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Team changes:- Collingwood for Strauss & Plunkett for Giles.

England won the toss and decided to bat.

The score currently stands at 116-3

England were cruising at 101-0 before lunch but since then Shoaib (chucker) Malik has picked up the wickets of Vaughan,Bell & Trecothick. Yet again 2 of Englands batsmen get out using the dreaded sweep shot.  :?

looks like a lost cause already after a good start

Why Malik is allowed to bowl cos his action will be reviewed in Oz is beyond me?.  :?

did he chuck any?

His bowling action looks suspect so probably.  :|

We win the toss and we still fuck it up, 205-5.  :evil:

Bad to worse, 225-6, not even teh close yet, 350 from here would be a monumental achievement, anyone know what Plunketts batting is like?

Can someone tell the team to stop fucking sweeping the ball.  :evil:

i did, i phoned vaughan but he said 'who is this' the nerve of some people.

hope its just a livelier pitch this time and we are doing better than we think! :-))(

I always thought he was a nice bloke aswell.  :(

what a shit series! England = Crap utter Crap! how the hell did we win the ashes?

I agree Rich. What we must do is drop Pieterson, Ian Bellend and Freddie Flintoff, they're all fucking shit.

PS. I'm only joking cricket fans.

We are 288 all out,Colly made 96 :( .We really should have made more,we gave at least 4 wickets away. I think they got complacent and thought they would make 400 at least.
Anyway Pakistan are 12-2 at lunch,Hoggy Hoggy,Hoggy :)

we wont win this match 58-2 last i heard  :(

69-3 Plunkett just got Butt,well done young man :)
Here comes the imperious Inzamam though :-))(

let's knock him over then! come on plunkett show your worth a place in this side!

Inzaman's settling in with Yousuf.... :(
112-3

Not looking so good now, need a wicket flurry Inzys settled down now, like trying to shift dry weetabix off a bowl, near impossible.

Inzy's Injured - Retired Hurt for 34 - oh the poor lad  :soapy tit wank:

Hurt his ickle hand after being lightly brushed by a Stevey Harmison slow ball  :soapy tit wank:   :shock:   :soapy tit wank:

So we're as good as 158 for 4 now (officially 158-3)

The only problem being that Yousuf is still there!  :evil:

Harmison has just got Raza out.  :D

Seems Harmy has been bowling well,he just hasn't had any luck.185-4 at the end of the day,Shoaib Akhtar has been sent in as night watch man.
It sounds like Inzamam will be okay to bat tomorrow,he's not broken anything.

quite a dissapointing day as they were at 12-2.

Yep and then the new ball got old and stopped swwwinnnging[does that convey movement to you :wink: ]Yousuf was dropped by Fred on 16 as well,he is still in on 80 odd :(
I think we fucked it up yesterday really, it was massively dissapointing after being 100 odd with no loss of wickets to go and throw four wickets away [and lose the rest obviously].Unless we can strike early and get a few wickets cheaply it will probably be a draw.

Our batting hasn't been up to it all series and that is far too low a score to win a test match batting first.

shame about colly though, but was a stupid shot.

Its not looking good,Pakistan are 350-5 with Inzy still to come in and Yosuf nearing 150.They tried to put a positive spin on our position on TMS,comparing it to the Multan test,but with all the time that is going to be lost and Pakistan batting with ease,i doubt we are going to win, a draw at best is on the cards i fear :( .

So Inzy can come back in again and resume his innings from 35* ?

The Glory days are over! .. we have a tough tour of India .. home v Pakistan and Sri Lanka will be hard .. then Aussies away .. we will be about 4 or 5 in world after all that!

Fats mate,don't be silly,Pakistan is a hell of a hard place to go to and win a test series.We've still got  a good team,but we have not batted well enough in this series and Pakistan have played well.If we had held our nerve in Multan we would have won but we didn't :( Hopefully in India we will not make the same mistakes,we've still got a team that can do the business :)

Im confident we will roll Pakistan over at Home, the ptiches in Pakistan favour the Home batting side which they have taken with both hands. Our pitches on the other hand will favour the swing bowling of Hoggard and Jones.

 :agree: Poor old Fats sounds like he has already given up on the England boys who he will never see win again :wink:

Pakistan were 636-8 when they declared, because Inzy got out on 96.We are 5-1,Tres got out,i'm just hoping we can hold out for the draw but its unlikely :( .

no im not being that down about things ... but we have been truly absymal on this tour

Yes i would agree,we should have won in Multan :( .
I just hope with losing this series that it doesn't effect the England teams chances of winning team of the year in the BBC sports awards :wink:

Shot Vaughaner

And we only got those wickets because they were playing it like a 20/20 game.

i dont hold much hope for day 5 tbh. it looks bleak. collingwood and bell have already got runs so theyll be gone in the morning and then KP and Freddie will go cheaply as usual

don't worry rich, plunkett will hit his maiden century!  :beers:

201-2 at lunch  to 248 all out  :cry:

thought we had a chance at lunchtime of a draw.

Only five of our batsmen lasted more than 6 balls. Extras were our third top score. :shock:

Not looking good for India.

I could not fucking believe it when i got up and looked on the text to see the headline "Brilliant Pakistan crush England!"  :evil:

When i went to bed we were looking like we had no problems whatsoever, Bell & Collingwood knocking it about and keeping out Kaneria.

Time to sort their heads out and get back to winning ways.  :|

i shouldnt worry too much. i still think we are a much better side than Pakistan. just wait till they step foot on English soil next summer! as for the loss i put it down to cockeyness and big headed attitudes of the players as well as injuries (even though that shouldnt really be an exuse) but a full strength team would have won 3-0 simple as that

Oh yeah i still think we'll spank them at Home.  :beers:

and i cant wait to see Shoaib's face when it happens!  :D