England v Pakistan, 1st Test, Lord’s – live chat and discussion.
The first Test at Lord’s (Cricinfo scorecard). Leave your thoughts and comments of the opening day’s play below.
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Morning all. Lovely day for a bit of cricket. The 6-million dollar question of the day is, are England going to fly or fall?
Catch you later.
Just so you can laugh at me afterwards…
Close of play scores…
Thursday: Pakistan 320, England 10-1
Friday: Pakistan 320 and 40-0, England 260
Saturday (thunderstorms): Pakistan 320 and 180-4, England 260
Sunday (more storms): Pakistan 320 and 310-7, England 260
Monday: Pakistan 320 and 310-7d, England 260 and 160
Asides from Flintoff, and with Jones and Vaughan not a chance) who is not playing in this match for England that is likely to tour Australia in November?
Trescothick?
Stu: Trescothick is playing. Giles can be a likely tour candidate, although getting into playing XI may be difficult for him, especially since Vaughan isn’t around.
Jones is still making noises about his chances, although I don’t think its likely to happen.
Innocent: Eng win toss and bat…you are successful in giving laughing material
Pak is also missing Yunis Khan…as if the known injury list wasn’t enough, they spring a last minute surprise
What about Ali Cook then? If we have any more injury problems, he might be in the Oz squad.
What about Cook, Wraye? He’s playing..and a regular fixture, I would think?
Just as I settle down to watch the cricket at my parents’ house… sky goes on the blink.
Still, at least there hasn’t been a wicket yet (touch wood, fingers crossed, sign of the cross)…
…and there it is. Should’ve kept quiet.
bugger, missed Cook on the list. Noooo! Strauss is LBW.
Yeh – I read the commentary on CricInfo that had him named late in the squad and thought he mightn’t be in.
I think – you add back Flintoff and you have a side completely capable of retaining the Ashes – not as many are suggesting, a push over by any means…
d’you really think so, Stu? Three down before lunch is grim stuff. I understand where England have been coming from over the past 2 years, by pushing up the run rate and putting on the pressure. But, they seem to have lost the knack, and now just seem incapable of holding firm. I wouldn’t mind a few hours of boring, old-fashioned Test cricket if it meant the batsmen had dug in to form a strong partnership. Get the runs slower if necessary, no daft shots, but get them runs, boys!
Pakistan’s bowling performance [at least in the first 1.5 hours today] is typical of subcontinental teams at Lord’s. Try too much, get affected by the slope … and England off to a flier. England’ll get near 350 for sure.
We just might get a good score too if Pakistan carry on dropping catches.
A sure sign that the action is slowing down a bit, I notice Will has time away from the commentary, to write to the Guardian OBO. What about us loyal fans then,Will?
Hmmm….with both sides short of key bowlers this was always going to be a batathon-until-Kaneria-gets-used-to-weather series. But make no mistake – there are going to be thrills on the way, and I expect this to be a closely contested series.
Right on, Angshuman. For us, every batting day meany extra recovery time for the Hoggy. We need a good bowling atack after we have put up 500 or more
With the benefit of hindsight Wraye, yeh – I still think so . England will only take the next step, which I think is to sustain their success of last year, if they’re willing to stick to the game plan and the tactics that Vaughan instilled in them. Sadly, it may be in his absence but they have to ride out he times when it doesn’t work so well and, to use a golfing term, “trust their swings”. This side still has the “good bones” of a year ago, and I am beginning to think this series against Pakistan will catapult them towards another big Ashes series.
anyone think sajid mahmood should be playing? if so, who would be replace?