England in Dubai vs Pakistan...Cricket.

[Gargamel]

Yes that is fine, should be there fairly comfortably.

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Erudite geezer said:

hornetrider said:

87/3 and Taylor now in. Tall order to get over the line from here.

Even taller order now, with 4th wicket falling in quick succession.

You worry too much, we are 50% of the way there. Just needs some sensible batting at 4 an over and we are home and hosed.

Nothing could possibly stop us from winning this match

50 from Taylor - all over red rover

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Well lets see who comes out on top today.

Personally I think we may see a slightly different performance from Pakistan today.

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hornetrider said:

I'm saying nuffink

51/0 after Ten

Solid

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Here we go then, I am calling it

Currently we are 160/1 after 30 overs

Prediction 317/7 after 50

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Roy makes his maiden 100 in ODI's of 113 balls

Improving his average today from 29 to 35 !

Fantastic knock, and great to see one of the team really outperforming

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Not even Hornetrider can fk this score up from here

Buttler back to his blasting best 84 off 41 balls

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Buttler 46 ball 100

Smashing !

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Great Knock from Billings, that is a very impressive debut.

No idea what his keeping is like. Are we about to see proper competition for the gloves. Billings vs Buttler ve Bairstow

All the B's

I really like this Liam Plunkett, much better than the old one, is he another one who had to get away from the England "coaches" to relearn the things that made him a good bowler.

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spikeyhead said:

A comfortable win in the end

Yeah we thrashed them....

Afridi is ridiculously entertaining, Woakes actually looking like a real death bowler. Ok so not quite in Dernbach's class but still pretty good.

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Smollet said:

Never really saw what Dernbach offered. Too inconsistent for my liking. Alfridi reminds me very much of the French rugby team. You just don't know what's going to happen. Great match to watch and it swung to and fro so many times I got dizzy

Sorry to be clear, Jade Dernbach was in my opinion tried out as a death bowler on 34 too many occasions and was the worst South African cricket player ever produced.

He bowled 700 balls in T20 for 1000 runs!

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jbswagger said:

Good old England batting collapse

4 overs left - 105

Can we make 135

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Smollet said:

I think we're deliberately trying to lose this one

16 off the last over says otherwise

133 with two overs to go

150 is in range

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spikeyhead said:

154 - 8

Pakistan 10 / 2 in reply. We'll soon be into the tail

11/3 now

Woakes is looking a different player to the one I remember

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Close game and great to win 3-0 in the T20 and 3-1 in the ODI

Proof that England can win at Cricket, but only when the dead hand of Cook is lifted from the tiller.


Reading the series report in the Telegraph, I spotted this

Pakistan’s running this series has veered somewhere between “inept” and “two men getting trapped in the same section of a revolving door”