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mimik1uk
16-07-2016
that shot from hafeez looked like a coach giving catching practice for the slips
davethecue
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by mimik1uk:
“that shot from hafeez looked like a coach giving catching practice for the slips”

or a winning bet to punters in the know........

Struggling to find another reason to play a shot like that.....?
mimik1uk
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by davethecue:
“or a winning bet to punters in the know........

Struggling to find another reason to play a shot like that.....?”

you see players doing that in ODIs or t20 when there are no slips and trying to run it fine down the 3rd man area but not when there are 3 or 4 slips in place
davethecue
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by mimik1uk:
“you see players doing that in ODIs or t20 when there are no slips and trying to run it fine down the 3rd man area but not when there are 3 or 4 slips in place”

Exactly
Thomas007
16-07-2016
What sort of a lead would Pakistan need to become favourites? 240-250?
mavreela
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by mimik1uk:
“buttler has been in amazing form in ODI cricket against international class bowlers, buttler also wasn't dropped because of a serious technical issue but because he had "burned out" after playing as keeper in all three formats for something like 15 months solid”

Buttler averaged 61.00 in the ODI series against New Zealand before the Ashes and 88.50 in the ODI series after the Pakistan tests in the U.A.E. Impressively selective burnout that it seems to come and go depending on the form of the game.

Amazing form in limited overs cricket does not mean someone will be amazing in first class cricket, and vice versa. I am not saying he is not good enough for test cricket, just that he has not done anything to justify his place in that form of the game. But if you are happy to let the selectors' judgment of a player's potential count then it has to be that way for all players.

But it says something abut his and the England team's priorities that he played a full IPL season rather than the start of the County Championship to try and earn a test place, or even rest from a too heavy workload.

And if playing all three forms of the game is so onerous that he gets burned out from it, why would you even want him to go back to that and risk damaging his white ball form?
mimik1uk
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by mavreela:
“Buttler averaged 61.00 in the ODI series against New Zealand before the Ashes and 88.50 in the ODI series after the Pakistan tests in the U.A.E. Impressively selective burnout that it seems to come and go depending on the form of the game.

Amazing form in limited overs cricket does not mean someone will be amazing in first class cricket, and vice versa. I am not saying he is not good enough for test cricket, just that he has not done anything to justify his place in that form of the game. But if you are happy to let the selectors' judgment of a player's potential count then it has to be that way for all players.

But it says something abut his and the England team's priorities that he played a full IPL season rather than the start of the County Championship to try and earn a test place, or even rest from a too heavy workload.

And if playing all three forms of the game is so onerous that he gets burned out from it, why would you even want him to go back to that and risk damaging his white ball form?”

i've openly admitted i am uncomfortable picking someone for tests based on ODI form, but at least buttler was showing form in ODIs whereas ballance hadn't showed any form in any format.

i think the other key factor you have ignored about my preference to recall buttler is that i want bairstow to play as a specialist batsman. its going to be incredibly difficult for bairstow to maintain his current level with the bat when he is keeping as well. so my preference to have buttler in the team shouldn't be looked at in isolation.
Clarkie66
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by jake1981:
“Had a terrific day

A few things I noticed

Wahab Riaz is noticebly the quickest bowler to the naked eye

How slowly the players walk off when they are out

How about a quarter of the spectators think that the lunch interval lasts 90 minutes and the tea interval 60 minutes !

Yasir Shah seems a really fun guy. Laughing and joking with team mates in the warm up and in the field as well.”

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Thanks for that I like hearing snippets that you wouldn't necessarily pick up from the TV. I'm enjoying this test match - it's good to see a close match and a good balance between bat and ball.
Nova21
16-07-2016
Has Younus always batted with s much movement at the crease as the ball comes to him and been hopping about like in this match? I don't remember it, if so.
mimik1uk
16-07-2016
that looks like it might be missing leg

edit : just clipping so stays with the umpires call
bradybrady
16-07-2016
Umpires call

Didn't look out in real time
mimik1uk
16-07-2016
big wicket for ali as misbah goes after him and holes out right on the boundary

good catch by hales on the run

possibly a bit reckless by misbah so early in his innings
bradybrady
16-07-2016
100 followed by a duck for Misbah

Pays the price for attacking Moeen and is caught on the boundary

England back in this game bigtime
mimik1uk
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by bradybrady:
“100 followed by a duck for Misbah

Pays the price for attacking Moeen and is caught on the boundary

England back in this game bigtime”

i think we need to bowl them out for around 220 in this innings to give ourselves a chance batting last
bradybrady
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by mimik1uk:
“i think we need to bowl them out for around 220 in this innings to give ourselves a chance batting last”


Think we may get them for less than that

Wahab at number 8 would be 10 or 11 for us
mimik1uk
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by bradybrady:
“Think we may get them for less than that

Wahab at number 8 would be 10 or 11 for us”

2 good players at the crease and the keeper is no mug

just needs one good partnership to get them up to 200
mimik1uk
16-07-2016
good decision by the umpire there , faintest of inside edges
mimik1uk
16-07-2016
i know its only halfway through the summer but woakes has been a revelation this year

i was against him being picked as i thought he didn't look as if he would cut it at international level based on his previous games at this level but he really seems to have just stepped up a gear this year. wonder if he has just realised he needs to bowl a top of off-stump line more often and not bowl quite as straight as he was sometimes guilty of in the past.
mimik1uk
16-07-2016
only thing that will save him is height
bradybrady
16-07-2016
Finn and Younus are at opposite ends of the good fortune spectrum
SULLA
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by mimik1uk:
“that looks like it might be missing leg

edit : just clipping so stays with the umpires call”

On latest decision the umpire guesses wrong.
mimik1uk
16-07-2016
that partnership was starting to look ominous but game on again
Jamesp84
16-07-2016
Bairstow

Worth his place as a batsman, no question, but right now he's not up to it as a Test keeper.
makeba72
16-07-2016
Originally Posted by Jamesp84:
“Bairstow

Worth his place as a batsman, no question, but right now he's not up to it as a Test keeper.”

How many runs is that drop worth, I wonder?

I know I'm repeating myself, but I despair over this insistence on picking a batter over a keeper. Surely, surely, it's easier to teach a keeper to bat than a batter to keep?
Callum Collum
16-07-2016
10 in the match for Woakes. Well done.
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