Off Topic Best Test Ever?

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Ernie Shackleton

Ernie Shackleton

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Can't take my eyes off this one.

If England can power past Pakistan later today, bat half a session tomorrow until we secure a lead of 175, we can blast them out in a two and a half sessions on a deteriorating pitch!

This could be one of the must see sporting events of all time.

By about half twelve tomorrow afternoon you would be a ****ing idiot to be watching anything other than the finale of this hyper-tense, sports-fest.


Nobodies planning anything else, surely?
 
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Just be glad Pakistan's leggy wasn't playing - we could be scratching around to avoid an innings defeat instead of playing a role in the greatest bore draw ever.
 
This test is gashwank and not looking like improving! Needs to be a more even balance between bat and ball, for me, any test which results in a win in the last 2 sessions on the 5th day or a battling draw is the perfect test, any test where at the end of day 4 2 innings haven't been completed which we'll likely see here, bobbins, utter bobbins.

Teams, at county or international level will get criticism for tests which end quickly, and at county level teams are fined and deducted points if umpires deem a pitch to be sub standard and too in favour of bowlers, yet bugger all is said about **** pitches like this one which results in dull dull dull cricket
 
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We can all knock Cook for getting 250 (hope he gets more) on a dead pitch but at least he hung around to do it. Ali, Root etc haven't done it.

Imagine the whinging if nobody had got a decent score on that pitch.
 
Hank Scorpio said:
We can all knock Cook for getting 250 (hope he gets more) on a dead pitch but at least he hung around to do it. Ali, Root etc haven't done it.

Imagine the whinging if nobody had got a decent score on that pitch.
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No one is knocking Cook at all.

The knocking is for the ridiculous pitch.
 
Jimmy Graham's bald head said:
All about whether or not Cook can make the first English triple ton for 25 years from here...
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Sadly Cook could not. However it has been good batting practice for many of them.

England need to keep the Pakistan players out in the sun for as long as possible. The 2nd test follows on soon.

Until he was out, Cook had played/been out on the pitch for every minute of this test match.
 
The teams can do next to nothing about the pitch served up to them except play it to the best of their abilities and we are seeing that - great cricket, great game just disappointing conditions - but cricket often has a sting in the tail - as Tickles says, TWT ...
 
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