Pakistan vs. England - 3rd ODI

[Mr Cricket]

Originally Posted by Mike

. It would have been better for Pakistan and the rapturous crowd if Afridi had not run as Yousuf would have been out instead.

I have been seeing Yousuf for plenty of years HE LOVES TO RUN OUT PEOPLE AND ALSO HE CARES MORE ABOUT HIS 50 MORE THAN SHAID AFRIDI'S WICKET

[Andy Mellon]

Originally Posted by uham

This is the best cricket ground in Pakistan I personaly think. There should be at least 2 ODI's here,but England I dont know why wants only one . Look at the crowd they are so loud and when afridi and INZI came the were yelling.

Uham - I would like to think that England would like to play more games in Karachi in the future. Even listening to the radio on the way to work this morning, the atmosphere at the ground seemed electric and it does seem unfair to starve the cricket fans of Karachi their fix of watching their team! However, I don't think the restriction to only one ODI is anything to do with the place or the atmosphere of the ground. If it was solely down to that, then more fixtures would be played in Karachi. The problem is that the security issues in Karachi seem to be much greater than those at Lahore or Faisalabad. We can only hope that in the future that the security issues currently a concern throughout the world ease in the next few years to allow the PCB to play their cricket wherever they like. I certainly hope that Pakistan will not need to use Sharjah as a 'home ground' again!!!

[Mr Cricket]

Shoiab Starts of with a madien. thats the line except that one wideish bowl but great bowling.

[honestbharani]

Wow, sounds like England are getting thrashed. what is the latest?

[Mr Cricket]

Shoiab bowls a madien to start the begaing. Rana showing lots of swing. Shoiab gave 1 run last over

4-0 England 4 over to start

[Mr Cricket]

Hey coom on the chat room everyone I came no ones there.

[Mr Cricket]

Wow Bad Over By Rana. gave 8 runs here is shoiab

[Mr Cricket]

shoiab akhtar is bowling great and now Matthew Prior wanted a singal ran half way to the pitch Shoiab was there got the bowl and got Prior out [RUN OUT] .

[Mike]

Prior runs himself out backing up too far. Trescothick played the ball down and got in a tangle trying to hop over it. Prior thought Trescothick was coming. Akhtar grabbed the ball on his follow-through, swung and threw the wickets down at the non-strikers end with Prior scrambling to make his ground. "Shambolic" as described by David Lloyd.

[flanflinger]

Tony Hill has made some very odd decisions in the last half-hour.

Starting off with a wide that was so wide it was taken by first slip, but wasn't given; to not warning Shoiab, then warning him, then making a meal of the high-full toss. Now he has just called wide to a reasonalby good ball.

All very bizarre

Tresco out....rot starts here?