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England vs Pakistan | 1st Test | Lord's, London | May 24-28, 2018 | Day 1 | Match Thread

Send1983 said:
250 is a good score on this wicket. Hopefully pitch behave same for next few days. Swinging a lot. Pak are lucky to be bowling first on this wicket.
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How are we lucky when England won the toss and chose to bat first? Indians don't spare an opportunity to cry.
 
Send1983 said:
250 is a good score on this wicket. Hopefully pitch behave same for next few days. Swinging a lot. Pak are lucky to be bowling first on this wicket.
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yup everything is luck and a fluke when Pakistan are involved..thanks for your insight.
 
Syed1 said:
How are we lucky when England won the toss and chose to bat first? Indians don't spare an opportunity to cry.
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When we will Inshallah win this, we both know this will eventually be termed as a fluke by the usual culprits!
 
The bowling minus Shadab has been good, and England have had their moments too.

Cook’s defiance has put England ahead by a nose here, but this partnership can take the game away from Pakistan.

300 is more than enough for our lineup.
 
Isa Guha haters: As someone helpfully reminded us, at least she's no Rameez. I'd add to that and say she's better than almost all Asian commentators.

She isn't a great choice but neither are 99% of commentators across international and domestic cricket.

Unfair to pick on a woman, particularly because she isn't embarrassing while most Asian/Aussie/Kiwi etc commentators are.
 
If Stokes and Buttler survive for some time then they will take away the game from Pakistan.
 
The Pakistan bowling and fielding has been very impressive.

England would take 260 right now.
 
To be in the game we gotta get them out for under 250. I can see their bowling causing our batsmen a lot of problems. Take Shaddy out of the attack and use the different variations of the quicks to unsettle them.

There's a bit of an ODI feel with these two out here, maybe bowl a bit more variations - slowerballs, bouncers, short balls - and see how they react.
 
Lefthanded said:
Isa Guha haters: As someone helpfully reminded us, at least she's no Rameez. I'd add to that and say she's better than almost all Asian commentators.

She isn't a great choice but neither are 99% of commentators across international and domestic cricket.

Unfair to pick on a woman, particularly because she isn't embarrassing while most Asian/Aussie/Kiwi etc commentators are.
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She is mediocre and doesn't know how to time her lame jokes, neither does she have an authoritative voice so it seems as if someone who doesn't know what she's doing is commentating in an international game.

I would literally rather have Ramiz/Bishop/Frazeer/holding even Shane Warne or Micheal slater even!!! She is bad
 
Lefthanded said:
Isa Guha haters: As someone helpfully reminded us, at least she's no Rameez. I'd add to that and say she's better than almost all Asian commentators.

She isn't a great choice but neither are 99% of commentators across international and domestic cricket.

Unfair to pick on a woman, particularly because she isn't embarrassing while most Asian/Aussie/Kiwi etc commentators are.
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She's a rubbish commie, Ramiz isn't the gold standard of commentary but he's still a bit better than her
 
After all that nonsense spoken about how Abbas is a trundler who'll be smashed - it turns out he's been arguably the pick of our bowlers today.
 
Similar wicket to one he got against Ireland...

Good review!

Wrap it up within the hour
 
Saifi may not be batting upto his own standard, or dropping catches quite often, or having Umar Akmal-esque fitness, but you cannot deny the fact that he is a spectacular captain.
 
Markhor said:
After all that nonsense spoken about how Abbas is a trundler who'll be smashed - it turns out he's been arguably the pick of our bowlers today.
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who said this nonsense..we need to name and shame these so called pp experts..
 
Syed1 said:
Saifi may not be batting upto his own standard, or dropping catches quite often, or having Umar Akmal-esque fitness, but you cannot deny the fact that he is a spectacular captain.
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yup always supported him..more foot in backsides for his detractors..
 
Intelligent decision from Sarfraz;

Sarfraz is very intelligent if you think about it; he is not a T20 player but not only he force his inclusion in T20 team, he even become captain of T20 team
 
Syed1 said:
Saifi may not be batting upto his own standard, or dropping catches quite often, or having Umar Akmal-esque fitness, but you cannot deny the fact that he is a spectacular captain.
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that's too much to understand for PP crowd.. they are after Sarfi like there is no tomorrow:stokes
 
Okayyyy this is getting proper pants now.

Need to bowl out of our skins to stay in this one.
 
The bowling has been good but not 168-7 good.

England should be disappointed with their effort, 300+ was on the cards here. Some very rash shots.
 
Great effort by the lads. Shows why we deserve more than 2 Tests vs England. Pakistan in England always produces Great Cricket unlike our Eastern Neighbours who will embarrass themselves again
 
Someone predicted that if Butler and Stokes get in England will get to 350 by end of day :)))
 
HeHe!

Hasan Ali.

In the words of Bill Larry, “what a bowler. What a beautiful bower”.
 
Lefthanded said:
Isa Guha haters: As someone helpfully reminded us, at least she's no Rameez. I'd add to that and say she's better than almost all Asian commentators.

She isn't a great choice but neither are 99% of commentators across international and domestic cricket.

Unfair to pick on a woman, particularly because she isn't embarrassing while most Asian/Aussie/Kiwi etc commentators are.
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She's been fine. She's better than most tbh and she's only going to get better as she gets more experience.

ahmedwaqas92 said:
She is mediocre and doesn't know how to time her lame jokes, neither does she have an authoritative voice so it seems as if someone who doesn't know what she's doing is commentating in an international game.

I would literally rather have Ramiz/Bishop/Frazeer/holding even Shane Warne or Micheal slater even!!! She is bad
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Absolute nonsense.

She's been better than everyone you named bar Bishop, and maybe Holding.

Adijazz1706 said:
She's a rubbish commie, Ramiz isn't the gold standard of commentary but he's still a bit better than her
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England should look to get to 250 from here.

Does England have mental block against Pakistan in tests?
 
isa guha is a good commentator imho
much better than the ghastly ian botham, for instance
 
30+ play and misses today in just ~50 overs. Decisions not going in our favor but despite all the unluck still we are doing good.
 
Its all a fluke. England is gift wrapping wickets to Pakistan. Pakistan is not bowling this good etc etc etc
 
Markhor said:
After all that nonsense spoken about how Abbas is a trundler who'll be smashed - it turns out he's been arguably the pick of our bowlers today.
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His first-class record is amazing. My simple question is why was he not selected earlier on in his career? he's 28 and probably has bout 4 years in him left at the highest level yet people like Rahat Ali and Tanvir Ahmed have been selected before him?
 
Adil_94 said:
Great effort by the lads. Shows why we deserve more than 2 Tests vs England. Pakistan in England always produces Great Cricket unlike our Eastern Neighbours who will embarrass themselves again
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We had a 4 Test series two years ago, and we'll back in England in the summer of 2020 for a 3 Test series.

Infact we're also here for a 5 match ODI series before the World Cup so our lads will be claiming citizenship here at this rate :))
 
Ab Fan said:
England should look to get to 250 from here.

Does England have mental block against Pakistan in tests?
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You have to be a joke of a team to have a mental block against Pakistan of all teams, but it does appear to be the case.
 
Some people are burning that Pakistan are doing well and not getting "exposed"
 
Ok here we needed Wahab to dismiss tail with sheer pace
 
The camera has been following the ball shining quite closely
 
Markhor said:
We had a 4 Test series two years ago, and we'll back in England in the summer of 2020 for a 3 Test series.

Infact we're also here for a 5 match ODI series before the World Cup so our lads will be claiming citizenship here at this rate :))
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Has a schedule been announced ?
 
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