Official: Pakistan Vs England 1st Test Day 4 [15/11/05]

[Raz]

Pakistan 1st innings 274
England 1st innings 418

Pakistan 125-2 (36 overs) in their 2nd innings trail England by 19 runs

Salman Butt 53*
Mohammad Sami 0*

 

[Amir]

You guys jsut keep beating AJ to the punch(creating official thread)!!! 2 days in a row! I am in shock, is the world coming to a end? I see a light!

 

[Raz]

3 days in a row actually

 

[Raz]

Latest news:

'The players and the umpires are walking down in the field, game will start in a couple of minutes. There is a bit of dew on the field and super-soakers have to do some work to keep it ready for play. '

 

[Amir_rulez]

In the name of God, the most beneficient, the most merciful.
Hope the day goes much better.

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

In the name of God, the most beneficient, the most merciful.
Hope the day goes much better.

inshallah we will continue on the gr8 start we had on day 3 batting

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

flintoff starting proceedings we will have to see him thru at start cmon guys

 

[Raz]

Play about to begin here we go

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

Wow First Ball Wicket Caught On A No Ball Phew...

 

[Amjid Javed]

Flintoff to start proceedings. sharp bouncer gets butt on glove and caught!

lucky it was a NO ball! ***!

very lucky!

 

[Amjid Javed]

salman needs to go on afta that kick in the butt!

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

my respect for billy has risen in catching that tight no ball

 

[Amjid Javed]

Flintoff again bowls back of length and butt looks shaky!

 

[Amjid Javed]

Butt off mark with single. 18 behind now

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

butt of the mark off the day

 

[Amjid Javed]

sami pokes and misses.

 

[UsmanhailsAfridi]

it was off the shoulder....phewwwwwwwwww

 

[Amir]

Why does Sami remind me of Razzaq when he is batting? Full sleeve, kinda skinny...

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

127-2 after 36 i believe

 

[Raz]

Harmison to bowl from the other end.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Harmison to start @ otha end. expect more short balls @ body or even @ the butt!

 

[badxhah]

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butt in all sort of trouble against short pitch he was outdone yesterday now again

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

harmy on now and starts with a loose delivery left alone by butt sahab

 

[Amjid Javed]

Why does Sami remind me of Razzaq when he is batting? Full sleeve, kinda skinny...

Both are same quality with bat in tests - 99% useless

 

[Amjid Javed]

another single for butt. 17 behind now

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

another single by butt

 

[badxhah]

Both are same quality with bat in tests - 99% useless

that means their in full form

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

Both are same quality with bat in tests - 99% useless

except razzler has half centuries lol

 

[Amjid Javed]

sami has a wild slog and gets 2!

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

sami goes for a hoik that is miscued into a gap at mid on for 2 runs lol

 

[Amjid Javed]

Pak 131/2

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

welll dug out yorker by sami

 

[Amjid Javed]

sami gone poking and caught behind!

pak 131/3

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

sami is caught behind altho sami seems unhappya bout the decision 131-3 now

 

[Amjid Javed]

sami is caught behind altho sami seems unhappya bout the decision 131-3 now

He just got a slight edge!

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

big man on his way to play a big innings inshallah

 

[Amir]

See Sami, that is how you bowl a "inswinger" you know that thing that comes in

 

[Amjid Javed]

Inzi come out to bat now...

 

[Amjid Javed]

See Sami, that is how you bowl a "inswinger" you know that thing that comes in

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[The_Cricket_Devil]

inzi middles it right away nice sound of wood on ball there

 

[Amir]

By the time Inzi get out we need 100 run lead minimum

 

[Amjid Javed]

Another single for butt. moves to 56...

 

[the true passionist]

good move by inzi....holding the bull by the horn....
comes in to face the first few overs of the day...

 

[Amjid Javed]

Harmison bowling full to inzi. inzi needs to be careful here!

 

[Amjid Javed]

Pak 132/3

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

after harmy's over 132-3 with inzi still on the mark

 

[Amjid Javed]

4, awful shot off back foot by butt! slashes ball thru slips!

lucky!

pak 136/3

 

[Daoud]

Harmison bowling full to inzi. inzi needs to be careful here!

He needs to make sure that he only plays at what he needs to and make sure his bat covers his pad to those inswingers that Flintoff and Harmison might try

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

edged for 4 by salman phew salman looking very very uncomfortable against flintoff

 

[Amjid Javed]

again butt looks iffy against short ball!

 

[Amjid Javed]

No ball total comes down more..

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

no ball by flintoff agn

 

[Amjid Javed]

another no ball!

 

[the true passionist]

i like the way butt is looking determined....although he needs to remember that a new day means a new start

 

[Oxy]

Morning Ritchie...morning everybody.

Time to stickify this thread!

 

[Amjid Javed]

another no ball as flintoff comes round wicket.

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

3rd no ball of the over

 

[Amjid Javed]

Single for butt

pak 140/3 ( 4 behind)

 

[Amjid Javed]

Inzi plays no shot and is hit on pad! huge shout for lbw!

***! idiot!

lucky to get away with that!

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

lbw shout turned down by bowden inzi doesnt offer shot

 

[badxhah]

not a confident start by pakistanis here

 

[Amjid Javed]

Harmison continues to prob away @ butt!

 

[Amjid Javed]

not a confident start by pakistanis here

good discapline shown by england bowlers with ball today.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Anotha single for butt.

hasan raza padded up. moyo has slight shoulder injury!

 

[badxhah]

butt being caught of a no ball
noything wasnt expected of sami anyways that didnt hamper anything
butt bi secting the 1st and 2nd slip
inzy padding up

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

over done inzi still not off the mark 141-3

 

[Amjid Javed]

quick single by butt

pak 142/3

 

[Amjid Javed]

Inzi looking good at times. still on 0 thou

 

[Amjid Javed]

intresting not much sledging in the game!

 

[Amjid Javed]

Lovely shot of his legs by inzi for 4.

pakistan lead by 1... woohoo

 

[sars_pal]

we lead by 2 runs now the real work starts go guys!

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

inzi finaly off mark and in style with 4 pak lead by 2 runs now keep it up boys

 

[Amjid Javed]

single now for inzi.

pak 147/3

 

[Amjid Javed]

we lead by 2 runs now the real work starts go guys!

Thats more than enuf runs lead we shud win test by 1 run!

 

[Raz]

We now need to multiply this lead by 100 at least.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Hoggy onto bowl now

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

hoggy on now this will be interesting

 

[Amjid Javed]

anotha single for inzi

 

[Amjid Javed]

single for butt

 

[The_Cricket_Devil]

thts amazing inzi has only been run out 3 times in tests lol commentator saying hwe doesnt get run out but others have to worry