1st Test England v Pakistan, Lord's 14-18 July

[Arthur Crabtree]

Well done to Yasir on the 5-fer. On the second day at Lord's, that a fine effort.

[Dr Cricket]

All the talk of england having batting depth, but they still should be able to bat and survive good or great bowlers.
if anything it is an hindrance considering how many times it has masked the batting problem in the middle order.

[Dr Cricket]

Well done to Yasir on the 5-fer. On the second day at Lord's, that a fine effort.

Very good spinner.

[backfootpunch]

This has been a fairly pathetic attempt to be honest

Yasir isn't even spinning the ball much

[Dr Cricket]

This has been a fairly pathetic attempt to be honest

Yasir isn't even spinning the ball much

India could be carnage from this showing.

[budgetmeansbudget]

What is the point of Ali can't bat, can't bowl or field.

His omission from the team has to be nigh, considering his replacement is well overdue his proper chance.

[backfootpunch]

This has been a fairly pathetic attempt to be honest

Yasir isn't even spinning the ball much

India could be carnage from this showing.

It was always going to be

We don't have any good spinners and bar cook and root our batsmen don't play it that well either

[Dr Cricket]

Think there was some hope before they would be competitive and trying to sneak a win like last time.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Yas (The Only Way is Up) has 81 wickets. If he gets to 100 in this series, he beats Clarrie Grimmett's fastest to 100 record, post WWI. He would equal George Lohmann fo the all time record, which would be phenomenal.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/conten ... 83530.html

[Arthur Crabtree]

The Only Way is Out?

[backfootpunch]

Think there was some hope before they would be competitive and trying to sneak a win like last time.

From who?

[Arthur Crabtree]

The lead down to double figures. Looks a lot better. Get it down to 50.

A lot of wickets down today. Eleven so far.

[Aidan11]

Not seen much of this today but the scorecard tells its own story.


Pakistan are ahead at this stage.

[Arthur Crabtree]

This has been a fairly pathetic attempt to be honest

Yasir isn't even spinning the ball much

India could be carnage from this showing.

Yas is a classy bowler. India don't have a comparable leggie, and England may well play conventional spin better (they might not, but struggling to Yasir doesn't perhaps automatically mean there will be carnage in India). Obviously, against that, Kohli will be in charge of pitch prep, whereas I expect the English strips will have been prepped to give the spinner nothing.

[backfootpunch]

This has been a fairly pathetic attempt to be honest

Yasir isn't even spinning the ball much

India could be carnage from this showing.

Yas is a classy bowler. India don't have a comparable leggie, and England may well play conventional spin better (they might not, but struggling to Yasir doesn't perhaps automatically mean there will be carnage in India). Obviously, against that, Kohli will be in charge of pitch prep, whereas I expect the English strips will have been prepped to give the spinner nothing.

Amit mishra on raging turners will be much harder to play than Yasir on this flat Lords deck