England v Pakistan | 2nd Test | Manchester | Jul 22-26, 2016 | Day 1

[#GreenRoars]

England Squad
AN Cook*, MM Ali, JM Anderson, JM Bairstow†, JT Ball, GS Ballance, SCJ Broad, ST Finn, AD Hales, AU Rashid, JE Root, BA Stokes, JM Vince, CR Woakes

Pakistan Squad
Misbah-ul-Haq*, Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imran Khan, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Rizwan, Rahat Ali, Sami Aslam, Sarfraz Ahmed†, Shan Masood, Sohail Khan, Wahab Riaz, Yasir Shah, Younis Khan, Zulfiqar Babar

 

[Markhor]

Let Round 2 commence.

 

[Salman]

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[Kraetoz]

I think Finn and Ball have been released from the squad

 

[#GreenRoars]

Today full strength wounded England against cool and calm Pakistan.

 

[Adijazz1706]

I'm nervous already

 

[shah_1]

When is the toss?

 

[Sarfarazian92]

Does anyone know what he pitch is like? Was a picture of the pitch posted somewhere online?

 

[the Great Khan]

England will come hard at us. I expect us to be under the cosh pretty quickly here. We need to remember the lessons of the previous match, which is to grit it out. Expect us to lose wickets, but I hope our batsmen can grit it out again.

the key is to hang in there and I believe each batsman knows his role. The openers job is to see of the new ball even if it means one of them is batting slowly. The key is to protect younis and misbah for as long as they can and then let the middle order grit it out. I expect a crazy score in the first morning if we bat first. And then a rear guard action to fight back.

 

[Markhor]

Does anyone know what he pitch is like? Was a picture of the pitch posted somewhere online?

Looks a dry pitch:

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[Asim2Good]

let's hope for best and Pak team don't put themself under pressure for no reason what so ever.

I think win toss and bat?

 

[HamzaSaeen]

This looks like the type of pitch Pakistan would want to play on, spin and reverse swing will come into play
Should ideally bat 1st

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[hussain.r97]

Botham said outfield is fine but it looked a lot drier than Lords to me.

 

[1992CorneredTiger]

Yep, hopefully we win the toss and bat first...I don't think it's going to be fun batting on this pitch on day 4/5.

 

[Pete Rose]

Yep, hopefully we win the toss and bat first...I don't think it's going to be fun batting on this pitch on day 4/5.

match wont go to day 5

 

[#GreenRoars]

England won the toss and batting first, good decision.

 

[90MPH]

Cook wins a crucial toss.

Pakistan needs to get a few early wickets.

 

[Mr Consistent]

England Batting first

 

[Ellipsism]

Need Rahat and Amir to fire.

 

[#GreenRoars]

Old rule, same team.

 

[Red Devil]

Damn, would have liked to bat first here.

 

[On_the_up]

Misbah sounded quite depressed there, hope they weren't pinning all hopes on winning the toss and batting.

 

[imshally81]

Itz bowl first pitch... Good toss to loose

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[Sarfarazian92]

Looks a dry pitch:

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Would've loved to bowl last on this pitch

 

[On_the_up]

Need to hit the ground running.

Early wkts and apply pressure, no freebies.

Interesting to see how Amir fares, should be more relaxed.

 

[JibranAnsari]

Itz bowl first pitch... Good toss to loose

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How's it bowl first pitch? Not much grass and dry. Will deteriorate with time.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Amir and Rahat need to show a lot better control with the new ball then they did at lords, hopefully we can make some early inroads into the england batting so that Yasir can then run through englands middle order.

come on pakistan!

 

[JibranAnsari]

Would've loved to bowl last on this pitch

Looks like we are gonna have to bat once only.

 

[Amjid Javed]

match wont go to day 5

Pakistan should win inside 4 days here

 

[Sherlock]

No way is this match finishing in 5 days

 

[aroor]

When was the last time Misbah lost the toss?

 

[Asim2Good]

hopefully pace bowlers ll b able to control their line n length here
it was horrible start in both innings at lords (even though we got wickets in 2nd innings) there were too many loose deliveries in last match

 

[Jabo]

long batting line up for England
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[HamzaSaeen]

Bad toss to lose

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[imshally81]

Looks like we are gonna have to bat once only.

