[1st Test] England v Pakistan (Old Trafford)

[ChicagoCat]

If England can survive the first 8 overs of the new ball I reckon they'll get home by tea.

 

[Salem Street South]

Oh we can do it. But it’s never a close to even money chance

Definitely not, you were closer with 6/1

 

[mackembhoy]

I didn't realise Foakes was still here, in that case he has to play (barring something exceptional from Buttler today).

Crawley, Foakes and Woody for Buttler, Archer and Anderson.

He was bringing on drinks yesterday

Odd there not playing county cricket but then if injury strikes they don't have to go through the 2 negative tests protocols

I don’t have a problem with Bess. Don’t think there’s a better option to select therefore happy to run with him.

Leach is better. He'd still be in the side if not for the illness in South Africa

 

[Salem Street South]

If England can survive the first 8 overs of the new ball I reckon they'll get home by tea.

Positivity, I like it

 

[mackembhoy]

I was harsh on him, scratch him off the list. But the reason he was dropped from the World cup squad is you can't bowl him late in an innings and it's a luxury you can rarely afford to not have a bowler bowl out because you are scared of using him. But anyway, that's a different argument, back to the test.

The reason he was dropped from the world cup squad is because the ECB changed the rules to allow Archer to play.

He'd have been opening the bowling had that not happened

 

[Salem Street South]

Another over without a wicket and we will be favourites

 

[zebediah]

Ball not doing nearly as much as in the first innings ITHICS
Reckon Shah will be on soon

 

[mikemanc]

The reason he was dropped from the world cup squad is because the ECB changed the rules to allow Archer to play.

He'd have been opening the bowling had that not happened

Opening the bowling to not in the squad? I'm not so sure about that

 

[mackembhoy]

Opening the bowling to not in the squad? I'm not so sure about that

He was opening the bowling against Pakistan before the world cup.

 

[ChicagoCat]

Another over without a wicket and we will be favourites

Dead even now according to the line I'm seeing.
Sibley doesn't look confident at all against Abbas. Burns seems fine against Afridi. I think they've both only faced the one bowler each?

 

[mackembhoy]

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[The Hesford Diet]

I like the retro 70's advertising touch. Lifebuoy - wasn't that a soap with added deodorant so you simultaneously put on and washed away anything anti-perspirant?

 

[ChicagoCat]

Naive observation? Ball doing nowt in the air or off the surface. A canter?

 

[Silly Point]

Naive observation? Ball doing nowt in the air or off the surface. A canter?

Calm before the storm (when the spin comes on)

 

[zebediah]

Worth a review, height maybe?

 

[Scotty 1978]

Ffs

 

[TopCat]

Back leg, but always bounces at OT


Umpire's Call I reckon

 

[mackembhoy]

Bairstow back playing red ball cricket this morning out for five batting at three.

 

[dixonsafc]

I’ve always agreed with Mikey Holding, never out if it’s umpires call

 

[zebediah]

At least a decent part of the ball was hitting, horrible when it says the bottom mm would have clipped.