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[The Dark Knight]

Pakistan 7/173 from 71 overs
Abid Ali 60 (111)
Babar Azam 47 (127)
Anderson 3/48 from 24 overs

[The Dark Knight]

Eng v Pak, start to day three delayed by rain.
Pakistan currently 9/223
Rizwan 60*
Anderson 3/48 from 24 overs
Broad 3/56 from 25 overs
Curran 1/44 from 18
Woakes 1/55 from 19
86 overs bowled by England and Dom Bess has not bowled a single delivery.

[locky801]

and hours later still raining

[The Dark Knight]

Play started on day four in Southampton but it's raining again.
Pakistan 236
Rizwan 72
Broad 4/56

England 1/7 from 5 overs
Afridi 1/5

The ball was doing plenty in the air and off the seam at the end of Pakistans innings and the start of Englands before the rain came. Afridi was hooping it.

[jackpot jim]

Why the F**k do they even bother scheduling Test matches in England at some of these places? Has rained for the 1st 4 days of the Test and rain is forecast for the next 7 days straight !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jim05]

Why the F**k do they even bother scheduling Test matches in England at some of these places? Has rained for the 1st 4 days of the Test and rain is forecast for the next 7 days straight !!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s summer over there, not much you can do about it

[The Dark Knight]

Why the F**k do they even bother scheduling Test matches in England at some of these places? Has rained for the 1st 4 days of the Test and rain is forecast for the next 7 days straight !!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s summer over there, not much you can do about it

Exactly right Jim.
The match ended in an inevitable draw, there was some play on day 5 with 38.1 overs bowled reaching the final hour of the days play. Azhar Ali bowled the last delivery of the match before Joe Root declared on 4/110 then both captains shook hands on a draw. Crawley top scored with 53 from 138 and Sibley made 32 from 155. Abbas took 2/28.

This match was the ninth shortest test match played in England by balls bowled. 807 deliveries, 134.3 overs were bowled in the match.

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[locky801]

Why the F**k do they even bother scheduling Test matches in England at some of these places? Has rained for the 1st 4 days of the Test and rain is forecast for the next 7 days straight !!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s summer over there, not much you can do about it

Exactly right Jim.
The match ended in an inevitable draw, there was some play on day 5 with 38.1 overs bowled reaching the final hour of the days play. Azhar Ali bowled the last delivery of the match before Joe Root declared on 4/110 then both captains shook hands on a draw. Crawley top scored with 53 from 138 and Sibley made 32 from 155. Abbas took 2/28.

This match was the ninth shortest test match played in England by balls bowled. 807 deliveries, 134.3 overs were bowled in the match.

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Why declare cant see the point

[jackpot jim]

Why the F**k do they even bother scheduling Test matches in England at some of these places? Has rained for the 1st 4 days of the Test and rain is forecast for the next 7 days straight !!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s summer over there, not much you can do about it

Exactly right Jim.
The match ended in an inevitable draw, there was some play on day 5 with 38.1 overs bowled reaching the final hour of the days play. Azhar Ali bowled the last delivery of the match before Joe Root declared on 4/110 then both captains shook hands on a draw. Crawley top scored with 53 from 138 and Sibley made 32 from 155. Abbas took 2/28.

This match was the ninth shortest test match played in England by balls bowled. 807 deliveries, 134.3 overs were bowled in the match.

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Why declare cant see the point

Maybe to save 10 minutes?
If the rule is you cant call the match off until 1 hour to go, if the team batting declares with 1 hr 10 mins to go, allowing for 10 minute changeover the game can then be called immediately ??
I'm not real sure, just a theory

[Lightning McQueen]

Why the F**k do they even bother scheduling Test matches in England at some of these places? Has rained for the 1st 4 days of the Test and rain is forecast for the next 7 days straight !!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s summer over there, not much you can do about it

Exactly right Jim.
The match ended in an inevitable draw, there was some play on day 5 with 38.1 overs bowled reaching the final hour of the days play. Azhar Ali bowled the last delivery of the match before Joe Root declared on 4/110 then both captains shook hands on a draw. Crawley top scored with 53 from 138 and Sibley made 32 from 155. Abbas took 2/28.

This match was the ninth shortest test match played in England by balls bowled. 807 deliveries, 134.3 overs were bowled in the match.

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Why declare cant see the point

Have you ever captained?

