Pakistan v England, 1st T20, Dubai, 23 February, 2012

So a sweep for Engulund in the sh!ttest form of cricket as well??

What about THIS one, h?

I am holding the smoke in so hard on this one that my bag is producing perfect smoke rings

furriner wrote:As good a place as any: Geraint Jones is playing the 20:20 WC for Papua New Guniea....turns out he was born there.

Y'all prolly already know, but it's worth repeating.

Aye, it's part of the reason he's got that godawful accent.

Pakistan have selected a good team today! Three youngsters have been given a chance

England: 1 Pietersen, 2 Kieswetter (wk), 3 Bopara, 4 Morgan, 5 Bairstow, 6 Buttler, 7 Patel, 8 Broad (capt), 9 Swann, 10 Dernbach, 11 Finn

Pakistan: 1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Awais Zia 3 Asad Shafiq, 4 Umar Akmal (wk), 5 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Shahid Afridi, 7 Shoaib Malik, 8 Hammad Azam, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Saeed Ajmal, 11 Junaid Khan


Looking forward to seeing Awais Zia (the new Boom Boom) and Hammad Azam.

For England, I'm looking forward to the likelihood of seeing Bairstow versus spin and how he's improved.

Why can't we try an all-B England team?

Bopara, Bairstow, Buttler, Briggs, Broad, Brezzylad, Bellylaugh, Blackwell, Brown, Batty .... and Ballance.

Bloody World Beaters.

Awais Zia

He did well - fearless and ferocious.
Cameo 18 off 10 ...

Basil Brush gone for 7.

Blimey, Swanner's wrecking them to bits. All their big hitters are going.

Time to pension Afridi off?

Why, I thought he was to be fed some Cerelac?

He can't be much older than 20 - plenty of time for him to mature.

taipan wrote:Time to pension Afridi off?

Why? His T20 bowling is exemplary. His batting is a bonus.

Pak looked dead at 73/5, 144 is a good score I reckon.

Bugger.
Aye ... Finn was shite ... Brezzy in next match.
Dernbach has to be the best death bowler around these days.

Good game, this. Buttler goes, over-improvising. It's a good test for the younger lads.

Poor finishing by England, yes.

A choke. No.

Really good overs 17-20, top bowling. Gul is top in those situations. Ajmal's over was really good and Junaid's was excellent. Thought 144 was a decent total.

Good recovery by PAK.

KP was the big wicket. He was looking awesome, no-one else really got to grips with the pitch on either side.

Looks a fair win by the Wackies. At 5-73 after 11 things looked ordinary, but Shoaib Malik looks like he flung some dung. And you'd think with chasing Engulund at 4-121 with 3 overs to go, they'd poop it in.

Good to see some close rubbish cricket games in recent days, instead of the usual one-sided cakewalk.

Pakistan were 15 runs short and England should have won it with ease considering they only needed 35 of the last 5 with 7 wickets in hand.

Gul is an amazing T20 bowler.

Why T.F. bowl first in a T20 under lights starting at 8 pm local time ??????????????????

England always chose to BAT first after winning the toss in the ODI's ... so WhatTF has changed?

Post a score - then protect it ..........
Dickwads.