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England v Pakistan, 3rd Test, Headingley, 1st day
By Will 2 years ago, at the start of August Leave a comment on this post
Religion has, it is said, unified Pakistan and under Bob Woolmer they are a revitalised team with a greater togetherness. This wasn’t evident at Manchester last week though, when England stamped all over them. Expect a backlash tomorrow: there’s a lot of talent and a good dose of pride in this Pakistan team, and they could easily explode back into form as quickly as it deserted them at Old Trafford.
I’ll be on ball-by-ball commentary at Cricinfo, so keep the scorecard open for my and Jenny’s descriptions and musings of the day’s events. Ought to be a cracker.
Get chatting like the cricket-crazed people that you know you are.
Tags: england, headingley, pakistan, pakistan-in-england |
19 Responses to “England v Pakistan, 3rd Test, Headingley, 1st day”
August 4th, 2006 at 12.37 am
August 4th, 2006 at 3.05 am
So Straus looking for another good test as captain, but my question to start us off… Why are we not talking about Trescothic as captain, after all he was automatic captain when Vaughan was first injured, then when he got injured, Flintoff came in - so what happened to Marcus?
August 4th, 2006 at 3.21 am
Methinks that since Trescothick went home from India due to personal problems/virus/stress, he is regarded as not wanting to be captain anymore.
August 4th, 2006 at 7.47 am
Maybe, but still I believe the idea is to let him concentrate on just getting those runs, lovely runs.
August 4th, 2006 at 8.15 am
O OH!
Will on Ball by Ball commentary duty! This could bring some laughs!
I hope you have The Corridor open while your doing it Will! A quick vist here at drinks and durring lunch and tea to catch up with our laughing at your commentary wouldnt go a stray! 
So where do you do the Commentary from? Actually at the ground or in the office watching TV? I have always wondered that! Whenever im looking at cricinfo commentary. Oh and remember to give the blog a bit of Advertising every now and then! You would get lots of Hits!
August 4th, 2006 at 9.40 am
Can’t beat the Guardian for following the cricket. What? Oh, er, sorry.
Can’t beat Cricinfo for following the cricket…
August 4th, 2006 at 11.06 am
Opps
Will has allready stuffed up the commentary on cricinfo!
0.6 Danish Kaneria to Trescothick, FOUR, super shot, driving Sami powerfully down the ground and past mid-off for four. Commanding drive from Trescothick
0.5 Danish Kaneria to Trescothick, no run, clipped off his legs to square leg
0.4 Danish Kaneria to Trescothick, no run
0.3 Mohammad Sami to Trescothick, no run
0.2 Mohammad Sami to Trescothick, no run,
0.1 Mohammad Sami to Trescothick, no run, on middle and leg
I dont think Danish Kaneria come on for the 2nd half of the first over!
August 4th, 2006 at 11.28 am
Don’t worry, Will has apologised for he mistke with Kaneria…
“Apologies for the blip earlier (Kaneria opening the bowling). All sorted now. Wrists have been slapped, etc”
August 4th, 2006 at 11.31 am
It’s a year since Edgbaston and of the 11 who took the field for England that day, only six are playing today. God, 12 months is a long time in sport.
August 4th, 2006 at 12.23 pm
Nice start, but both openers gone in two overs! Lets hope KP and Cook feel like sticking around.
August 4th, 2006 at 4.33 pm
Must disagree with the “religion uniting Pakistan” comment (but then again, I’m pedantic). I think it’s more due to the fact that there’s actually a core of senior players and a couple of youngsters being perservered with who’re being built up, rather than the constant chop and change mentality that defined Pakistani cricket for the last 10-12 years.
Nice job on the BBB - do envy you though, getting paid to sit and watch a good day of cricket (so far, with KPP’s ton) and then writing about it.
August 4th, 2006 at 4.51 pm
Pieterson has retired hurt (with cramp) on 104 (though only with a large ammount of luck!). So now Chris Read is at the crease - it’ll be interesting to see how he bats, and whether he makes runs.
August 4th, 2006 at 6.18 pm
Read out for 38. Convincing at first, less so against the new ball. Still, far higher than any score GO Jones has made in his last 10 innings!
August 4th, 2006 at 9.16 pm
Argh, this keeping debate will never go away, i know Read played a good knock but he still looks a bit out of his depth IMO, he has incredibly slow reaction times(he moves when the ball is about halfway down) and i don’t think his footwork is anything to write home about.
I just couldn’t imagine him scoring any runs against Australia, even if Shaun Tait is playing.
August 4th, 2006 at 9.27 pm
Yeah, but he played a daft shot. Nerves? His highest score in Test cricket has been 38 not out. Probably had the wobblies. Hope he learns to cope with it and PDQ, but you never know, he might end up with DNB next innings
August 4th, 2006 at 9.43 pm
Very good day for England. Shame so many players got out after getting starts - but it happens. KP was bloody lucky, yet still played very well. Bell, meanwhile, seems to be coming of age
August 4th, 2006 at 11.42 pm
Incidentally, if Chris Read gets 125 not out in the second innings (unlikely unless England skittled out quickly in the morning and Pakistan go like a train but get out by lunch on Sunday), his average will overtake Geraint Jones’s.
Read would have 362 runs in 18 innings (with 4 not outs) giving an average of 25.86 against Jones’s average of 25.79.
Basically, Read needed a total of 163 runs with one innings not out (or, of course, 188 runs if he’s out both times, so if he’s out for 150, that would do it as well (average would be 25.80)
August 5th, 2006 at 2.36 am
1. I don’t rate PC at all-seems like a kind of Fascism to me.2.Aggers was going to keep his powder dry but he seemed at unease about something.3.Sorely missed from TMS- Henry.4.Great addition-G.Gooch[and others].5.Book worth searching out ‘Rain Stops Play[Cricketing Climates] By Andrew Hignell[intro by CMJ].’Concrete Boots’ got an amazingingly lucky 38.What was Inzi up to? Anyway,one of our consultants-American[sic] came in with a giant poster of Monty today-hope he[Monty]does not get carted about.
August 5th, 2006 at 4.55 am
Bryan you are a verbal blunderbuss.
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