[The Dark Knight]

England v Pakistan, third test at The Rose Bowl in Southampton.
Joe Root won the toss and England are batting first, they are currently 3/114.
Root just out for 29.
Crawley 57* (101)

Pakistan have an unchanged team for this match while England have one change as per their fast bowler revolving door policy with Archer in for Curran.

[The Dark Knight]

England v Pakistan, stumps day one.
Eng 4/332 (from 90 overs, a full day's play!)
Crawley 171*
Buttler 87*
Crawley and Buttler have put on 205 for the fifth wicket.

[batmanbegins]

Wonderful knock by Crawley. Looks a real talent, has every shot and plays the pull beautifully which should hold in good stead in Australia. Dare I say we may have finally found a number 3 batsmen for the first time since Trott.

[Jim05]

Buttler making runs shows how woeful the Pakistan attack is.

[DoublebluTiger]

Crawley seems to be a decent prospect. Looks to score but not stupid or reckless in his method. I was impressed in the last test how he coped with Abbas on a tricky wicket, trying to disrupt his length. He's cashed in too getting a big ton, a double ton on the horizon in this test. Will be interesting to see how he goes in Australian conditions.

[The Dark Knight]

Wonderful knock by Crawley. Looks a real talent, has every shot and plays the pull beautifully which should hold in good stead in Australia. Dare I say we may have finally found a number 3 batsmen for the first time since Trott.

Crawley seems to be a decent prospect. Looks to score but not stupid or reckless in his method. I was impressed in the last test how he coped with Abbas on a tricky wicket, trying to disrupt his length. He's cashed in too getting a big ton, a double ton on the horizon in this test. Will be interesting to see how he goes in Australian conditions.

Lunch day two, Crawley 186 not out at the moment, really cashing in and putting England in an excellent position at 4/373.
Agreed with your comments lads in that he looks to be a real good prospect for England and looks to be in complete control of his game at just 22 years old, I'm also looking forward to see how him and also Ollie Pope go in Australia. They both look to be the main pillars of England's future batting order.
Any cricket fan knows England have really struggled to find a decent and reliable number three since Trott retired and Crawley looks to be that prospect.
I think he's been stiff to miss out when England have looked to play the five bowlers with Buttler at six but now he's made the most of replacing Stokes.
Buttler is currently 113*, his second test match century. He is now the leading run scorer for England in the six test matches of this English summer.

[The Dark Knight]

England v Pakistan, stumps day two and a very dominant performance from the Poms so far.
England 8/583 declared. 154.4 overs, run rate of 3.76.
Crawley 267 (393)
Buttler 152 (331)
The Pakistani bowlers have been ground into the dirt.
Yasir 39 overs, 2/173
Afridi 33.4 overs, 2/121
Abbas 33 overs, 0/82
Naseem 27 overs, 1/109

Pakistan in response are 3/24
Anderson 3/13 (Now has 596 test wickets)

Crawley and Buttler put on 359 for the fifth wicket, the equal forth highest fifth wicket partnership in test cricket.
Crawley's 267 is the second highest maiden test century for England in test match cricket.

[mal]

I had thought Root was the best batsman for EG going back about 2 years ago
Then I thought Stokes was better than Root
Ive been thinking Pope might be even better than Root and Stokes
Then I saw the innings of Crawley who might be better than Root Stokes and Pope
Now if Butler scores another ton ....

What it means is that EG might just have a very good 3-4-5-6-7 combination when Stokes is back
3 Crawley
4 Root
5 Stokes
6 Pope
7 Butler

That line up will be great to watch

They have a plethora of fast bowlers , Jimmy Anderson is still bowling well, whadda champ he is

What they need for some possible world dominance is
1 good spin bowler to support the quicks
Burns and Sibley to perform well as openers

EG 8/583
PA 3/24

If no rain, I expect
PA all out for 180 by tea time and follow on
Then be 2/70 at stumps

If no rain this match im tipping will end on day 4

[The Dark Knight]

Pakistan currently 4/38, trail by 545. Play back on after a short rain delay a little earlier.
Anderson has 4/18 (597 wickets).

[The Dark Knight]

England v Pakistan, third test, stumps day three.
Pakistan 273
Azhar Ali 141* (Ali's 17 test century, he also became the fifth Pakistani to score 6000 test runs in his innings)
Rizwan 53
Anderson 5/56 from 23 overs (Jimmy's 29th test match five wicket haul, now equal with Glenn McGrath).

Joe Root enforced the follow on late yesterday and Pakistan will start their second innings on day four 310 runs behind.