England vs Pakistan | 2nd Test | Headingley, Leeds | June 1-5, 2018 | Day 1 | Match Thread

[Arham_PakFan]

Beautiful bowling by Amir

 

[Mueez]

Beautiful bowling.

 

[babajee]

Hate these flukey boundaries by Cook.

 

[MMHS]

Azhar is actually covering duel spot - 1st slip & short 3rd man; great way to increase efficiency, PAK has got one more fielder in the process.

 

[Mueez]

Unlucky.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Edged!First runs for England

 

[Lefthanded]

Took a peek at the forecast for Leeds and tomorrow looks like it'll rain through the day. Then there's showers in the afternoon on Sunday.

 

[Amirforpresident]

Jennings vs Abbas will be fun

If im not wrong Jennings had a real hard time dealing with Philander

 

[IMMY69]

With some luck we could blow this England lineup away

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Late swing for Abbas

 

[Syed1]

Abbas is a dangerous bowler yaar

 

[Darkrai]

i fell asleep around lunch and just woke up and saw the scorecard.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Jennings loving it out there.

 

[Mueez]

Nasser Hussain

 

[Syed1]

i fell asleep around lunch and just woke up and saw the scorecard.

It could have been worse, right after lunch we were 78/7 and then last three wickets had 96 run partnership

 

[Deewana Mastana]

England would do well if they don't lose more than 3 tonight.

 

[Lefthanded]

you wrote Fahim off after 1 inning? come on mate trust your players a bit. Fahim is a great prospect with both bat at 8 and #4 seamer overseas and #3 seamer in UAE with 2 spinners.

Of course not mate. The thing is I'm not writing him off at all because I never think anyone who averages 30 in FCC should be batting at 7 in Test cricket.

I hope this experiment works because at the end of the day I want Pakistan to win, but just because Inzi wasn't a first class king, doesn't mean we should pick everyone who averages 30 in FCC and give them a go.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Maiden over.

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Got the feeling England are going to bat well

 

[Plumb]

Everytime Abbas bowls I feel a wicket is coming ...

 

[dauntless]

chal paii amir dass de ajj

 

[Arham_PakFan]

3 for Jennings

 

[DeadBall]

Ball isn't doing much.

 

[mmkextreme_1]

Of course, the sun is completely out now

Feel like England will bat well

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

Like some expected, things are a bit easier for the English bat because of the sun being out.

Eng will lose wickets tomorrow morning as it will be cloudy again.

 

[the Great Khan]

Got the feeling England are going to bat well

yeah theyll tuk tuk their way to a big lead..oh well..1-1 is a scoreline I would have taken at the start of the summer!!

 

[Markhor]

Jennings playing with softer hands.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

4 more..gifted runs,these.

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

Of course, the sun is completely out now

Feel like England will bat well

It's a bit of a repeat of Lord's. It was Root there, Sarfraz here.

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Not much swing for Pak bowlers.

 

[Mueez]

Abbas going to bowl out Cook!

 

[m.shah]

Frustrating singles

 

[Zeshan547]

have a 3rd man for goodness sake, and pitch the ball up and make them play, it's do or die with the new ball,

 

[Darkrai]

Usman is another Azhar it seems. Shaddy well played, he has scored 3 or 4 fifties now.

 

[Mueez]

Jennings ko out karooo!!!!!!!

 

[Markhor]

yeah theyll tuk tuk their way to a big lead..oh well..1-1 is a scoreline I would have taken at the start of the summer!!

Regardless of the outcome of this Test (which looks like its heading England's way) - by the time we have our next series with England in 2010, they'll have not beaten us for 10 years stretching over 4 series.

 

[Mueez]

Pakistan bowling a bit short, imo.

 

[Watsupdoc]

Abbas isn’t looking threatening at all.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

Well stopped by Shadab

 

[Mueez]

Shadab what a player.
Awesome save.

 

[Markhor]

Correction to #1076 - in 2020.

Need to improve our record vs England outside London though. We haven't beaten England in a Test outside London since the Old Trafford Test in 2001.

 

[Arham_PakFan]

for Jennings

 

[GLORY OF '92]

Looks like we are flat

 

[Mueez]

Four for Jennings.

 

[Syed1]

Need a couple of wickets ASAP

 

[the Great Khan]

Botha and co will be jumping up and down with the I told you so's..urgh

 

[Syed1]

So many boundaries already

 

[Arham_PakFan]

more

 

[Mueez]

Yaar Cook, really is such an irritating player.

 

[Mueez]

Yaar Cook, really is such an irritating player.

Gets flukey runs.

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

Runs leaking here.

Need some Hasan magic.

 

[Zeshan547]

captain genius when you will have a 3rd man, jb England lead lay le ga, Sarfi now can't even captain well, what can he do???

 

[Mueez]

Ooh pretty close that was!

 

[Mamoon]

England only need 250 here.

 

[Syed1]

Glad we have some English supporters on PP

 

[Robert]

Come on England, dig in but hit the bad balls. Positive defence and positive attack.

 

[m.shah]

This match seems the copy of last match only difference is pak is on receiving side this time.

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

This match seems the copy of last match only difference is pak is on receiving side this time.

Exactly. It's a copy of Lord's.


This time it's Sarfraz.

 

[Plumb]

need to see another couple overs and hand the ball to Hasan. He may be able to get some seam movement...

 

[Mueez]

Expecting some 'generator' magic...

 

[ManFan]

Cook about to get OUT to Amir.

 

[Mamoon]

Specialist Captain’s arrogance let the team down. He thought Pakistan would get 300 and England will collapse.

 

[Watsupdoc]

Amir is beating the bat so many times but not getting the nick...

 

[m.shah]

Abass ko kya ho gaya h bhai? Looks toothless

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

Come on Saifi bring Hasan Ali on.

 

[Mamoon]

Amir gets predictable at times with his line, needs to bring the ball into the left-handers as well.

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

Abass ko kya ho gaya h bhai? Looks toothless

That's what happens when the sun is out. Happened to Anderson and Broad as well at Lord's.

 

[pakistan cricket fan]

Correction to #1076 - in 2020.

Need to improve our record vs England outside London though. We haven't beaten England in a Test outside London since the Old Trafford Test in 2001.

Pakistan was the last team that beat england at Old Trafford.

 

[Mueez]

Abass ko kya ho gaya h bhai? Looks toothless

Runs leak to nahi kar raha!
Creating pressure from one end...

 

[Watsupdoc]

Gets flukey runs.

I’d rather get flukey 70 then get an elegant 30...

 

[SarfiBabarHaris]

Abass ko kya ho gaya h bhai? Looks toothless

He is more of a seam bowler and the pitch is flat. English bowlers got swing not much seam. Thats why both captaincs wanted to bat first too as pitch is flat.

 

[Plumb]

People are jumping on the criticism bus... this ain't T20. Relax wickets 'll come 4.5 days left in the match

 

[troodon]

Pitch seems to have eased up a lot.

Pak bowlers not getting the same assistance as England got.

Good batting conditions there.

 

[Mueez]

Oooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!

 

[Syed1]

Three times it has happened already that edge bounced infront of slip... somebody ask these slippers to man up and come forward

 

[m.shah]

Edges not carrying

 

[Prince of Pakistan]

For some reason Amir bowls better in his second spell. His pace is up then as well.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Keaton is playing with very soft hands. Deliberately getting it to ground. Not a question of edges not carrying.

 

[Mamoon]

Abbas has looked dreadful today.

 

[Zeshan547]

they are playing with softer hands and not pushing at the ball, which is the right way to go on such pitches, unlike our surmas