who would have thought bowling a good length would you get you wickets in england in may/june
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This is how a home test against a side like Pakistan should go.
good to see we haven't completely broken with tradition and have allowed at least one frustrating late partnership
Get home. Turn on TV. 2nd ball I see. Cook out to a ridiculous long hop that he should have hit into Leeds city centre. Woeful.
Time for a collapse?
Totally mistimed the bowl by Hasan Ali which really wasn't anything difficult. For such a great batsman, Cook really does make some silly errors!
The last four wickets put on 94 runs.
the openers haven't got big scores, but for the first time in god knows how long, you could argue that both of them have done their job
Chris O'Connor
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England might still collapse, it happens so often but that was never a 174 all out pitch, someone was almost certain to get some runs on it and the Pakistan lower order showed just how poorly the top order played and just how bad that total was.
It's still a rubbish total despite the added runs, and that's whether England collapse or not, but England are now very handily placed 68 behind, even if losing that second wicket so late in the day was a blow.
The forecast for Leeds tomorrow looks a bit unsettled and there could well be a fair bit of rain. Maybe an on-off sort of day in prospect which is always difficult, it may even be rained off.
England can't really do much about the weather but they've done well today and that was much needed.
It's still a rubbish total despite the added runs, and that's whether England collapse or not, but England are now very handily placed 68 behind, even if losing that second wicket so late in the day was a blow.
The forecast for Leeds tomorrow looks a bit unsettled and there could well be a fair bit of rain. Maybe an on-off sort of day in prospect which is always difficult, it may even be rained off.
England can't really do much about the weather but they've done well today and that was much needed.
Well played England and in particular, well bowled Stuart Broad.
Hope he shut up that Yorkshire idiot Michael Vaughan who was everywhere calling for him to be dropped.
The batting let England down at Lords so what should we do? Yeah, drop a top bowler according to 'Vaughany'. Fantastic logic.
With the position we are in, surely we can't fail to win from here against this limited Pakistan side.
Hope he shut up that Yorkshire idiot Michael Vaughan who was everywhere calling for him to be dropped.
The batting let England down at Lords so what should we do? Yeah, drop a top bowler according to 'Vaughany'. Fantastic logic.
With the position we are in, surely we can't fail to win from here against this limited Pakistan side.
Chris O'Connor
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May have to do it despite today's weather though but hopefully with the game so advanced they can do it in four days.
I wish vaughan was involved in english cricket, most forward thinking captain we have had, but didn't go to the right school to get a job after playing
Chris O'Connor
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Just as Root probably should have elected to field first at Lords, it was Safraz Ahmed who possibly made the wrong decision here.
The pitch was straw coloured and looked good for batting but the overheads looked good for swing bowling and England had in Anderson, Broad and Woakes, bowlers who could exploit it.
It was probably a brave decision to bat first against an England team whose morale and confidence has sunk to new depths previously uncharted in living memory, a bold decision to try and stamp on a bedraggled opponents neck and kill them off while they were down.
Pakistan though batted feebly and were all too often complicit in their own downfall, Broad bowled particularly well following the well publicised calls for his replacement by an ex England captain, and England took advantage of some loose Pakistani batting totally bereft of the discipline they'd shown at Lords.
England seemed to take the confidence gained from an encouraging performance in the field into their batting, and although Jennings was once again out in familiar fashion - caught at the crease to one he could have left, he'd shown enough signs of an improvement in technique, with a notably higher backlift and standing slightly further out from the crease to negate the swing, to offer some hope of better things to come.
Cook went just before the close, gloving a pull behind which was a disappointing end to a very good day after doing so much of the groundwork to build a platform to kick on from.
Rain washed this morning's play, but the game is far enough advanced already to hope four and a half days will be enough.
Let's hope the rain stays away for the rest of today as an on/off last two sessions could prove very difficult for batting.
Root the first to go, the overheads are looking ideal for bowling now
The pitch was straw coloured and looked good for batting but the overheads looked good for swing bowling and England had in Anderson, Broad and Woakes, bowlers who could exploit it.
It was probably a brave decision to bat first against an England team whose morale and confidence has sunk to new depths previously uncharted in living memory, a bold decision to try and stamp on a bedraggled opponents neck and kill them off while they were down.
Pakistan though batted feebly and were all too often complicit in their own downfall, Broad bowled particularly well following the well publicised calls for his replacement by an ex England captain, and England took advantage of some loose Pakistani batting totally bereft of the discipline they'd shown at Lords.
England seemed to take the confidence gained from an encouraging performance in the field into their batting, and although Jennings was once again out in familiar fashion - caught at the crease to one he could have left, he'd shown enough signs of an improvement in technique, with a notably higher backlift and standing slightly further out from the crease to negate the swing, to offer some hope of better things to come.
Cook went just before the close, gloving a pull behind which was a disappointing end to a very good day after doing so much of the groundwork to build a platform to kick on from.
Rain washed this morning's play, but the game is far enough advanced already to hope four and a half days will be enough.
Let's hope the rain stays away for the rest of today as an on/off last two sessions could prove very difficult for batting.
Root the first to go, the overheads are looking ideal for bowling now
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I'm probably about to put the curse on him here, but I like young Bess' technique. Not sure at all about his bowling but it looks like he can play a bit. Plays straight and looks relatively comfortable in defence.
Buzzing for Dom Bess. Clocked him not that long ago before his call up and thought he’d get a chance sooner rather than later.
However, he’s yet another English spin bowler who is developing better with the bat than the ball.
And hats off to Jos Buttler too. There may be hope for him in a test capacity yet.
However, he’s yet another English spin bowler who is developing better with the bat than the ball.
And hats off to Jos Buttler too. There may be hope for him in a test capacity yet.