The International Cricket Thread

[olaftab]

Match is wonderfully balanced with slight edge for England.

[tomd2103]

Match is wonderfully balanced with slight edge for England.

The worry for me in this series is Babar Azam.  I think he is capable of producing match winning knocks and think we certainly need to see the back of him quite early tomorrow. 

[Villan For Life]

A great performance with the ball with Pakistan losing their last 8 wickets for 60. England are now pushing along nicely with the lead already almost 130. This game will be over before close on day 3.

[manic-road]

A great day so far for England, hope we can bat the rest of the day out to build a big lead.

[UK Redsox]

Unfortunate choice/timing of photograph, or is Robinson still a bit of a nob ?

[cdbearsfan]

I think he's just celebrating. Wouldn't read too much into that.

[Steve67]

We still need another 100 or so to bat Pakistan out of the game.  Hope this tails wags a bit in the morning, definitely ours to lose now.

[Lsvilla]

Unfortunate choice/timing of photograph, or is Robinson still a bit of a nob ?

Not seeing anything wrong there IMO. It's international sport.

[paul_e]

We still need another 100 or so to bat Pakistan out of the game.  Hope this tails wags a bit in the morning, definitely ours to lose now.

On this pitch I think we might have enough already but given how much time there is I think we'll bat until lunch if we can.

[Steve67]

We still need another 100 or so to bat Pakistan out of the game.  Hope this tails wags a bit in the morning, definitely ours to lose now.

On this pitch I think we might have enough already but given how much time there is I think we'll bat until lunch if we can.

I agree Paul.  Hopefully one of the two in now stays around and anchors the tail.  It would be lovely to watch an hour of Stokes at his attacking best though!

[Steve67]

Don't want to curse the lad but Harry Brook looks a very, very fine player.  Looks like he has a massive amount of class and seems to have learnt from giving his wicket away in the first innings.  Reminds me of Pietersen.

[Lsvilla]

I think that the plan will be to get Brooks to his hundred - by which time the lead would be over 300 - and then hopefully him and Stokes and the tail can have some fun as we'd likely have enough. Easy on paper (or iPhone) of course.

[PaulWinch again]

Well Pakistan have made a cracking start. Not panic stations yet, but need to start making inroads.

[Villan For Life]

Well Pakistan have made a cracking start. Not panic stations yet, but need to start making inroads.

It’s certainly game on, we need a breakthrough soon though. Imam may not bat, he’s at a hospital having a scan on a hamstring injury so we should be able to capitalise.

[Villan For Life]

And Rizwan gets cleaned up by Jimmy