International Cricket 2016

[JonM]

Great performance, was thinking that taking 20 wickets was going to be a tall order, so 4 in the last hour was superb.

 

18 000 capacity at Old Trafford, not sold out on Friday or Saturday.

[Futtocks]

Having a first Test at Lords is, oddly, quite good for England. They underwhelm so often there (especially in the Ashes), it fires them up for the rest of the series, where the pitches are more likely to suit their bowling attack.

[Richard de la Riviere]

Strange decision not to enforce the follow on today. Hope the weather forecast is good for Monday and Tuesday!

[GURNER]

Strange decision not to enforce the follow on today. Hope the weather forecast is good for Monday and Tuesday!

thought that myself. maybe ewcb fed up giving money back on 4th day tickets

[Ramite]

Down to Anderson and Stokes , it's the first game back from injury for both. I'm not sure with the rain they would have been over bowled anyway. But with the amount of cricket England play , they will be cautious.

[getdownmonkeyman]

Strange decision not to enforce the follow on today. Hope the weather forecast is good for Monday and Tuesday!

 

 

Still can't work that one out.

[GeordieSaint]

Still can't work that one out.

 

Ramite has just explained it above - to give the bowlers a bit of rest and recuperation time before trying to bowl the Pakistanis out again; I'd have done exactly the same in Cook's shoes.

[Tiny Tim]

Off to a good start this morning. England add a decent hatfull of runs and now Pakistan 2 wickets down chasing 518 more runs

[Futtocks]

As long as the weather is favourable.

 

Looks like the ground is filling up a bit, after a sparse morning session.

[Tiny Tim]

4 wickets down but Stokes off injured.

[Futtocks]

186 for 7 now. Pakistan will be lucky to see day 5.

[Ramite]

Now 8 down

[Futtocks]

Quite impressed with Amir's diligent resistance, in what is a hopeless cause (unless it rains solidly for the next 24 hours).

[Tiny Tim]

Game over, win by 330 runs.

[JonM]

Third test is shaping up nicely, England need to still be batting at the end of today.

 

Potentially deciding game in a closely fought series, lovely sunny Saturday, game evenly poised and only 14 000 tickets sold (and fewer than that in the ground by the looks of it.)

[tim2]

Pakistan crumbled, as they often do, under some good pressure bowling from England.

 

Nice to see Australia getting their butts kicked by Sri Lanka too, although it adds to the current trend of teams winning at home. Teams fly in and have no preparation time on surfaces that are different to the ones they have learned on and only very experienced players or great players seem to be able to handle this.

[GURNER]

Good win for England to get 10 wickets in less than a day. Wicket must have helped on day 5. Nonetheless, a good victory

[getdownmonkeyman]

Fully expected this to be a draw. Amazed England won this.

[JonM]

The 2nd WI v India test in Jamaica a few days ago was an interesting one. WI were 48/4 in their 2nd innnings at lunch on day 4, still more than 300 behind India. Fortunately for them, the rest of day 4 was lost to rain, but their middle order then managed to bat through the whole of the final day, finishing on 388/6, to get the draw, with off-spinner Roston Chase on 137 not out (he also took 5 wickets in India's innings.) India 1-0 up in the series.

[Robin Evans]

It seems a bit of an oddity for a test to go to the final session on day 5 these days.

This latest test v pakistan was most intriguing with all three results possible at the begining of day 5.

[tim2]

It seems a bit of an oddity for a test to go to the final session on day 5 these days.

This latest test v pakistan was most intriguing with all three results possible at the begining of day 5.

 

Good news for the ECB and Warwickshire CC that's for sure.

 

Bonuses all round for the ground staff!