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@lardiman

The PCB has worked with the groundsman to produce pitches they think gives their struggling team the best chance of a result.

The beauty of Test cricket played over a full 5 days with no weather interruptions is that the best side invariably has the time to come out on top.

As for the low attendances, Multan is the agricultural centre of the country. The locals will be out working all day.

For all it’s current travails, Pakistan is a still a great cricketing country, and I’d much rather watch them back playing their home tests at home, rather than in the UAE, as they were forced to for years.

 

According to Michael Atherton on Sky just now, they are planning to use the same pitch tomorrow as in the First Test

 

Different wicket. If the groundsman is worth his salt it'll be a spinners' wicket.

 

Same wicket. Bizarrely, they have filled the cracks in at one end with what the commentators have described as putty. It is already breaking up & turning sideways

 

Very sad to read that Sir Chris Hoy is terminally ill with Stage 4 cancer. The poor man is only 48 years of age.

 

Very sad , you’d think as a healthy top athlete he would of swerved this awful disease

 

Trouble is it doesn’t matter how fit you are it can get you. I have had two different cancers at different times, but have made a 100 per cent recovery from both as they were found early enough.

 

What a dreadful performance in Pakistan.

Heading for a series defeat, against the most out of form side in the World.

Stokes is no longer a good enough player to be skipper, and as for Crawley & Pope …

 

Crawley and Pope have been a major disappointment.

 

Joe Marler's tweet that The Haka should be binned is an example of how social media gets things blown up out of all proportion. If he'd said it in conversation no-one would have turned a hair but now it's big news. Even giving a "like" to something can get you in trouble years later, because there are so many amateur sleuths around. I have no objection to the Haka, England could do some Morris Dancing, Scotland could do a Highland Fling before games. That would provide some entertainment.

 

You know the rules - you can’t mock any nationality these days … apart from the English.

 

Blimey.
The Haka is a bit of colour and entertainment. A nice touch to add to a sporting occasion.
Any team facing it should be proud. It shows respect to a worthy opponent.

How can anybody get upset about it? Surely life is too short.

 

I have always enjoyed watching the Haka. It is part of New Zealand's heritage. Now the thought of 6 feet 5 rugby players Morris dancing would be a spectacle I could do without.

 

The Haka is a nonsense. Just play the game and stop messing around

 

I’ve seen NZ do the Haka 3 times and the stadium goes from deathly silence to an eruption. Wonderful to watch.

 

It is pure drama and I love a bit of drama.

 

Anybody think Tyson Fury has a chance of winning the re-match with Usyk?
Not me.

Can't say I'm overly bothered either way, but the overblown circus surrounding these fights is annoying in my view.
Hopefully Usyk will punch Fury's lights out, so we won't have to put up with FURY v USYK III

Another "sport" where the circus has gone overboard in my opinion is Darts.
All the fanfares, crowd noise, silly shirts etc.
Once it was natural and generated by the fans. Now it looks forced and contrived to me. A bit like all the fanfare and nonsense surrounding Big American sports events. Rather tiresome.

 

Oh dear, that is awful. No age.

 

Boxing is barbaric, but I'd love to put Eddie Hearn on the floor.

 

You couldn’t even reach his balls.