give most international team run for their money... undoubtedly best white ball team I have seen in last 20 years..

To be fair, I'd say that side was closer to an England C than B side given the 12-13 better English players missing.

But I disagree with you. I'd say NZ, India & Australia would have beaten that English side at least 2-1, if not 3-0

 

[HappyWarsFan]

Lmao, even Ireland won a game against a stronger English team last year.

 

[Mamoon]

Congratulations England
This is young Pakistan team under young captain..cut them some slack..well fought
Terrible fielding lost Pakistan game
Only silver lining..King Babar back in the business...

We have been cutting slack for years but to not avail.

Sometimes we are a young team, sometimes we are an old team, sometimes we have a bad captain, sometimes we have a bad selector, sometimes we have a bad coach.

The bottom-line is that we are an absolute joke of a cricket team with no talent, no skill and no mental strength.

 

[Rajdeep]

Pakistan should have won this game. This is actually the worst defeat among all 3 games. You are expected to defend 336 runs against a county side.

 

[Snatch]

Lmao, even Ireland won a game against a stronger English team last year.

Exactly, even the top English XI while good, are beatable.

 

[Snatch]

Pakistan should have won this game. This is actually the worst defeat among all 3 games. You are expected to defend 336 runs against a county side.

No, on good English wickets in the last 5-6 years 330-340 is only par. This was one of those wickets.

 

[MenInG]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The bowlers and fielders will quite rightly get criticism but 2 periods in the batting had an impact on Pakistan's total:<br><br>First 17 overs - 59/1<br>Last 26 balls - 39/7<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cricket?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cricket</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ENGvPAK?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ENGvPAK</a></p>— Saj Sadiq (@Saj_PakPassion) <a href="https://twitter.com/Saj_PakPassion/status/1415041857869041670?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 13, 2021</a></blockquote>
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[Thephenom]

Give Misbah and Waqar a lot of credit, they’ve certainly coached Babar well from their book of excuses!

 

[Omer2002]

I said from beginning we wont defend this its not about reserve or not we dont have thosw calibre of players...babz took 15 balls to get off the mark..in this day and age thats criminal

 

[Artaxerxes]

Poor fielding and poor bowling cost Pakistan the match.The pitch was excellent for batting.Bowlers bowled too many short and wide balls.The ball did not swing.England were 2-0 up so had nothing to fear.They players were told from match one to go and play fearless cricket and not worry about losing.That is what they did.Pakistan were defensive throughout the series.This is Misbah’s way.He did not give a chance to new players even against Zimbabwe for fear of losing.If you have that sort of mindset then you will lose.