Hopefully...

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[imshally81]

Englind missed the trick here... Adil Rashid would be handy in 4th innings...

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[JibranAnsari]

Bazid khan is pretty confident that Pakistan will win.

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Wow dry pitch.

I think if we can keep England to 300 and then bat superbly to get 400 we are in here.

 

[#GreenRoars]

Need to hit the ground running.

Early wkts and apply pressure, no freebies.

Interesting to see how Amir fares, should be more relaxed.

A word un known to our pace bowlers.

 

[imshally81]

Wow dry pitch.

I think if we can keep England to 300 and then bat superbly to get 400 we are in here.

Here u go

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[yasir]

Thats bad, it's dry wicket and we loose toss [emoji20][emoji20][emoji20]

It's going to be doubly harder now. We are also not good chasers...How is weather forecast today?


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[JaDed]

England won an imp toss imo hopefully Pakistani bowlers can dent that advantage.

 

[JilaWatan]

Amir needs to be effective,

 

[aroor]

CRICINFO "Doesn't look like we'll be seeing any umbr-ella-ella-ellas in the crowd today, and it could be pretty hard werk, werk, werk, werk for the bowlers if the sun stays out"

 

[JaDed]

England is banking on Moen completely in this one.

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Good to see same bowling lineup on this pitch. Reverse swing will come in to play. Need early wickets and expose that weak middle order

 

[marlonbrowndo]

Losing the toss is a big blow in these conditions tbh

 

[JibranAnsari]

England should have played adil rashid , they have a lot of batters already.

 

[JibranAnsari]

Good to see same bowling lineup on this pitch. Reverse swing will come in to play. Need early wickets and expose that weak middle order

That will test our team , the pitch can't be any better for us.

 

[aroor]

Non stop cricket for 56 hours

 

[aroor]

Even Rashid can bat. [MENTION=57110]JibranAnsari[/MENTION]

 

[imshally81]

Even Rashid can bat. [MENTION=57110]JibranAnsari[/MENTION]

But he is not playing

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[Adijazz1706]

England won an imp toss imo hopefully Pakistani bowlers can dent that advantage.

Even Parosis are supporting us, let's go boys

 

[JaDed]

Even Parosis are supporting us, let's go boys

I would support Kenya over England

 

[mz123]

guys I am too excited, what should I do ???

 

[JaDed]

guys I am too excited, what should I do ???

Wait for Cook's 50

 

[aroor]

Other than Vince, All other English batsmen have scored a 50 or more.

 

[On_the_up]

Bit if swing for Amir first ball.

No boos either

 

[#GreenRoars]

Plenty for support to Pakistan, that's good.

 

[mz123]

a bit of swing there....

 

[On_the_up]

Edge safely for 4 next. Need a 3rd man, a lot of Cooks shots go there

 

[Inswing]

Amazing crowd

 

[IAJ]

Really hate these kind of boundaries

 

[On_the_up]

86.1 mph

 

[DHONI_FAN]

I have a feeling Vince might score big in this match.. too good a player

 

[mz123]

swing, swing, swing !!!!!

 

[#GreenRoars]

Need to take wickets with new ball.

 

[On_the_up]

Good line from Amir, swinging away from Cook, just outside off stump.

 

[MMHS]

Fantastic Test wicket. The grass colour is straw, not green.

It almost takes toss out of equation. However, it's bad for PAK to bat later, as they are a bowling team & comfortable in batting first. For England, hardly matters, but Cook would love to put 450 here.
Hope it doesn't rain.

 

[tauseef_mahmood]

four already

 

[Cricketfan no 1]

Amir is looking in rythm unlike last match

 

[On_the_up]

Another edge safe but 4

 

[#GreenRoars]

Edged and

 

[Third Man]

Amir bowling well.

 

[Inswing]

Amazing over

 

[JibranAnsari]

Oh
Good first over.

 

[marlonbrowndo]

lucky

 

[tauseef_mahmood]

another one?

 

[Strike!]

This field set.

Why no aggression Misbah?

 

[Inswing]

Ami rlooking in good rhythm