Got to be a pitch investigation surely? This isn't just a road it's a motorway. The likes of Shaheen and Naseem Shah are never going to develop on pitches this flat.
Bravo Joe Root and Harry Brook 👏🏻 For the highest every partnership for England of 414 and still going.
Despite the pitch and Pakistan's main spinner missing because of illness from this match, to play so long in this heat and keep your concentration is amazing.
At what point do you think sod the win, let one of these two go for Lara's record? 300, 350?
Wonder if there's also an argument for knackering them out with 3 days in the field/bowling so they are fucked for the next test which only starts Tuesday. Arguably with the pitch what it is it's touch and go we'd even bowl them out even if we declared right now
Got to be a pitch investigation surely? This isn't just a road it's a motorway. The likes of Shaheen and Naseem Shah are never going to develop on pitches this flat.
It's such a bad advert for Test cricket!
Bad advert for boys from Pakistan to be bowlers ! Let's wait and see how a deflated Pakistani side bat in their 2th innings; It will seem like a different pitch
As an aside, who’s in charge of the on screen scoreboard on sky? It’s adding runs and wickets about 2 minutes behind the action.
it’ll be someone local. It really wound me up early in this innings how rarely it showed the Pakistan total/runs difference, seems to have sorted that now
As an aside, who’s in charge of the on screen scoreboard on sky? It’s adding runs and wickets about 2 minutes behind the action.
it’ll be someone local. It really wound me up early in this innings how rarely it showed the Pakistan total/runs difference, seems to have sorted that now
Gower said he was working for Trans Sport over there rather than Sky, so I the commentary, pics etc are all just doubled up from them.
Got to be a pitch investigation surely? This isn't just a road it's a motorway. The likes of Shaheen and Naseem Shah are never going to develop on pitches this flat.
It's such a bad advert for Test cricket!
Bad advert for boys from Pakistan to be bowlers ! Let's wait and see how a deflated Pakistani side bat in the 4th innings; It will seem like a different pitch
Brook and Smith now going up to top gear.
729/4
I know we've scored a lot but I'm not sure out innings counts as 2.
There've been some bad dropped catches, but can’t fault that attempt at a catch on the boundary. Great effort and unlucky to slip over. Smith getting the breaks right now.
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For the highest every partnership for England of 414 and still going.
Despite the pitch and Pakistan's main spinner missing because of illness from this match, to play so long in this heat and keep your concentration is amazing.
5 bowlers gone for 100+ runs
Bad advert for boys from Pakistan to be bowlers !
Let's wait and see how a deflated Pakistani side bat in their 2th innings; It will seem like a different pitch
Brook and Smith now going up to top gear.
729/4
Demoralising.
You don't get many chances like this to aim for the records.