Pakistan v England - 5th ODI

[sanizam]

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Soft dismissal for Solanki... he was batting really well... bad luck mate gone for 49......

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[Chuck Palumbo]

Untimely dismissal there, just when we were looking to accelerate. Now we will have to consolidate for a few overs now.

Solanki done well but needed to be there at the end.

[Occasional Fan]

England 206-9 off their fifty overs - so I was not far off when I said double the score after 30 overs. I see that thirty came from the last two overs, which Pakistan will be irritated about but not unduly concerned by. Should be a fairly easy roll over, surely?

[Occasional Fan]

The commentary has generally been pretty good throughout this series, and well worth the ten dollar fee for anyone who has it to spare and no access to a radio feed. However, they really are letting themselves down on the technical side of the service delivery. The feeds (Real and Windows Media Player) are being streamed at about 16kbps, which is about as low a rate as I've ever seen from anyone, buffering is a real issue, with the signal breaking frequently, today someone has forgotten to switch on the mics at the beginning of both innings - so the opening couple of balls of the Pakistan innings were not broadcast and the England innings coverage began so late that at least one wicket had already gone before they were on air, and the sound quality today is just awful, with the voices having to compete with a loud "motor-boating" effect. I've written to Cricinfo with these comments, and hopefully someone will pay attention to it - I suspect that the service is being run on a shoestring, but the creditable efforts of the commentators are for nought if the technicians can't produce a reliable, listenable signal.

[Crunchy]

England 206-9 off their fifty overs - so I was not far off when I said double the score after 30 overs. I see that thirty came from the last two overs, which Pakistan will be irritated about but not unduly concerned by. Should be a fairly easy roll over, surely?

You obviously havent been watching it , very hard to score quick runs against spinners. I would say it's 50 50.

[flanflinger]

Originally Posted by Occasional Fan

Should be a fairly easy roll over, surely?

no, the TV commentators are all agreed that this is a worse pitch thsn Monday's when Pakistan could only muster 210, whoch England failed to chase. Got a feeling that this will not be a straightforward run chase.

[English_Al]

How infuriating. Yet again we just couldn't do anything batting against the spinners, and now we seem to have reverted back to our previous bowling issues instead of the methods we used 2 days ago. It's screamingly obvious we need to bowl full length, and we just dont seem to be doing it. We also haven't bowled any slower balls and hardly any yorkers yet. Jeez it isn't rocket science. What always bothers me is why Duncan Fletcher cant get a message to the team saying these things???

[Statto]

I havent been watching the match live, is Flintoff injured or is there a better reason for subbing our best bowler?

[Vrock]

Flintoff has an ankle injury and it is mentioned earlier on in this thread. Pakistan are going relatively easily now against Colly and Blackwell, Yasir Hameed is approaching a 50 and he's looking quite good. 85-2.

[English_Al]

Although Beefy is trying to talk up the fact that Pakistan aren't doing any better than England, all they are doing is pacing themselves. The batsmen look in no trouble at all and are just knocking it around to keep with the rate, with plenty of batsmen to come.

What a depressing trip to Pakistan this has been after 18 months of superb play culminating in the Ashes. One one-day win from 3 tests and 5 one dayers. Maybe we are still mentally shot after the summer? Having said that, whatever we've done, Pakistan have had an answer, often with some brilliant play.