England v Pakistan | 1st Test | Lord's | Jul 14-18, 2016 | Day 3

[Mamoon]

Pakistan pacers really have to step up here, they have nene comfortably outbowled by their counterparts without their main pacer playing.

Can't bank on Yasir every innings, England will probably look to just play him out because they were a bit reckless against him, especially the likes of Root who underestimated his threat in England.

 

[Majestic_Inzi]

Anything below 300 would be easy to chase. Not sure why Pakistani batsmen have gone in shell without any effort to score any run.

exactly the pressure was on eng but pakistan have played poorly. Few positive shots would have dented engs confidence..

 

[#GreenRoars]

Lots of responsibility on this pair.

 

[Hasan123]

Don't think Azhar was out tbh

 

[imshally81]

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[IcedCoffee]

What on earth?

 

[hur rizvi]

WTH misbah

 

[#GreenRoars]

 

[castortroy]

Game over

 

[Mamoon]

Misbah outdoing Root. What a brain freeze.

 

[t_kaay]

what the hell was he thinking

 

[aukhan]

OMG Misbah

 

[Gabbar Singh]

Wow what a stupid shot under the circumstances.

 

[marlonbrowndo]

What did Misbah just do........

 

[Hasan123]

Joke of a shot from Misbah what was he thinking

 

[#GreenRoars]

Idiotic shot and thinking Misbah, there was no need of doing such blunder Why why why?

 

[Ab Fan]

Yoni is very poor against pace.I don't think he will succeed in this series with this technique and body posture.

 

[hur rizvi]

England ahead by quite some now

 

[majiz]

vintage pak this

 

[Speedster1]

WTH Misbah out with a slog

 

[Amjid Javed]

Misbah gone for a duck! slog sweep and caught on mid wicket boundary!

pakistan in deep trouble now!

 

[ammar93]

Aw man why'd Misbah do this?!

 

[Hasan123]

Need a partnership from Shafiq and Younis now.

 

[MMHS]

Azhar Ali has a problem: he often decides on blocking for a period of the game without looking at the quality of balls being blocked. It's almost the opposite of reckless aggression; its reckless blocking. And it allows the opposition to bowl to a plan. I repeat, he is wasting his good form.

He actually harms team from No. 3 more than he serves. It's not exposed in UAE as the next 4 men are absolute maestros in UAE - each has like 60/60 stats there.

Misbah gone - PAK is trying their best to bring Newlands here.

 

[shah_1]

Pakistan losing this

Hero in first innings and zero in second

 

[SpiritOf1903]

Pakollapse hands England the match!

 

[PakFan2010]

Oh dear! Time for Younis Khan to step up.

 

[castortroy]

I did say pak will barely get a lead of 200

Batting is still so brittle in these conditions

 

[Muhammad10]

Oh dear. What have you done???????

 

[blackanhyellow]

Misbah didn't need to go for that shot at this point but I blame YK for this wicket.

Not scoring is putting pressure on the team plans.

 

[aukhan]

Misbah Gifted his wicket to this garbage bowler. I can't believe it.

 

[t_kaay]

England favourites to win now I would say. Looks like we gonna set them 200 to win. Hope those of you who wanted a more aggressive approach are happy now.

 

[Ab Fan]

And this is pathetic from MISBAH.

 

[Amjid Javed]

We will struggle to get lead up to 200 now

 

[hur rizvi]

REally this is looking like a sub 100s score type effort.

We need atleast 250 lead to have a chance

 

[Khan12]

Giving this game away very very poor from Misbah.

 

[Mamoon]

We are finished here. Congratulations England.

It is clear that we do not have the winning mentality or the cutting edge.

We surrended a match-winning position due to our poor approach in the second innings.

This team doesn't have the balls to win outside UAE and Sri Lanka.

I blame the fans for keeping lofty expectations from these losers.

 

[#GreenRoars]

Didn't expect such blunder from Misbah

 

[Strike!]

At least get set firat before trying to be aggressive. That was your second ball.

 

[Pete Rose]

Looks like they will be chasing 175

 

[PakFan2010]

Pak will score 200 surely and set England around 270/280.

 

[hur rizvi]

Misbah didn't need to go for that shot at this point but I blame YK for this wicket.

Not scoring is putting pressure on the team plans.

There is noone but Misbah to blame for this wicket. He was on a big fat zero FGS

 

[theariezman]

Misbah has done Afridi thing this time.

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[supersix]

9 out of 10 times Misbah clears the boundary, just unlucky...

 

[Majestic_Inzi]

what stupidity, nothing wrong with the wicket..

What did i say misbah will make nothing this innings..

 

[Sarfarazian92]

*** was that Misbah

 

[adarsh_bang]

Well well well... The familiar Pakistan batting implosion.. Where's this game headed. Yk Asad and Sarfraz will have to bat out of their skins here.. Pressure is back on Pakistan... Yasir must be crying

 

[Amjid Javed]

One of these two needs to make a hundred now! shambolic batting display so far!

