1st T20 Pakistan v England Thread

[Duty281]

First topic message reminder :

England: 1 Pietersen, 2 Kieswetter (wk), 3 Bopara, 4 Morgan, 5 Bairstow, 6 Buttler, 7 Patel, 8 Broad (capt), 9 Swann, 10 Dernbach, 11 Finn

Pakistan: 1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Awais Zia 3 Asad Shafiq, 4 Umar Akmal (wk), 5 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Shahid Afridi, 7 Shoaib Malik, 8 Hammad Azam, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Saeed Ajmal, 11 Junaid Khan

England have won the toss and will FIELD first. Just checked the T20 Rankings and its 1 (England) v 7 (Pakistan). Come on England!

[mystiroakey]

bairstow will bring us home

[eirebilly]

Bops starting to hit the ball well

[Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler]

44 runs needed off 6 overs with 7 wickets left, youd certainly expect them to win from here but its by no means a given.

[trebellbobaggins]

Far from it. Pakistan have the runs on the board so are massive favourites.

[mystiroakey]

bop bop is the main man.

[eirebilly]

Far from it. Pakistan have the runs on the board so are massive favourites.

[trebellbobaggins]

[trebellbobaggins]

Match winning over for Pakistan,, taken the run rate away from us and a crucial wicket. Brilliant, it's back to test form for us.

[eirebilly]

Oops

[Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler]

bop bop is the main man.

[Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler]

well here we go the two saviours of english cricket in tandem...

[mystiroakey]

dont worry to much- trebell has it in hand

[mystiroakey]

yeah

[trebellbobaggins]

if in hand involves "losing it totally" then yep, i'm yer man

[Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler]

8 an over needed...hmmmm

[eirebilly]

If you have it in hand and lose it trebs.... Then you're doing something wrong

[mystiroakey]

w DE f was dAT!

its not dancing on ice butler

[trebellbobaggins]

going at a run a ball is not cutting it. it's a shame we can't hit big like they did, or indeed that they don't have an imploding bowler as we did out there.. poor Finny.

[trebellbobaggins]

oh this is terrible.

should have batted first.

if we can't control the run rate and then chase then we need to set it.

Looks bad for this years WC. Can't see us keeping it now.

[trebellbobaggins]

Buttler keeps failing.. not convincing anyone is he.

Funny , I heard Boycs saying he wasn't really up to it.. seems right.

this is going to be a wierd tour.. whitewash, whitewash and then whitewash with us with just the one in the middle.

these kids are not good enough at the mo. Gul has them on toast.

[eirebilly]

Wow, simply wow.

[mystiroakey]

we have mashed this roight up

[trebellbobaggins]

i knew it, had that sense of panic and not knowing what to do from the start.

[Liam]

Thought Gul's lbw hit outside the line tbh, plus maybe an inside edge.

[eirebilly]

Its still not over. Swann can hit a bit

[trebellbobaggins]

That's the mark of death for sure from you right there Billy!

[trebellbobaggins]

Bairstow hasn't hit any sort of form has he.

[mystiroakey]

respect to pakistain- great pressure!

but

[eirebilly]

Absolute pish... Should not have been in this position but Pakistan have bowled well

[trebellbobaggins]

just not a good enough chase was it. poorly constructed and the young lads looked out of their depth. Baistow has wasted an end really.

[trebellbobaggins]

we bowled poorly. Finn isn't ready for this format and has to go. He threw the match.

The young batsmen need replacing with some people who can hit.

apart from that it's all lovely.

[eirebilly]

Bairstow just didnt apply any pressure to the bowlers trebs

[mystiroakey]

bairstow isnt up to it today, but them not gonna blame him entirely- mogs or butler were worse

[Liam]

GAME OVER

[trebellbobaggins]

i think it'll be 3-0 to be honest. we look a poor side at the mo.

[trebellbobaggins]

yup all of them batted poorly. Pakistans making a monkey of Finn was the difference and our lads just gave away wickets and failed to hit out.

poor showing today and with pakistan it's all about confidence.. they won't be beatable now.

[eirebilly]

Oh well, there is always next match

[trebellbobaggins]

well that wa a bag of Poopie. as bad as the tests in it's own way.

we have no hope of keeping the world cup if we don't change that drastically.

[mystiroakey]

kp looked brilliant- our bowlers looked ok(bar finn)- bop bop also not bad at all. a few positives- all to play for.

pakistain deserved the win mind

[ShahenshahG]

Good lord I've been holding it in all englands batting and that urine was a welcome relief

[ShahenshahG]

Sterling work treb but this time I win the battle of the curses

[trebellbobaggins]

haha.. look who's back!

yup, good win that. we seem to swap who can be utter crap in each series. neither can just be "ok".

[ShahenshahG]

I'm surprised at finn though expected him to destroy pak. My god man - when they chose khan to do last over I was planning to hurl myself out of the window anyway gotta get back to work - see you in a bit mate

[mystiroakey]

so you stayed of the board and you won!! cheeky

[ShahenshahG]

not at all but i'm not giving my secret away @laugh: other treb will start counteracting me - then the superior team will win on the talent they posess basically england now I really do hae to get back to work else I wont finish in time. cheers

[Guest]

damn we lost

congrats pakistan

[Gregers]

Cracking t20 game, full of twists and turns

Ajmal, Hafeez, Gul and Afridi were all on form. Especially Gul who was his usual awesome self at the end.

KP was great early on for us and Bopara played a blinder. The less said about Mogs the better

[Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler]

can we now agree that Buttler isnt really that amazing after all?

ranked number one in tests and t20s but lost all 4 games so far...ranked below pak in 50 overs and won all the games.

betting scam?

[Gregers]

Buttler will come good, all the talent just needs the right guidance. Better than Bairstow who looks like the next Luke Wright - "Must Overhit Every Ball"

[Peter Seabiscuit Wheeler]

I have no doubt hes got some talent and is capable of miore than has been delivered so far, but the hype with both buttler and bairstow was that England kept losing ODIs because they werent picking these kind of players. Between them they have 113 runs in 16 international games, Its hardly awe inspiring from either, early days or not.
At least Luke Wright wasnt ginger

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