The Cricket Thread

England only having ten fielders close to the bat for the last over of the day.

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England finish on 328....lot better than could have been. Pakistan 3-1 at close.

 

Younis Khan has beaten Don Bradman's record . Khan has been in the 90's and scored 30 consecutive centuries !

COP . Pakistan 340-6 a lead of 12 .

 

Carter makes his debut in our biggest CC game since our last visit here, in the final round of matches last season. Win it, and we'll be back in the hunt. Lose it, and D2 it will be. We've won the toss and will bat, so no having to bat against Tahir last.

 

Well no-one can complain about our RR this time. Been going a long at 4 per over all innings so far. But on the flip side, we're 2 down this time rather than 0 down.

Looks like Notts made the right call going with Wood rather than Fletcher.

 

Pakistan lead by 104 . 3 wickets left & Khan on 159..........

 

Younus Khan 202 . 38 years old . Very VERY well played !

 

Pakistan lead by 203 .

 

Pakistan all out for 542 . a lead of 214 .

 

And that's his official age. It's quite possible he's actually in his early 40s.

 

Hell of an Innings . IMHO a 2-2 series draw would be fair .

 

Awful by hales, and terrible review.

 

Good start for Hants today. 2 early wickets Notts 48/3.

 

Carter ripping through his former team!

 

Hales, Ballance and Vince aren't good enough for international cricket. Our weak batting has costed us this test series.

 

Happy to have Vince back as Hants Captain.

 

*Management quickly try to find a former Somerset bowler, a former Surrey bowler, a former Yorkshire bowler and a former Durham bowler*

 

Indeed. Although with Ervine due back fit for our next game, it'll be interesting which batter makes way for the return of both of them (a bowler, most likely Wheal, will be one to make way - three seamers, two spinners, plus Slug in sufficient bowling in terms of quantity).

 

I think Vince has to be dropped by England now. Ballance might get on the winter tours but his place is in danger too. Hales has shown a bit of something but I'm not convinced he's an opener. We're not exactly flush with batting options right now so I might be tempted to move Hales down to 5 and see how he goes there.

 

Obviously the seamers have done a great job for us so far this season, so it's entirely logical that we've persisted with them, but we've seen when Lumb was with us that he's not comfortable playing spin. Fantastic session for us even if we don't take another wicket, but if we could just nip out Lumb or Samit before lunch would be fantastic.