England in Dubai vs Pakistan...Cricket.

[Gargamel]

hornetrider said:

8wm for Monty

Selection dilemma?

Reckon Morgan is playing "waterboy" in the next match.

[chimster]

hornetrider said:

8wm for Monty

Selection dilemma?

Nah. No brainer play 2 spinners

[DJRC]

No, Morgan will play. Batting hasnt shown that it will stand up. KP failed again, Morgan not batted properly yet so they wont go short on the batting line up.

Done deal.

[chimster]

Probably will, but I don't think they should. Top 7 should be good enough to get enough runs...

[hornetrider]

When's it kick off?

ETA: I'll answer my own question... Tuesday 6am

Edited by hornetrider on Monday 16th January 00:01

[Audi 525i]

hornetrider said:

When's it kick off?

As it's Pakistan v England, it really is a question of when and not if

[Black can man]

Looking forward to this series , c'mon England

[hornetrider]

Gargamel said:

hornetrider said:

8wm for Monty

Selection dilemma?

Reckon Morgan is playing "waterboy" in the next match.

Aggers agrees.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/16571909.s...

[yorky500]

well we have clear skies here in Dubai, if somewhat of a chilly wind blowing.

Sadly, despite only living 10mins awat from the cricket ground I am at work in Abu Dhabi - grrrrrrrrrr.

England have won the toss and will bat!

Chris Tremlett is in.

[Bongo Fury]

A poor start this morning. Three batting mistakes.

[Bongo Fury]

From bad to worse!

[hornetrider]

Ajmal bowling hand grenades!

[Bongo Fury]

We might be lucky to get to 100.

[johnfm]

A good toss o win.


Oh...

England will win this test anyway - this is just a wobble.

[Bongo Fury]

I hope our bowlers aren't as rusty as the batsmen...

[Gargamel]

Utter Village from England.

Oh dear.

[DJRC]

DJRC said:

No, Morgan will play. Batting hasnt shown that it will stand up. KP failed again, Morgan not batted properly yet so they wont go short on the batting line up.

Done deal.

And that ladies and gentlemen is why we did not go with 2 spinners and the longer batting lineup.

[chimster]

DJRC said:

DJRC said:

No, Morgan will play. Batting hasnt shown that it will stand up. KP failed again, Morgan not batted properly yet so they wont go short on the batting line up.

Done deal.

And that ladies and gentlemen is why we did not go with 2 spinners and the longer batting lineup.

Of course, but we get bitten both ways don't we. The wicket is spinner friendly so they take wickets as they have the attack to do that, and we are packed with seamers. Lose, lose in my view. I repeat if we are number one in the world and our top 8 can't get a decent score then how can we be number one. Doesn't make sense to me. However, I have to agree that out batting line up has not fired at all so far. If the top order had been getting tons in the warm up games I would like to have thought we would have given Monty a go.

[Bongo Fury]

The pitch doesn't look that bad. The batsmen haven't been picking the length.

[hornetrider]

Bongo Fury said:

The pitch doesn't look that bad. The batsmen haven't been picking the length.

True, we've not been winkled out, we've got ourselves out. Need a session from Prior and Morgan here /mockers