Lovely 100 from Roy.
116 from 52 in the end which doesn't tell the full story because he was about a run a ball after 20 deliveries, once Morgan went he was going at about 300%
One of the things that pleased me about the batting performance is that a couple of the top order failed and others stepped up to score runs. That is in stark contrast to the test side.John Westerby in today's Times hints that matchfixing may be involved:QuoteA sport that has been so recently sullied by corruption will inevitably, at times, be watched with varying degrees of scepticism. When the venue is Sharjah and the team in question are Pakistan, a ground and a side that have been implicated in past scandals, such scepticism only tends to intensify.In a week when Chris Cairns, a former international captain, remains on trial in London on charges, which he denies, of perjury after being accused of match-fixing, the issue is prominent in the minds of many onlookers. Michael Vaughan, the former England captain, summed up the frustration neatly yesterday. “I hate the fact we watch cricket with so much suspicion,” he tweeted. “It shouldn’t be that way.”The ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit had noticed no irregularity in betting patterns for the game. Sharjah, though, is still trying to shake off its troubled past. International cricket returned only in 2010 after a seven-year absence after the city’s frequent appearance in Justice Qayyum’s report into corruption.It is these clouds that cause former players to question whether shadows are still being cast. “That’s a sensitive issue and something I’m not going to get involved in,” Eoin Morgan, the England captain, said.I think that the suggestion is a bit harsh and at times the Pakistan bowlers caused our batsmen problems. I wonder if he makes the same suggestion every time that England suffer a similar collapse?
A sport that has been so recently sullied by corruption will inevitably, at times, be watched with varying degrees of scepticism. When the venue is Sharjah and the team in question are Pakistan, a ground and a side that have been implicated in past scandals, such scepticism only tends to intensify.In a week when Chris Cairns, a former international captain, remains on trial in London on charges, which he denies, of perjury after being accused of match-fixing, the issue is prominent in the minds of many onlookers. Michael Vaughan, the former England captain, summed up the frustration neatly yesterday. “I hate the fact we watch cricket with so much suspicion,” he tweeted. “It shouldn’t be that way.”The ICC’s Anti-Corruption Unit had noticed no irregularity in betting patterns for the game. Sharjah, though, is still trying to shake off its troubled past. International cricket returned only in 2010 after a seven-year absence after the city’s frequent appearance in Justice Qayyum’s report into corruption.It is these clouds that cause former players to question whether shadows are still being cast. “That’s a sensitive issue and something I’m not going to get involved in,” Eoin Morgan, the England captain, said.
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