Pakistan v England | First Test : Day 1 | Dubai | Match Thread |

[Syed Ali Imran]

135/7.

 

[ZAK]

135/7.

 

[Sledger]

Good ball to finish though. One more before tea. 135/7.

 

[talha3]

This is England's session.

 

[yeh_cheezzz]

one more over before tea

 

[Syed Ali Imran]

last over before Tea to be bowled by GUL...

 

[Amjid Javed]

Pakistan beginning to leak to many runs here. Need to dry runs up and force a mistake. On such a surface partnerships are bound to occur at some point. Even so we cant allow england back in match here!

 

[Strike!]

Why are we persisting with Gul?

 

[IAJ]

Hope we can keep them under 200. England really have good batting down to no.9. One more wicket and things will get easier InshaAllah.

 

[Amjid Javed]

Come on Gul get a wicket before Tea!

 

[Syed Ali Imran]

single to prior, swann on strike now..

 

[iHammad]

this is crap..

 

[akheR]

Why are we persisting with Gul?

Spearhead of our bowling attack.



I'm srs.

 

[Syed Ali Imran]

Hope we can keep them under 200. England really have good batting down to no.9. One more wicket and things will get easier InshaAllah.

inshAllah!

 

[kkmix]

Rubbish captaincy here for bowling Cheema and Gul in this session ... There is no freakin assistance for fast bowlers here, and you have 3 spinnerss, use themmm.

 

[jattafridi]

why no hafeez

 

[tauseefm]

Pakistani bowling apart "AJMOL" looking bit tooth less!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would say its Ajmal's class else our curator tried his best to make bowlers suffer on this pitch

 

[iHammad]

Waqar: When he doesn't get it right, then it's not really pleasing to the eyes. )

 

[Asif321]

England going for 270

 

[Sledger]

Overpitched. Good fielding. Gul gets away with it.

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Gul perhaps needs time off from test cricket as he's struggled off late in the test arena.

What do you guys think?

 

[iHammad]

Pitched outside.

 

[Sledger]

Misbah doesn't want to review.

 

[Syed Ali Imran]

Ohhh, I guess this is gonna be a waste of a review..

 

[iHammad]

Omg, he took the review.

 

[Sledger]

But they do! lol.

 

[pakbl10]

That looked close, reviewed.

 

[Strike!]

Waste.

 

[Sledger]

Seems like a big waste.

 

[Sledger]

Ridiculous.

 

[iHammad]

What a freaking waste! Gul you suck!

 

[ads101]

ain't out

 

[yeh_cheezzz]

wasted review by Umar Gul

 

[Sledger]

That looked close, reviewed.

)

 

[Deewana Mastana]

What a stupid review

Umar Gul

 

[Syed Ali Imran]

Gul sahab, you've lost it!

 

[tauseefm]

hahahaha umar gul radars is way off today

 

[jattafridi]

review

waste

 

[Badsha]

FFS Gul

 

[down4whatever]

lmao nice review.

 

[Asif321]

waste review

 

[Kwremb]

We need to break this partnership ASAP It's slowly but surely building

 

[DOOSRA95]

misbah u r the kuptasn not the brain less sea GUL.

 

[Sledger]

Misbah was being smart and saying no way son but Gul begged for it.

 

[Strike!]

Poor passage of play here for us.

 

[malakian]

Worst review i've ever seen.

 

[Usman Chadda]

Wow Gul, just wow. Misbah should do all the thinking by himself seriously

 

[Watsupdoc]

What a waste of review

 

[Saurav]

not out

 

[down4whatever]

Pak are pulling an India and letting England back into the game. (england india test #2)

 

[Sledger]

Are Pak out of reviews?

 

[Asif321]

Umar gul doesnt know wht is LBW... forced misbah to do

 

[Syed Ali Imran]

at TEA, Day 1 - England 139/7.

 

[kkmix]

Gul Sucks sorry.

 

[tauseefm]

waqar almost said "they nude/need a wicket" lol

 

[iHammad]

Partnership 45, and we are dead

 

[Sledger]

Somewhat even session, but Pakistan still won it.

139/7, Pakistan well on top.

 

[Kwremb]

Where's Haffeez? Professor's the ideal partnership breaker.

 

[jattafridi]

cameraman bhee pareyshaan hai

 

[Batman]

England | 1st Innings | 7/139 | 55 Overs | RR 2.53

Tea - Day 1

 

[Asif321]

Are Pak out of reviews?

yepppppppp

 

[akheR]

Gul perhaps needs time off from test cricket as he's struggled off late in the test arena.

What do you guys think?

Never seen him as a Test bowler, he lacks the cricketing brain for it, despite his skills with the new ball.

If he's in the Test squad, it's thanks to his exploits in ODI-Tests (and even there nowadays...) but far from being the spearhead of our bowling attack, as he wishes.

 

[PakPosheeda]

Wow.

Gul has to go. Cant even get tailenders out and now the useless bowler wants retarded reviews taken.

Seriously the time has come for this mediocrity to end. Wahab, Junaid and Talha are all better than him.

 

[pakbl10]

Not a terrible session for us.

 

[malakian]

Pakistan still miles on top, so disappointed with out top order.

 

[jattafridi]

i predict 220 for 7

 

[Kwremb]

Prior always scores when it matters, probably the best WK/bat in the game now

 

[iHammad]

England 87/2 in that session, terrible for us.

 

[Kwremb]

Need to attack with Ajmal, Hafeez & Rehman after Tea and bundle them out under 200.

 

[slblack]

So why is Hafeez/Ajmal not bowling?

Its like they want to give england some runs to play with rather than finish them off as fast as possible.

 

[down4whatever]

Sooo....does Gul seriously not know the rules of LBW?

 

[Robert]

Our #7 and #9 are showing that this surface can be batted on.

Pakistan can just tuk tuk all day tomorrow and set up a win.

 

[khalil1986]

Worst review ever, anyone would know its not out and especially Gul the retard as he is hardly moving the ball.

 

[malakian]

Our #7 and #9 are showing that this surface can be batted on.

Pakistan can just tuk tuk all day tomorrow and set up a win.

Aye, missed a trick not playing Montster, need two spinners for this track, looks completely dead.

 

[iHammad]

Umar Gul trending worldwide on Twitter.

 

[slblack]

Need to attack with Ajmal, Hafeez & Rehman after Tea and bundle them out under 200.

Couldve sent them back after 150 if we showed a bit of killer instinct.

Gul has infinitely disappointed me. Just doesnt have the aggression anymore like Shoaib did.

Only thing worse than the sterile bowling by gul is the decision by the captin to have him on rather than the guy who gave just 3 runs in 5 overs and took a wicket or the guy who made all of their batsmen look like middle schoolers.

 

[Saqs]

So it seems the negativity and knee-jerk reactions of PPers hasn't stopped. Lol at this negativity.

 

[kkmix]

Get em all out today and tuk tuk for next 2 days and post 500. Lead of around 300 should be enough to get inning win.

 

[ninjafirstslip]

next test drop umar gul replace with junaid. He has got to get his pace up or just stay in LOI.

 

[Random Aussie]

Just logged in and saw the score.

England

Any sign of greek_scavenger or malakian?