Super Cricket: Pakistan in England : Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:02 pm  

So, ahead of facing England in a 4 match test series and one-dayer's Pakistan are, hopefully softening the Aussies up for us before the Ashes, having already taken the T20 series 2-0 last week.

They've had a good first day at Lords with the Aussies on 229/9 at close of play, wickets have been shared around and all the bowlers did OK, with the exception of Afridi - the attack looks good on paper but it will be interesting to see how they get on tomorrow once they get into bat.

[John_D]

Re: Super Cricket: Pakistan in England : Wed Jul 14, 2010 7:06 pm  

Not very well was the answer. What was Afridi doing? When it needed a skipper with a cool head to marshal the tail and get as near to their score as possible, 30 off 15 balls wasn't all that helpful. Still, that's Afridi I suppose.

Re: Super Cricket: Pakistan in England : Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:08 am  

They should be nicely prepared to play England

Re: Super Cricket: Pakistan in England : Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:50 am  

John_D wrote:

Not very well was the answer. What was Afridi doing? When it needed a skipper with a cool head to marshal the tail and get as near to their score as possible, 30 off 15 balls wasn't all that helpful. Still, that's Afridi I suppose.

30 off 15 eh? So the captaincy has calmed him down a bit!

If only they could put the politics aside, the addition of an in-form Younis Khan and Mohammed Yousuf could make such a big difference to that side.

[John_D]

Re: Super Cricket: Pakistan in England : Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:52 pm  

Asim wrote:

30 off 15 eh? So the captaincy has calmed him down a bit!

Just putting an article together about it, but I'll use my punchline here anyway:


It wasn't a captain's knock, but it was this captain's.

[John_D]

Re: Super Cricket: Pakistan in England : Thu Jul 15, 2010 6:35 pm  

In fact, here you go

In fact, here you go

[John_D]

Re: Super Cricket: Pakistan in England : Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:36 pm  

And less than 24 hours of my searing critique of Afridi's captaincy, he's quit Tests! I have great power.

And less than 24 hours of my searing critique of Afridi's captaincy, he's quit Tests! I have great power.

Re: Super Cricket: Pakistan in England : Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:39 pm  

It's a shame they couldn't get Lords anywhere near full.

I know money is tight, but I think they'd have got a few more in charging £20 for the day ....

Re: Super Cricket: Pakistan in England : Sun Jul 18, 2010 8:26 am  

AdmiralHanson wrote:

It's a shame they couldn't get Lords anywhere near full.

I know money is tight, but I think they'd have got a few more in charging £20 for the day ....

Judging by the amount pleas in the local papers for support and emails about tickets I've been getting for the Headingley test I think there will be plenty of empty seats this week too.

As well as targetting the "Pakistani community" I think they'd have also attracted a lot more neutrals with better pricing, especially as it is unlikely to go the whole 5 days.

Re: Super Cricket: Pakistan in England : Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:07 pm  

They were advertising it through my door in Headingley aswell so i assume there is still plenty of tickets available

I'd go if i wasn't back at home for the summer.