 

[IcedCoffee]

England favourites to win now I would say. Looks like we gonna set them 200 to win. Hope those of you who wanted a more aggressive approach are happy now.

Aggressive doesn't mean to go all out slogging your first or second ball faced.

 

[IAJ]

Had it gone for 6 everyone would have been applauding him.

Anyways he is a pakistani after all, so not surprised lols

 

[Red Devil]

60-4 on such a flat wicket.

 

[Muhammad10]

We're in massive trouble. It's as if we only enjoy making life hard for ourselves on the pitch. Our batsmen are completely to blame.

What an excellent position we were in, but you can't get away with such costly errors in overseas Tests. Bitterly disappointing.

Even if you hand cake on a platter to Pakistani batsmen, you can rest assured they will drop it.

 

[hur rizvi]

We are finished here. Congratulations England.

It is clear that we do not have the winning mentality or the cutting edge.

We surrended a match-winning position due to our poor approach in the second innings.

This team doesn't have the balls to win outside UAE and Sri Lanka.

I blame the fans for keeping lofty expectations from these losers.

This match is reminding me of that Duraban match against SA where Ajmal took a tenfer

 

[aukhan]

9 out of 10 times Misbah clears the boundary, just unlucky...

yeah but why do it on the second delivery you face. Atleast get settled before hitting.

 

[imshally81]

2oo runs lead minimum please

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[Canistani Hero]

Relax. Shafiq and Sarfraz need to step up. Misbah wanted to set the tone, break the shackles..a six and people would be lauding him for setting the tempo..some people here just look for a chance to crucify misbah

 

[haroon91]

yoni to score a 4th innings 100

 

[IcedCoffee]

Had it gone for 6 everyone would have been applauding him.

Anyways he is a pakistani after all, so not surprised lols

And if it had, it would have been a good judgement. However, it clearly wasn't, and even if it had in this instance, i'd still be concerned seeing he's only faced 2 deliveries before this.

 

[castortroy]

The wicket has probably been the flattest it has all match. England bat so deep that a score of 300 must be posted but I can see pak being bundled out here for 120

 

[Justcrazy]

Pakistan would be lucky to get 200 here

 

[Canistani Hero]

Younis is going uncharacterisicly slow, need a single every over atleeast

 

[PakFan2010]

Time for Younis to deliver a big innings under pressure. That's what world class players do.

 

[hur rizvi]

Had it gone for 6 everyone would have been applauding him.

Anyways he is a pakistani after all, so not surprised lols

There is absolutely no excuse for that. Even a six shot with fielder on the boundary would have been a bad shot

 

[jusarrived]

tbh the thinking was not bad from Misbah & he targetted the right bowler too . The innings needed some momentum & few boundaries could have helped here . Just the execution was bad .

 

[Mini786]

Misbah didn't need to go for that shot at this point but I blame YK for this wicket.

Not scoring is putting pressure on the team plans.

Totally agree, not scoring and younis hopping around like he's facing Shoaib of old has really added pressure to the rest of the batting line up.....no need for any of this.....one big collective brain ****.

There is noone but Misbah to blame for this wicket. He was on a big fat zero FGS

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[theariezman]

Cook looks so calm...he knew Pakistan is gonna make some mistake.

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[Watsupdoc]

This is all too familiar from Pak - going at under 2 per over and losing wickets at regular intervals...

 

[Hasan123]

Younis is a joke vs pacers. Can't even hit the ball into a gap and get a single

 

[Speedster1]

Pak will score 200 surely and set England around 270/280.

Hoping for this at least

 

[PakFan2010]

Younis Khan has lost the plot.

 

[hur rizvi]

Younus is absolutely going no where with this

 

[IcedCoffee]

We need more Shafiq's in the side. Seriously need to consider bringing in some Pak A batsmen into the side. I say Babar Azam really needs to come in here.

 

[MMHS]

5/2 in last 10 overs - and that after a lead of 67. I don't think players are mentally tough enough to take pressure.

 

[aukhan]

What is younis trying to do

 

[ViciousMachine]

lol !! I love to see the rage on this forum. 100% agreed with IAJ.

The same people upset that Azhar was defending and got out, and now upset that Misbah tried to attack and got out. Typical Pakistanis, get upset once you know the result, regardless of the action taken by the team.

Still just need 1 big partnership to take back control, hopefully Asad is in good form and YK can deliver a good innings for us.

 

[classic]

Relax ...Asad, Sarfraz and Younus will muster up 200 runs ..We can still get a lead of 350 but need to play Tuk Tuk style till tea. This will be a grinder now .

 

[Majestic_Inzi]

they will not make 200 here..

 

[Syed1]

This was always expected.. we can never demolish sides

 

[Hasan123]

Shafiq will be able to put the bad balls away from pacers. Younis can't even do that

 

[Muhammad10]

2oo runs lead minimum please

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With Pakistani batsmen we always have to look at minimums. Our bowlers will only ever get scraps to defend.

To make matters worse, the same pathetic batsmen aren't even capable of holding onto the catches that come their way.